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I don't think anyone is releasing the virus, it's just the normal 20 year pandemic cycle.
Fragile Care Worsened Swine Flu in Ukraine
By ELLEN BARRY
Published: November 13, 2009
LVIV, Ukraine — When patients began arriving in Vyacheslav Bonder’s intensive care unit two weeks ago, their lungs so saturated with blood that they could barely gasp, the only thing he could compare it to was a field hospital in wartime. As soon as he hooked one patient up to a ventilator, a second and third would appear in the doorway.
By that time, hospitals were clearing wards to make room for a wave of pneumonia cases, and people were crowding into drugstores to buy whatever they could get their hands on. Rumors were circulating that the government had ordered the city aerially sprayed with chemicals, to cure Lviv (pronounced luh-VEEVE) of disease or, in a grimmer version, to exterminate its carriers.
The panic lifted almost as quickly as it had arrived, and the World Health Organization announced Friday that the swine flu illnesses and deaths so far in Ukraine — 265 fatalities nationwide, with 87 in the Lviv region — were statistically no worse than those in other countries. But what happened here has drawn rapt attention from experts bracing for the epidemic to hit Europe, and especially the fragile health care systems of countries of the former Soviet Union.
Early findings are that serious cases mounted because the sick avoided hospitalization until their illness was dangerously advanced, stockpiles of Tamiflu were locked in centralized locations and the supply of ventilators fell short, said David Mercer, of the World Health Organization’s European regional office.
“It’s not like this caught us by surprise; we’ve known for months that this was coming,” said Dr. Mercer, who heads the office’s communicable disease unit. “We’ve been working very hard on plans, but sometimes the battle plan doesn’t survive the first contact with the enemy. We’ve had to change a lot of things on the fly.”
With the worst of the health care crisis here past, many in Ukraine’s western provinces are trying to puzzle out what led to it. Doctors blame the news media and politicians for spreading fear and misinformation. The mayors of Ternopyl and Lviv, which reported their first deaths from atypical pneumonia on Oct. 12 and 19, have complained that the federal epidemiological service refused to act without laboratory confirmation that the virus was present, delaying serious measures by nearly two weeks.
Others point to more remote causes, among them the desperate poverty of Ukraine’s health care system 20 years after the Soviet Union collapsed.
In Lviv, senior doctors earn a monthly salary of 1,500 hryvnas, approximately $184, pay so low that many physicians leave their practices to work as home health aides in Western Europe. Though health care is officially free, patients typically pay a stream of cash bribes for services as large as X-rays and as small as blood tests or linen changes.
Ukrainians rely heavily on home remedies, and that is what they did for the third and fourth weeks of October, resorting to garlic and lemons and waiting so long to check into hospitals that by the time they did, many were beyond treatment.
“Medicine is underdeveloped in Ukraine, and people don’t believe in it — it’s a vicious circle,” said Oleh Berezuk, a physician who heads the mayor’s administration in Lviv. “In a mature country, if you get sick you will not say, ‘Nobody can help me.’ ”
Now, the doctors at Lviv’s main pulmonological hospital have the shaky good humor of people who have come through a crisis, though portions of their hospital are clammy and unlighted (“to scare the viruses,” one doctor joked), and some of their breathing equipment dates from Soviet times.
Two weeks ago, though, doctors here thought they were looking at a medical mystery: the deaths of healthy young people — not the drunks or addicts they usually see — with lungs so inflamed that they resembled liver. Dr. Bonder recalls the numb realization that his ordinary protocol for treating pneumonia was having no impact at all.
“You would come in to work and the next time you looked at your watch it was midnight,” said Dr. Bonder, who heads the intensive care unit. “You didn’t even think what could happen next.”
Nurses and doctors were falling ill at an alarming rate, in part because of shortages of gloves and disinfectant. Irina Mykychak, the assistant director of Lviv’s regional medical department, said around 3,500 medical professionals fell ill, of whom 300 were hospitalized and 4 died.
When they did suspect H1N1, physicians were stuck in a Catch-22. Though the government had stockpiled Tamiflu in preparation for an outbreak they expected later in the year, the drug was available only at the region’s single infectious disease station — and only with proof that a patient had H1N1. Obtaining proof was a three-to-four-day process that required that samples be sent to Kiev, said Lyubomir Rak, the hospital’s director.
Nadia Rudnitskaya, chief of pulmonology, was carefully putting the pieces together. On Oct. 27, she examined the body of a 32-year-old man — the latest in a series of four deaths from four parts of western Ukraine that, as she put it, “shouldn’t have happened.” Dr. Rudnitskaya gathered her samples together and appealed urgently to Kiev.
Right then the logjam broke: The next day the governor ordered a quarantine and released the emergency stockpile of Tamiflu to clinics and hospitals. A day after that, Prime Minister Yulia V. Tymoshenko announced on television that the virus had “reached epidemic threshold,” and all of Ukraine was talking about H1N1.
“It was a riddle,” Dr. Rudnitskaya said. “There was an answer.”
For some, it came too late. Marta and Nazar Martin insisted that their mother, Galina, 43, check into a hospital on Oct. 23, after her cough worsened into shallow, labored panting. A dentist, she had been treating herself with intravenous antibiotics and flu medications, as she had always done before.
