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Topic: Mysterious Flu That's Now Causing Mass DeathsPosted By: Albert
Subject: Mysterious Flu That's Now Causing Mass Deaths
Date Posted: February 25 2016 at 4:41am
Thanks Diligent for the heads-up.
The Mysterious Flu That's Now Causing Mass Deaths in Syria
Reports of a ‘ http://www.raqqa-sl.com/en/?p=1665 - mysterious ’ virus have been reported in a city north of Raqaa known as Tel Abyad city.
The virus has left many unwell residents in the northern city and trickled down to Western Raqaa as well.
As of 3 February 2016, 20 people had died from the virus, the symptoms appeared at fist to be similar to influenza.
Activist group, http://www.raqqa-sl.com/en/?p=1665 - Raqaa is Being Slaughtered Silently reported that distress signals were sent to various medical and humanitarian agencies but had not been answered.
Other http://www.syriadeeply.org/articles/2016/02/9475/swine-bird-flu-rise-syria/ - reports have cited that bird flu and swine flu are on the rise in http://www.neonnettle.com/tags/syria - Syria , which explains the virus and its flu like symptoms.
Swine
flu deaths in Tartus, Murhardh and Latakia were recorded, the first
being a 26 year old doctor by the name of Tony Saba at the Tishreen
Hospital in Latakia.
http://www.neonnettle.com/tags/government - Government acknowledgement
of the disease however has not been forthcoming and what is more
worrying is that in addition bird flu has also been found in parts of
Syria such as the Northeastern town of Qamishli and across the border in
Turkish towns such as Urfa, including the death of many birds in South
Qamishli bird farms.
In http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/01/22/syrian-refugees-alberta_n_9051268.html - Canada ,
newly arrived Syrian refugees showed signs of flu when 11 of them
reached the Edmonton Catholic Social Services, although apparently with
no pre-existing conditions.
Even while the Government play down
numbers, this has not stopped panic amongst Syrian residents and parents
have resorted to keeping their kids home from school and taking
over-priced flu vaccines they believe are specifically for Swine flu but
are not.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/641745/Swine-flu-KILL-OFF-ISIS-Syria-Iraq-Daesh-warning-H1N1-spreads - IS fighters
are apparently in a panic as they fear the virus may wipe out its
fighter so are handing out leaflets and appealing for doctors to come to
the region.
http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pandemic-flu/Pages/Introduction.aspx - Swine flu
is very similar to ordinary strands of flu but have more severe side
effects, however it tends to affect more vulnerable persons: children,
elderly, pregnant women and those with pre-existing health conditions,
to the point of fatality.
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/avian_influenza/en/ - Bird or avian flu
rarely affects human as it is passed bird to bird but of course there
have been cases of humans being infected even leading to death.
TAP
– Wars provide great opportunities for mass killing of civilians or
military forces by means of vaccine and other medical interventions.
Gulf War Syndrome was a recent example. Spanish flu in 1918/1919 was
an earlier operation of the depopulationists. Those who stayed home,
survived. Those who sought medical assistance, or went to hospital
didn’t.
Posted By: Technophobe
Date Posted: February 25 2016 at 10:12am
Several hypotheses jump to mind:
1, A new strain of flu, jumped into humans from "bushmeat" (I know it is an African term, but it is appropriate in an area where people are eating anything they can find) bad news!
2, A nasty, but well known, strain of flu which has been rendered extra deadly because its hosts are starving, sick, stressed and exhausted.
3, Chemical attack
4, Biological attack.
So far there is insufficient data to form a theory but........
Spot on boss, it does need watching.
------------- How do you tell if a politician is lying? His lips or pen are moving.
Posted By: Albert
Date Posted: February 26 2016 at 7:58pm
Unknown virus infects dozens of civilians in the countryside of Raqqa
70 km north of Raqaa there is Tel
Abyad city , which is dominated by Kurdish protection forces YPG in the
middle of the last year, in partnership with Army of the Syria
Democratic forces they carried out an ethnic displacement for its people
to be under the facto authority in the absence of services and the
exposition to various violations.
during the last week there was news about the spread of an unknown virus
led to the injury of dozens of residents of the city and its
countryside before it spreads southward to reveal new cases in the west
countryside of Raqqa, where the progression of the disease to cause the
death of about twenty civilians so far.
