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Possible swine flu on Alaska cruise ship
The numbers of cruise ship bookings to Alaska are down this year, and with a possible case of swine flu detected on board one ship in Alaska waters, I'm worried they could very well go down even more. The Associated Press reports today that "a female crew member of the Serenade of the Seas, a Royal Caribbean ship, became ill May 2 while sailing from San Francisco northward." Swine flu was suspected, and the Washington State Public Health Laboratory forwarded tests to the CDC, which is validating the results. Meanwhile, state officials in Alaska conducted its own tests in Ketchikan when the ship docked there. The results were negative, though officials note that the patient had been taking Tamiflu and hadn't run a fever for several days, so the negative results were not surprising.
If this case turns out to be positive for swine flu, it will be the first reported case in Alaska.
UPDATE: Alaska health officials say tests confirmed that swine flu sickened the crew member, but she has since recovered after a course of treatment and a CDC-recommended 7-day period of isolation. However, Alaska health officials argue that the case can't be considered Alaska's "first case" of swine flu for several reasons, one being that the woman became ill before entering state waters.
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[Via Anchorage Daily News]
Filed under: North America, United States, News, Travel Health, Cruises
Reader Comments (Page 3 of 3)
Linda May 13th 2009 8:53PM
I find it interesting that when the swine flu was first discovered it was all over the news. Every night they had a bulletin on the news about how many were sick, how many were dead, where people were catching it etc etc etc. But now all of a sudden there isnt much about it. No word on it being under control, no more about new cases, except this one on the cruise ship. Did it all just disappear or did the media get bored and go on to something interesting (?) like how many guy Lindsey Lohan has slept with and is she pregnant. OMG I hate all this crap.
CALIFJUDY2008 May 13th 2009 9:10PM
Linda when Joe Biden said if some one sneezes on a plane everyone will breath the germs but the HEAD OF HOMELAND SECURITY said he MENT not to fly when you are sick and when Joe Biden said he would not put his family on a plane SHE said he MENT if they wer sick. The Head of home land security said not to close scools if swine flu hit a student. She also said she would NOT close the borders. and if you think ther is freedom of the press, THINK AGAIN the reports must zip it ck it out . its to bad but thats the way it is
gemini235x235 May 13th 2009 9:43PM
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May 13th 2009 6:00PM
Reply to statistics.....
The 1918 Flu Killed one fifth of the world's population... Approximately 50 Million people...
If there are Approx. 6 Billion today... That's 1,200,000,000 dead.... That's one fifth???? RIGHT??? 20%???
Makes your 435,000 look kind'a puny, HUH?????"=====So how many people have died from this swine flue hype thus far? Its been active long enough to determine its possible deadly affects or has the media hyped it up to something it really isn't?
kenny9000xx May 13th 2009 10:21PM
There are always some kind of virus floating around on these cruise ships with so many people close together; some of whom are sick when they get on board in the pool and deck areas passing and mingling with jerms. I think the most deadly epidemic although non contagious is AIDS/HIV that has infected and killed upwards of 100 million people worldwide since the early 80's. I would consider AIDS more devastating than the Spanish flu of 1918 and the Black Plague of the middle ages. Yet despite AIDS/HIV and beyond its peak, life still goes on and mankind is still alive and functioning.
momdever May 13th 2009 10:29PM
Hey Catherine (author) it's "Alaskan waters" not Alaska waters... just thought I'd help you out. Ever take English and grammar?
Mathew 12:34 May 13th 2009 10:27PM
Mr. O didn't create the Swine Flu, BUT he did bring on the onslaught of media attention to it. While the Panic of the Liberal Left Media Corp was Screaming "CRISIS", Mr. O in the first time of the history of the USA took over GM and assigned a new CEO. LIBBY's favorate tactic. Look at my right hand and totally disregaurd what my Left is up to.
Sarah May 13th 2009 10:28PM
My bff has had swine flu for 3 weeks and hasnt been in school.She is getting horribly sick.Keep her in your prayers and God bless Morelia.
Anthony E. Meyer May 13th 2009 11:46PM
I plan to go to Alaska for a week by cruise ship in June. I'm more worried about getting my travel papers than I am getting Swine Flu. If I get it then and I survive, I won't have to worry anymore for I will be permanently immune.
