Oekraïne; varkensgrieppaniek en politiek

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A cocktail of three flu viruses are reported to have mutated into a single pneumonic plague, which it is believed may be far more dangerous than swine flu […..] A doctor in Western Ukraine who did not want to be named, said:” We have carried out post mortems on two victims and found their lungs are as black as charcoal.
“They look like they have been burned. It’s terrifying.”

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Wat is er aan de hand?

Het ziet er naar uit dat de griep in Oekraïne flink toeslaat. Ook ProMed-mail bevestigd het aantal geïnfecteerden en doden.

Influenza pandemic (H1N1) 2009 (97): Ukraine (LV)

Is het een nieuw, gevaarlijker, virus of een combinatie van virussen? Laten we eerst maar even afwachten.

Since the start of the epidemic in Ukraine (30 Oct 2009) 62 486 people, including 24 452 children, sought medical care in the Donetsk Oblast, and 2815 patients have been hospitalized. There were 3 fatalities and tissue samples are being tested for etiological diagnosis. The results of express diagnostic tests show that the majority of flu-like diseases are caused by influenza A virus, however only 3 [pandemic?] influenza A/H1N1 have been confirmed.

Influenza and acute respiratory viral infections morbidity overview –
Ukraine (Donetsk Oblast)

Britse onderzoekers gaan spijkers met koppen slaan.

Tot zover de fearmongering. Want dat is het. Een dodental van 300 op 1.000.000+ besmettingen is natuurlijk niet ongewoon. Waarom is er dan zoveel aandacht voor de Oekraïnse pandemie?

Ingegeven door de usual suspects. Bijvoorbeeld Jane Burgermeister’s theflu.com. Leest u hier even een soort samenvatting. Komen die sproeivliegtuigjes en Baxter laboratorium verhalen:

Suspected Hemorrhagic Pneumonia Outbreak Hits Ukraine

Voor dat ik het vergeet. Er is natuurlijk ook een wetenschappelijke ziener opgedoken die de uitbraak in Oekraïne al in augustus voorspeld heeft. Joseph Moshe (MOSSAD Microbiologist) is natuurlijk opgepakt en KALTGESTELD.

“Swine flu vaccine is bioweapon”

Nu even een beetje ontnuchterende vraag mijnerzijds. Het zou toch niets te maken hebben met de aankomende verkiezingen in Oekraïne?

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who is running second at this point in the Jan. 17 presidential elections, made a public show of meeting — in a surgical mask — deliveries of the anti-flu medication Tamiflu at the Kiev and Lviv airports.
Others called this show-boating. “Ukrainian authorities are using the hysteria over the flu outbreak to distract citizens’ attention from the country’s economic and social problems,” said presidential candidate Sergey Tigipko, a former member of Tymoshenko’s team who is now running against her. “Flu is a serious threat, but in Ukraine they have contrived to turn it into a political tool used to distract public attention from real problems.”

Swine flu panic — and politics — hit Ukraine (Even de pop-up afwachten en wegklikken.)

Het zou niet de eerste keer zijn dat gezondheids issues een belangrijke rol spelen in de verkiezingen in Oekraïne. Herrinnert u zich deze nog?

Moreover, the campaign has been rife with scandals. Yushchenko’s opponents have even claimed that the dioxin poisoning during the 2004 presidential race was fabricated to help him win the election. For some reason, law enforcement officials have never discovered who poisoned him, where it happened, when, why or under whose orders it was done. But it seemed as though everyone believed unconditionally that Yushchenko was poisoned by his adversaries. But the claims that the poisoning was staged are also intended to weaken Tymoshenko as well. After all, she was Yushchenko’s comrade-in-arms during the Orange Revolution, and his poisoning was one of the main factors that led to his victory in the presidential race. If the Orange Revolution had not succeeded, Tymoshenko would not have become prime minister.

Ukraine’s High Stakes

Een krachtig optreden van de zittende president staat natuurlijk garant voor goede verkiezingsuitslagen.