And the symptoms of the disease is similar to the symptoms of influenza
as a viral infection spread from person to another easily through
inhalation and aimed all age groups, as characterized by sudden high
body temperature and the incidence of cough (usually dry), headache,
pain in muscles and joints, nausea and severe (malaise), sore throat,
runny nose and, while the cases of normal seasonal influenza recover
within a week without the need for the development of medical care, but
the diagnosed cases ended in death, mostly unexplained.
Infection:
Seasonal influenza spreads easily and can break into schools, special
care centers,homes or commercial buildings and cities, so when the
infected coughs he will secrete spray rack of infection and will expose
any one will inhaled for the risk of infection, as the virus can spread
through contaminated hands, and to prevent it should be covered the
mouths and noses with a tissue when coughing and washing hands
regularly.
Prevention:
the prevention of this disease, “inexplicable” is to avoid direct
contact with infected and isolate them in addition to the intensive care
of hygiene and not to approach the gatherings, and for children they
must wear medical masks and take the oral temperature and not to
approach the foci of infection.
Against this background, local activists
sent distress calls to medical and humanitarian organizations and
appealed to send medical teams to lend a helping hand and provide
appropriate treatment, but without any action or response from any side
or party .
Posted By: EdwinSm,
Date Posted: February 26 2016 at 9:54pm
I found an English version of the pamphlet that IS/ISIS/Daesh has produced in the following blog. It seems that a lot of the initial information has come from "Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently" which seems to have a record of good reporting.
Blog at: http://https://thoughtfrontblog.wordpress.com/2016/02/21/isis-advice-for-swine-flu-pray/ - http://https://thoughtfrontblog.wordpress.com/2016/02/21/isis-advice-for-swine-flu-pray/
Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: February 26 2016 at 10:46pm
In recent weeks, Daesh has suffered a new blow in its attempt to govern: swine flu. As reported by the courageous journalists of http://www.raqqa-sl.com/en/?p=1665 - Although there seems to be no conclusive evidence that the illness is swine flu, nevertheless both RIBSS and https://halummu.wordpress.com/2016/02/12/swine-influenza/ - ISIS itself is reporting it as such. (In the interest of full disclosure, it bears noting that the latter is using WordPress, the same blogging tool hosting Thought Front.)
Daesh, not surprisingly, is concerned. Reportedly they are distributing leaflets in their territory instructing the populace on steps to take to avoid contracting flu. They also circulated an infographic in their propaganda channels, which I presume has roughly the same advice.
------------- We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. ~Albert Einstein
Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: February 26 2016 at 10:50pm
Story reminds me of http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-25/20-dead-200-hospitalized-after-reports-us-lab-leaks-deadly-virus-ukraine - http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-25/20-dead-200-hospitalized-after-reports-us-lab-leaks-deadly-virus-ukraine
Amid the so-called "ceasefire" in Ukraine, yet https://dninews.com/article/dpr-defense-ministry-situation-report-22012016 - ongoing shelling in many regions , the https://dninews.com/article/deadly-virus-leaked-us-laboratory-donbass-dpr-army-and-intelligence - Donbass news agency reports that more than 20 Ukrainian solders have died and over 200 soldiers are hospitalized after an apparent leak of a deadly virus called "California Flu" from a US lab near the city of Kharkov.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZVAuAMVeH0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZVAuAMVeH0 and %3cspan%20style= - http://wtfrly.com/2015/10/20/white-house-serena-shim-murder-us-reporter-isis/#.VtFyCJzhDIU -
Posted By: Albert
Date Posted: February 29 2016 at 4:35am
The reason why I tend to think this is legit and they have some sort of bird flu outbreak underway is because bird flu is so off the grid these days that swine flu is the one commonly used for propaganda, and not bird flu. The bleeding gums is also an accurate description. Something is happening over there.
People Die from ‘Bird Flu’ in IS-Held Areas of Eastern Syria
IS has urged people to visit hospitals and use medical masks to protect themselves against the disease
4 days ago
People die from bird flu in IS-held areas of Eastern…
DEIR AL-ZOUR — The Islamic State
(IS) is concerned over the various cases of ‘bird flu’ reported across
the areas under its control in Syria.