Chris May 14th 2009 2:05AM
Anyone who chooses to visit Alaska for a vacation deserves the swine flu. There has been a boycott for many years against travel to this wildlife killing state. The killing of wolves and wolf pups in their dens was the reason for the boycott. Wolves are killed by aerial hunters, pups are poisoned in their dens. Polar bears are now in danger as the governor of Alaska wants to lift restrictions. People with conscious do not visit Alaska.
ryanoback May 14th 2009 5:42AM
Mexico has found another way to bring the US down to their level. Just give us and the rest of the world the mexican flu. Then enlist a bunch of people to deny that it came from there. Just like the salmonila that was covered up, denied and finally admitted to. An on going practice from our neighbors. I would just like to know what kind of a hold that mexico has on our leaders to have them ignore what is clear danger to America and it's citizens.
Josh Jul 6th 2009 6:13PM
Journalist Files Charges against WHO and UN for Bioterrorism and Intent to Commit Mass Murder
By Barbara Minton
As the anticipated July release date for Baxter’s A/H1N1 flu pandemic vaccine approaches, an Austrian investigative journalist is warning the world that the greatest crime in the history of humanity is underway. Jane Burgermeister has recently filed criminal charges with the FBI against the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations (UN), and several of the highest ranking government and corporate officials concerning bioterrorism and attempts to commit mass murder.
She has also prepared an injunction against forced vaccination which is being filed in America. These actions follow her charges filed in April against Baxter AG and Avir Green Hills Biotechnology of Austria for producing contaminated bird flu vaccine, alleging this was a deliberate act to cause and profit from a pandemic.
Summary of claims and allegations filed with FBI in Austria on June 10, 2009:
In her charges, Burgermeister presents evidence of acts of bioterrorism that is in violation of U.S. law by a group operating within the U.S. under the direction of international bankers who control the Federal Reserve, as well as WHO, UN and NATO. This bioterrorism is for the purpose of carrying out a mass genocide against the U.S. population by use of a genetically engineered flu pandemic virus with the intent of causing death. This group has annexed high government offices in the U.S.
Specifically, evidence is presented that the defendants, Barack Obama, President of the U.S, David Nabarro, UN System Coordinator for Influenza, Margaret Chan, Director-General of WHO, Kathleen Sibelius, Secretary of Department of Health and Human Services, Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Department of Homeland Security, David de Rotschild, banker, David Rockefeller, banker, George Soros, banker, Werner Faymann, Chancellor of Austria, and Alois Stoger, Austrian Health Minister, among others, are part of this international corporate criminal syndicate which has developed, produced, stockpiled and employed biological weapons to eliminate the population of the U.S. and other countries for financial and political gain.
The charges contend that these defendants conspired with each other and others to devise, fund and participate in the final phase of the implementation of a covert international bioweapons program involving the pharmaceutical companies Baxter and Novartis. They did this by bioengineering and then releasing lethal biological agents, specifically the “bird flu” virus and the “swine flu virus” in order to have a pretext to implement a forced mass vaccination program which would be the means of administering a toxic biological agent to cause death and injury to the people of the U.S. This action is in direct violation of the Biological Weapons Anti-terrorism Act.
Burgermeister’s charges include evidence that Baxter AG, Austrian subsidiary of Baxter International, deliberately sent out 72 kilos of live bird flu virus, supplied by the WHO in the winter of 2009 to 16 laboratories in four counties. She claims this evidence offers clear proof that the pharmaceutical companies and international government agencies themselves are actively engaged in producing, developing, manufacturing and distributing biological agents classified as the most deadly bioweapons on earth in order to trigger a pandemic and cause mass death.
In her April charges, she noted that Baxter’s lab in Austria, one of the supposedly most secure biosecurity labs in the world, did not adhere to the most basic and essential steps to keep 72 kilos of a pathogen classified as a bioweapon secure and separate from all other substances under stringent biosecurity level regulations, but it allowed it to be mixed with the ordinary human flu virus and sent from its facilities in Orth in the Donau.
In February, when a staff member at BioTest in the Czech Republic tested the material meant for candidate vaccines on ferrets, the ferrets died. This incident was not followed up by any investigation from the WHO, EU, or Austrian health authorities. There was no investigation of the content of the virus material, and there is no data on the genetic sequence of the virus released.