“No one knew there was an epidemic,” said Marta, 18. “Nothing was said, not at work, not on television.”
The hospital offered no answers either. Doctors first prescribed antibiotics for bronchitis, then punctured Ms. Martin’s spinal column to test for meningitis and encephalitis, then gave her an M.R.I. to rule out a brain tumor. With every new prescription, her children scraped up the money and set off to find a pharmacy where it was available, Marta said.
“A poor person would just die,” she said. “They will not start a medication until you pay for it.”
On Oct. 29, when information about H1N1 flooded the region, doctors and nurses showed up wearing masks for the first time, Nazar said. He watched incredulously; his mother had already declined so much that she was “half a corpse,” he said. After she died, the next day, samples from her body were sent to be tested for swine flu.
Her children estimate they paid 35,000 hryvna, or about $4,300, in cash payments to nurses and doctors during the week she spent in the hospital. The more they hear about swine flu, the angrier they get.
“Why didn’t they take measures before then?” said Nazar Martin, 19. “I’m interested in knowing what they were thinking. They took this seriously only when people began to die, when the death statistics began to rise. Where were they before then?”
“It’s on their conscience,” he said, of the medical authorities. “They should have done something to prevent it.”
Originally posted by ecoparity
So I thought, if there really is an issue with the vaccine maybe there would be reports. I saw a forum post claiming that several women had lost pregnancies after taking the vaccine, where can I obtain proof of this?
It just so happens the government maintains a database for reporting "Adverse Vaccine Reactions" - as mandated by Congress.
Nurses, Drs, drug reps even patients can report adverse reactions to vaccines which are stored in a database anyone can access.
So I went and pulled down the data for this year: Vaccine Adverse Reaction Database
Wow, there's a lot of data and you have to look at two different spreadsheets sometimes to see which vaccine did it. Scary, scary stuff though.
So what did I find?
Almost all the flu shot reactions are soreness, pain in the arm where the shot was injected. I only found one major incident involving a soldier and the nasal vaccine but the Dr says the event was not from the vaccine but from a pre-existing neurological condition.
OK, well it should be easy to find all those mis-carriages, right?
Nope, not a single one people.
Now, GARDASIL on the other hand is one scary as hell vaccine. There are several reports of lost babies from that one by women who "became pregnant" soon after taking it. Even the other reactions are pretty scary and there are TONS of reports.
Now I know what people are going to say, government database and all that but there are some pretty "serious" reports in there for every vaccine you can imagine and anyone can call in a report, it's not just for medical professionals.
I actually expected to find those miscarriages but as usual, the only source is a forum on the Internet and not even one report made the database. Anyway, enjoy the reading - you may never take a shot again afterwards...
So I thought, if there really is an issue with the vaccine maybe there would be reports. I saw a forum post claiming that several women had lost pregnancies after taking the vaccine, where can I obtain proof of this?
Now, GARDASIL on the other hand is one scary as hell vaccine. There are several reports of lost babies from that one by women who "became pregnant" soon after taking it. Even the other reactions are pretty scary and there are TONS of reports.
Originally posted by ecoparity
Polysorbate 80 has been used in make up, shampoo and even ice cream for quite a while now.
Is it bad for you? Probably but if so then its one of many on a long list of such things in just about every product sold today.
Originally posted by AaronTheSpeaker
When the pandemic goes full swing this winter, is it still considered a conspiracy?
I'm sure the disinformants can think of some sort of spin to put on it then.
However, by then we'll all be under martial law, refined to our homes, and rationed food and water
7. Question motives. Twist or amplify any fact which could so taken to imply that the opponent operates out of a hidden personal agenda or other bias. This avoids discussing issues and forces the accuser on the defensive.
Originally posted by whattheh
Here is a post on ATS about who is providing the information on the CDC website.
A company called Vangent, who is a defence contractor for all branches of the military, the Naval Research center, several Medical insurance companies, and Glaxo Smith Kline, the second largest drug company by revenue and a company who is trying to get more adjuvants approved.
www.abovetopsecret.com...
I think this is more about money than anyhting else (I relly hope anyway).
Notice on the CDC website how they stopped tracking just H1N1 and started counting all flu and pneumonia as swine flu. This was because this so called pandemic was going away. As of August 30th when they changed the tracking then it started to get worse.
They had committed to billions of dollars in vaccines and had to make it look like it was still out there to save face.
Then too if you are not approved to sell the vaccine in the USA you leak a bird flu strain in Europe to spread a mutated version as you have a USA patent for vaccines including that one.
Scary stuuf either way.
During autopsies, what did the lungs look like? Were they really black, which gave rise to so much talk of pulmonary plague?
No, they are not black … This is not pneumonic plague. It’s all nonsense. Pneumonic plague has a very different morphology. We have, for example, 60 thousand people who became sick and 23 have died. With pulmonary plague, we would now have a mortality rate of 59 thousand …
Professor, you said earlier that the virus, from which many people have died – is a mixture of types of parainfluenza and influenza A/H1N1. How do you cure this disease?
The question of how to treat this virus is not up to me. I am a pathologist. I just found out what it is and made an exact diagnosis. It is important to provide the correct treatment based on diagnosis.