According to the Syrian Observatory for
Human Rights (SOHR), the jihadist group is now urging civilians in the
areas near Deir al-Zour, Eastern Syria, to frequently visit hospitals
and receive medical masks to protect themselves against the the bird
flu.
The SOHR quoted sources inside IS-held
territories that the extremist group is deeply concerned over the
infection’s spreading from patients to its jihadists.
There are reports received by the
London-based organisation revealing that four members of one family were
transferred to Al-Mayadin town in the south of Deir al-Zour last week
as they showed symptoms of vomiting, nose and gums bleeding, blood mixed
with phlegm, high fever and coughing.
The patients later died due to lack of medicines, medical staff and experience in dealing with such serious diseases.
However, these cases of infection and
death are not the only cases in the IS territories. People are
reportedly concerned over the spread of the bird flu amid the absence of
necessary medical care inside IS territories.
Posted By: Albert
Date Posted: February 29 2016 at 4:42am
Swine and Bird Flu on the Rise Across Syria
Deaths
related to swine and bird flu are beginning to emerge across Syria.
While the government has remained tight-lipped about the scale of the
issue, state-controlled media outlets are finally starting to release
figures for cases across the country
Wael
recovered from swine flu last week after being treated at the al-Bassel
Hospital in Tartus. “I was very close to death,” he said. “If I had not
made it to the hospital in time and received the right treatment, I
would be dead by now,” he added. Because of the rising number of swine
flu cases, according to Wael, nobody is allowed into the al-Bassel
Hospital unless they are wearing a face mask.
The
disease has reached the nearby province of Latakia as well; the first
death due to swine flu occurred in a 26-year-old doctor named Tony Saba
who worked at the Tishreen Military Hospital in Latakia. Saba’s friends
have questioned medical and media reports claiming the swine flu virus
causes deaths only in old people, children and those with compromised
immune systems. They also confirmed that Saba did not have any chronic
diseases or underlying immunodeficiency.
Government Cover-Up as Disease Spreads
Abu Jafar, who owned a dairy shop in Dahiyat Tishreen in Latakia, died last week at the National Hospital in the city.
The
doctor who was overseeing his case said that the primary cause of Abu
Jafar’s death was "viral pneumonia,” which is considered the most
serious complication of swine flu. The hospital administration, however,
tested all of his family members for the virus, and asked them not to
publish the cause of their son’s death.
Despite
the secrecy surrounding the number of cases, anonymous medical sources
have confirmed that swine flu led to the death of at least one person in
the city of Muhardeh in the Hama Governorate, and that there have been
some 20 other critical cases throughout the city.
What
makes the situation even more serious is the possible spread of bird
flu in the city of Qamishli in northeastern Syria. Many residents are
scared, particularly after one person at the National Hospital died
after displaying symptoms very similar to bird flu, coupled with the
news that many birds in South Qamishli’s bird farms have recently died.
Rozana’s
correspondent in Qamishli spoke with Akhteen Asaad, a doctor in the
city’s local hospital, who said that six people had died in the
hospital, though he refused to specify whether the cause of death was
bird flu or pneumonia. According to the same doctor, up until this
point, the hospital administration has not sent any samples to Damascus
for laboratory testing and disease identification.
Bird
flu has reached Tal Abyad in northern Syria as well. Many sources said
there have been 15 cases in the city, and Rozana's correspondent on the
Turkish border, Ayman Bakkour, confirmed that two Syrians had died from
swine flu in the Turkish city of Urfa.
“The
symptoms of swine flu are the same as those of the common flu, except
that they are much more intense. They start with a high fever, from 39
to 40 degrees Celsius [102 to 104 Fahrenheit], accompanied by fatigue,
body aches, cough, lack of appetite and nausea," said Fatima, a
laboratory physician working in Syria. "The symptoms soon intensify,
causing difficulty in breathing, confusion and, in some cases, pneumonia
and severe heart and respiratory failure.”