In answer to parliamentary questions on May 20th, the Austrian Health Minister, Alois Stoger, revealed that the incident had been handled not as a biosecurity lapse, as it should have been, but as an offence against the veterinary code. A veterinary doctor was sent to the lab for a brief inspection.
Burgermeister’s dossier reveals that the release of the virus was to be an essential step for triggering a pandemic that would allow the WHO to declare a Level 6 Pandemic. She lists the laws and decrees that would allow the UN and WHO to take over the United States in the event of pandemic. In addition, legislation requiring compliance with mandatory vaccinations would be put into force in the U.S. under conditions of pandemic declaration.
She charges that the entire “swine flu” pandemic business is premised on a massive lie that there is no natural virus out there that poses a threat to the population. She presents evidence leading to the belief that the bird flu and swine flu viruses have, in fact, been bioengineered in laboratories using funding supplied by the WHO and other government agencies, among others. This “swine flu” is a hybrid of part swine flu, part human flu and part bird flu, something that can only come from laboratories according to many experts.
WHO’s claim that this “swine flu” is spreading and a pandemic must be declared ignores the fundamental causes. The viruses that were released were created and released with the help of WHO, and WHO is overwhelmingly responsible for the pandemic in the first place. In addition, the symptoms of the supposed “swine flu” are indistinguishable from regular flu or from the common cold. The “swine flu” does not cause death anymore often than the regular flu causes death.
Burgermeister notes that the figures for deaths reported for the “swine flu” are inconsistent and there is no clarity as to how the number of “deaths” has been documented.
There is no pandemic potential unless mass vaccinations are carried out to weaponize the flu under the guise of protecting the population. There are reasonable grounds for believing that the mandatory vaccines will be purposely contaminated with diseases that are specifically designed to cause death.
Reference is made to a licensed Novartis bird flu vaccine that killed 21 homeless people in Poland in the summer of 2008 and had as its “primary outcome measure” an “adverse events rate”, thereby meeting the U.S. government’s own definition of a bioweapon (a biological agent designed to cause an adverse events rate, i.e death or injury) with a delivery system (injection).
She alleges that the same complex of international pharmaceutical companies and international government agencies that have developed and released pandemic material have positioned themselves to profit from triggering the pandemic with contracts to supply vaccines. Media controlled by the group that is engineering the “swine flu” agenda is spreading misinformation to lull the people of the U.S. into taking the dangerous vaccine.
The people of the U.S. will suffer substantial and irreparable harm and injury if they are forced to take this unproven vaccine without their consent in accordance with the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act, National Emergency Act, National Security Presidential Directive/NSPD 51, Homeland Security Presidential Directive/HSPD-20, and the International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza.
In the U.S. since 2008, Burgermeister charges that those named in her allegations have implemented new and/or accelerated the implementation of laws and regulations designed to strip the citizens of the U.S. of their lawful constitutional rights to refuse an injection. These people have created or allowed provisions to remain in place that make it a criminal act to refuse to take an injection against pandemic viruses. They have imposed other excessive and cruel penalties such as imprisonment and/or quarantine in FEMA camps while barring the citizens of the U.S. from claiming compensation from injury or death from the forced injections. This is in violation of the laws governing federal corruption and the abuse of office as well as of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Through these actions, the named defendants have laid the groundwork for mass genocide.
Using the “swine flu” as a pretext, the defendants have preplanned the mass murder of the U.S. population by means of forced vaccination. They have installed an extensive network of FEMA concentration camps and identified mass grave sites, and they have been involved in devising and implementing a scheme to hand power over the U.S. to an international crime syndicate that uses the UN and WHO as a front for illegal racketeering influenced organized crime activities, in violation of the laws that govern treason.
She further charges that the complex of pharmaceutical companies consisting of Baxter, Novartis and Sanofi Aventis are part of a foreign-based dual purpose bioweapons program, financed by this international criminal syndicate and designed to implement mass murder to reduce the world’s population by more than 5 billion people in the next ten years. Their plan is to spread terror to justify forcing people to give up their rights, and to force mass quarantine in FEMA camps. The houses, companies and farms and lands of those who are killed will be up for grabs by this syndicate.
By eliminating the population of North America, the international elite gain access to the region’s natural resources such as water and undeveloped oil lands. And by eliminating the U.S. and its democratic constitution by subsuming it under a North American Union, the international crime group will have total control over North America.