Swine Flu in North America Symptomatic of Holocaust Potential

April 24, 2009 (LPAC)--Emergency measures to deal with an unusually deadly, late-season outbreak of influenza were announced yesterday by Mexican authorities. All classes were cancelled in Mexico City schools, from kindergarten through university, and people were told to stay out of the subways and away from crowded places, as possible, and take all basic preventive hygiene measures. All hospitals nationally have been ordered to report all flu-like and pneumonia cases to the Health Ministry, as the government attempts to pull together a picture of a flu which is estimated, thus far, to have killed anywhere from 20 to 60 people since mid-March, mostly in the 20-40 year old range.

Which specific strain of influenza is striking in Mexico has not yet been identified (or at least not yet been made public), but the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have positively identified eight cases of swine flu in three Texas and California counties on or near the border with Mexico. CDC and World Health Organization (WHO) officials are treating it as likely that it is the same strain of virus.

According to the CDC, this is a new type of swine flu, for which there is no vaccine at this time, and which is contagious from human to human, although how easily it spreads between humans is not yet determined. According to Reuters, acting CDC Director Dr. Richard Besser told reporters in a telephone briefing today that what they are seeing suggests that containment of the swine flu outbreak in the United States "is not very likely." He also said that the U.S. and Mexican cases are likely the same virus, although it is not clear why the cases in the United States have been mild, while the virus is causing deaths in Mexico. The WHO called the combination of Mexican and U.S. events of "high concern," because the outbreak involves human cases associated with an animal influenza virus, plus the geographical spread of multiple community outbreaks and "the somewhat unusual age groups affected."

Under today's globalization conditions, the potential for rapid spread into a global pandemic are but a plane flight away. The last year's implosion of Mexico's physical economy, coming on top of its systematic dismantling since 1982, has turned the country into a petri dish for spreading diseases. The current flu outbreak is not confined to Mexico City, but the city is rightfully a center of concern. Should an epidemic take off in this largest of the world's cities, whose water, electricity and food supply for its 20 million-plus inhabitants are already compromised, it would have global ramifications, for the kind of sudden, global physical breakdown of which Lyndon LaRouche has been warning.