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LaRouche: There Is No Evidence That This Is Not a Return to the Spanish Flu of 1918

May 13, 2009 (LPAC)—As top officials of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were publically warning that "we really need to guard against complacency" with the new H1N1 flu virus which is sweeping the world, Lyndon LaRouche again warned of the danger that we may be facing a deadly global pandemic, unleashed by the economic policies of globalization.

"How do we know that this is not a return of the Spanish flu?" LaRouche asked today. "There is no significant evidence to that effect, so therefore, until we know better, we take the precautions we should take on the basis of knowing about the Spanish flu. Because everything so far has provided no evidence that this is not a replay of the Spanish flu, or something even worse."

The Spanish flu of 1918 killed upwards of 50 million people.

LaRouche, like competent virologists around the world, has warned about the danger of recombination of the H1N1 virus with the far more virulent avian flu, or other strains, which could produce a global catastrophe as the flu season hits this fall in the northern hemisphere. The World Health Organization today also warned that the greatest threat of lethal infections are among people with underlying chronic conditions, and that "the prevalence of chronic diseases has risen dramatically since 1968, when the last pandemic of the previous century occurred. The geographical distribution of these diseases, once considered the close companions of affluent societies, has likewise shifted dramatically. Today, WHO estimates that 85% of the burden of chronic diseases is now concentrated in low- and middle-income countries."

LaRouche pointed to the physical economic breakdown caused by British globalization policies, and health care cutbacks in particular, as the cause of this pattern.

"Once you've got that kind of condition," LaRouche emphasized, "unless proven otherwise, the consequences of not treating it as if it's serious, itself is a crime. Because saving a human life, and discovering how to do so, is never a matter of an option. You do it! Because the failure to do it implies that you are willing to go and do things that have irreparable consequences, like the Nazis."


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