Fatima
said she was shocked that the Syrian government's Health Directorates
are still forcing state secrecy on the issue, “even though laboratory
tests have confirmed five cases in the Assad Hospital, and six cases in
the National Hospital in Latakia, in addition to other cases in private
hospitals.”
The State Plays Down the Numbers
The
Syrian government's Ministry of Health and its directorates do not
admit to the growing danger of swine flu, insisting that cases in Syria
do not exceed normal numbers. However, last Monday, the state-owned
Tishreen newspaper published an article about the spread of swine flu in
Syria.
According to the newspaper’s sources,
swine flu is thought to be behind six deaths in the city of Tartus as of
last Sunday, January 31. Additionally, 25 people are suspected of
having the flu in the al-Bassel Hospital, two of whom are in a critical
condition. According to the same article, there were nine cases in
al-Qadmous, three in al-Sheik Badr and one in Banias – all in Tartus –
and one case in the town of Dreikeesh in Latakia. The newspaper
attributed the high number of deaths and illnesses to the lack of
specialized treatment facilities in the province.
The
newspaper even revealed that a high-level crisis management group was
formed in the city of Tartus, which was charged with keeping the disease
under control and distributing vaccines to all public hospitals in the
relatively small city.
Exploiting People’s Fear
Ammar
is a close observer of social networking sites and very interested in
the "pandemic of influenza,” as he calls it. “Since the regime revealed
this much information, it should be clear to us that the reality is much
worse,” he said regarding the newspaper report.
In
some areas, parents are keeping their children home from school, while
others have considered leaving the country. “If the virus continues to
spread at this rate, we will have to leave the country. What we hear
from people is scary,” said Samia, a mother from Tartus.
In
the middle of all of this, some are willing to exploit other people’s
fear in order to make some extra money. According to Tawfiq, a
pharmacist from Latakia, “many pharmacists use people's fear of the
disease, selling scared customers seasonal flu vaccines for very high
prices and claiming that they are vaccines for swine flu, even though
there is no specific vaccine for swine flu.”
Posted By: Albert
Date Posted: March 01 2016 at 6:03am
The
“Islamic State” require people coming to headquarters and hospitals to
put “medical mask”, doctors confirm infections and deaths because of
“bird flu”
The “Islamic State” is still require
people coming to headquarters and hospitals to put “medical mask” in
most areas of Deir Ezzor province, in order to prevent the infection’s
spreading from patients to the members of the organization or to other
citizens, the activists of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights were
informed by intersecting sources that the organization started this
procedure after the death of four people from one family, they were
taken over a week ago to the town of al-Mayadin in the eastern
countryside of Deir Ezzor for treatment, they showed symptoms of
vomiting, nose and gums bleeding, blood mixed with phlegm, high
temperatures and coughing as well as other conditions associated with
it.
Medical sources also
confirmed to the activists of the Observatory that these four people are
suffering from the “bird flu”, and that these four people have appeared
in the town of Beqres near al-Mayadin and that they were three men and a
girl, three men were moved to Al -Raqqah province for treatment, but
people who were transferred from Shaddadi to al-Mayadin have died due to
lack of necessary equipment and medicines, and the lack of medical
staff and lack of experience in dealing with such serious and infectious
diseases, also the activists of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
were informed that a fear state prevails among the citizens in the
“Islamic State” controlled areas, from the possibility of the spread of
this disease, amid the absence of necessary medical care, and lack of
medical staff expert of addressing these diseases, and especially
because most of the area depend on poultry breeding and feed on its
products.
Posted By: Albert
Date Posted: March 04 2016 at 5:42am
An older article, but could have some relevance. Also makes one wonder if the different bird flu strains emerging in the U.S. could be a form of bio attack.
Posted
Did Maine firm seed a Syrian bioweapon?
The company shipped a vaccine in violation of a federal export ban, and
several former executives were sentenced to prison, but Maine Biological
Laboratories denies its action led to a chemical weapon.
A Maine company may have helped Syrian dictator Bashar Assad build his
biological-weapons capability when it illegally shipped vaccines
containing a flu-like avian disease virus to Syria in 2001 and early
2002.
