SHOCKER! United Nations report says millions will die from Swine Flu, cause anarchy...

The UN has released a shocking report that details how the H1N1 swine flu has the potential to kill millions,and would cause severe unrest in poor nations...

Prepare: World heading towards H1N1 flu pandemic

The spread of H1N1 flu in Australia, Britain, Chile, Japan and Spain has nudged the world closer to a pandemic, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday..

Swine Flu Outbreak May Be Subsiding, CDC Says

While many states are still reporting new cases of infection with the H1N1 swine flu virus, there seems to be an overall decline in visits to doctors and hospitals by people with the disease, indicating that the outbreak might be subsiding, a U.S. health official said Thursday..

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MASKS OFF: Mexico tries Normal in 48 Hours..

Mexico will resume normal business activity this week after its swine flu emergency eased, but the global flu alert triggered a trade dispute on Monday over bans on Mexican, U.S. and Canadian pork..

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SWINE FLU VICTIM: 'They wanted to send me home so I threatened to chain myself to the bed'...

A British victim of swine flu had to beg doctors to keep him in hospital while he was still suffering from the virus...

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1918 Influenza Pandemic: 20 to 100 million people were killed worldwide..

The pandemic is estimated to have affected up to one billion people: more than half the world's population at the time.

Eyewitness: "I well remember my husband, who was custodian of the town hall at the time, coming home very depressed and telling me all about this awful flu epidemic that was spreading so fast. The patients had very high temperatures, and when they died the bodies turned black.."

The 1918 flu pandemic (commonly referred to as the Spanish flu) was an influenza pandemic that spread to nearly every part of the world. It was caused by an unusually virulent and deadly Influenza A virus strain of subtype H1N1.

Historical and epidemiological data are inadequate to identify the geographic origin of the virus.

Most of its victims were healthy young adults, in contrast to most influenza outbreaks which predominantly affect juvenile, elderly, or otherwise weakened patients.


The pandemic lasted from March 1918 to June 1920, spreading even to the Arctic and remote Pacific islands. It is estimated that anywhere from 20 to 100 million people were killed worldwide,or the approximate equivalent of one third of the population of Europe,more than double the number killed in World War I.


This extraordinary toll resulted from the extremely high illness rate of up to 50% and the extreme severity of the symptoms, suspected to be caused by cytokine storms.

Scientists have used tissue samples from frozen victims to reproduce the virus for study. Given the strain's extreme virulence there has been controversy regarding the wisdom of such research.

Among the conclusions of this research is that the virus kills via a cytokine storm (overreaction of the body's immune system) which explains its unusually severe nature and the concentrated age profile of its victims.

The strong immune systems of young adults ravaged the body, whereas the weaker immune systems of children and middle-aged adults caused fewer deaths.

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The World Health Organization: "all of humanity" is threatened. MEXICO CITY SHUTS DOWN...

The dire warning showed that world health officials are very worried about the potential for massive numbers of deaths worldwide from the mutated virus, even though the epidemic so far has claimed only a confirmed eight lives in Mexico and one in the United States.

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STUPIDO! - BRINGING 'SWINE FLU' INTO THE US: Mexicans crossing border into the U.S. take swine flu lightly..

Many Mexicans crossing into the United States on Monday at one of the busiest crossings on the border shunned advice to wear surgical face mask to curb the spread of a deadly new flu.

RETARDED: "I don't think anything will happen to me, it's old people and children we need to look after," said Gloria, a 35-year-old woman waiting to cross by car into California. Yet many of the 149 people who have died of the new virus in Mexico have actually been aged between 25 and 45....

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FLU PANDEMIC in 1968, killed about 1 million people. World now closer to pandemic ..

The World Health Organization raised its pandemic alert for the new flu strain to phase 4, indicating a significantly increased risk of a global outbreak of a serious disease...

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