A Maine company may have helped Syrian dictator Bashar Assad build
his biological-weapons capability when it illegally shipped vaccines
containing a flu-like avian disease virus to Syria in 2001 and early
2002.
Additional Photos
Brett Gray, of Waterville, packages up bottles of vaccine for shipment
while working at Maine Biological Laboratories in Winslow Oct. 12, 2004.
File photo by John Ewing
Dave Zacek, president of Lohmann Animal Health International, Maine
Biological Laboratories' parent company, photographed on Oct. 12, 2004. File photo by John Ewing
Maine Biological Laboratories of Winslow, now a division of the
German firm Lohmann Animal Health, GmbH, shipped more than 14 million
doses of its vaccine for Newcastle disease, a pathogen that’s deadly to
chickens and other commercial poultry, to a Syrian company in 2001.
At the time, such exports required special licenses because Syria was
suspected of sponsoring terrorism. The company paid a $100,000 civil
penalty to settle charges related to the incident brought by the U.S.
Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security.
The company admitted that it had shipped the vaccine with the knowledge that its action violated a federal export ban.
On Saturday, The New York Times published a report on how Syria built
its chemical weapons stockpile with the help of foreign companies, and
cited Maine Biological Laboratories as “one of the best-known cases” of a
U.S. company providing a precursor for chemical weapons.
But the Newcastle disease virus – an organism, not a toxic agent – is
not believed to play a role in the development of chemical weapons, and
does not appear to be related to the sarin nerve gas that the U.S. says
was used to kill at least 1,400 Syrian civilians last month.
The virus can be transferred from birds to humans, but the symptoms
in people are mild, according to an article on the disease in “Weapons
of Mass Destruction: An Encyclopedia of Worldwide Policy, Technology and
History,” published in 2004.
The company sent a statement to The New York Times saying that
linking the incident in 2001 “with the use of poisonous gas … to kill
people is totally misleading and categorically false.”
“Even the most pathogenic strain of Newcastle disease virus is only
capable of causing disease in chickens and is in no way a threat to
human health or lives,” read the statement issued by company spokesman
Jeff Butler.
Newcastle disease has been a virus of choice for biological-weapons
researchers seeking ways to destroy an opponent’s food supply.
U.S. bioweapons researchers studied the disease at Fort Detrick, Md.,
in the early 1950s, according to a paper on biological warfare threats
by Lester C. Caudle III, former command surgeon of the Department of
Defense’s On Site Inspection Agency. It was chosen, Caudle wrote,
because it “had a devastating mortality and could render a predictable
epidemic-producing agent in the animal population.”
Caudle wrote that the goal of such a weapon “is to affect humans
indirectly by limiting their food supply” in wartime, possibly adding
“the prospect of starvation of a population to the immediate devastating
effects of conventional weapons.”
In addition to the $100,000 fine for its exports to a Syrian company,
Maine Biological Laboratories was fined $500,000 in a case involving
illegal importation of avian flu viruses from Saudi Arabia. Eight of the
company’s former executives pleaded guilty to smuggling, mail fraud and
conspiracy in the export and shipment of viruses and vaccines in the
case, and several were sentenced to prison in 2005.
The company was later purchased by Lohmann Animal Health, which,
since 2008, has financed $19 million in expansions of the facility on
China Road in Winslow, which still produces animal vaccines.
Company spokesman Butler told The New York Times that the viruses
shipped to Syria contained no live organisms, and suggested there is
ambiguity regarding federal restrictions on such substances. He wrote
that under federal law, “the U.S. Commerce Department is free to call
any item they wish ‘restricted,’ even if it is without merit.”
But in federal court filings submitted in the 2005 case, prosecutors
noted that the preamble to the relevant law – the Export Administration
Regulations – “makes clear that they apply to ‘vaccines, whether live,
attenuated, or dead.’ “
The Portland Press Herald asked Butler – an outside public relations
contractor – to seek clarification on that point, but he was not able to
do so by press time.
According to case records from the Bureau of Industry and Security,
Maine Biological Laboratories made the illegal shipments in the period
from January 2001 to February 2002. Company officials made at least four
such shipments, knowing that they were violating regulations, and in
three cases made false statements to federal regulators. The company was
banned for five years from shipping regulated exports.