Deadly New Mexican Flu Virus Sparks Global Pandemic Fear

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http://www.progressive.org/wx042909.html
The swine flu outbreak raises a lot of fears.

Here’s one you might not have thought of yet: The Pentagon may be taking over more and more of our civil society in this crisis.

Back in 2002, President Bush created NorthCom, the Pentagon’s Northern Command, which has jurisdiction over the United States.

And NorthCom has been running preparedness drills in the event of a flu pandemic for at least the past three years.

Making things more alarming, NorthCom got assigned its own fighting unit six months ago—the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team, which had spent much of the last five years battling things out in Iraq.

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Thanks, Aecetia. I think you’re right. Believe it or not, my next ambition is to have an organic farm. Not a lot of money, but I’m thinking sustainable food may be extremely important in the future. Plus, I miss being outdoors!

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[quote=Aecetia]Hang in there partypup. I know you are a survivor and you will emerge triumphant. This might even force you to do something else that would be more to your liking. Things happen for a reason.[/quote]

Thanks, Aecetia. I think you’re right. Believe it or not, my next ambition is to have an organic farm. Not a lot of money, but I’m thinking sustainable food may be extremely important in the future. Plus, I miss being outdoors!

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[quote=Aecetia]Hang in there partypup. I know you are a survivor and you will emerge triumphant. This might even force you to do something else that would be more to your liking. Things happen for a reason.[/quote]

Thanks, Aecetia. I think you’re right. Believe it or not, my next ambition is to have an organic farm. Not a lot of money, but I’m thinking sustainable food may be extremely important in the future. Plus, I miss being outdoors!

[partypup]

[quote=Aecetia]Hang in there partypup. I know you are a survivor and you will emerge triumphant. This might even force you to do something else that would be more to your liking. Things happen for a reason.[/quote]

Thanks, Aecetia. I think you’re right. Believe it or not, my next ambition is to have an organic farm. Not a lot of money, but I’m thinking sustainable food may be extremely important in the future. Plus, I miss being outdoors!

[partypup]

[quote=Aecetia]Hang in there partypup. I know you are a survivor and you will emerge triumphant. This might even force you to do something else that would be more to your liking. Things happen for a reason.[/quote]

Thanks, Aecetia. I think you’re right. Believe it or not, my next ambition is to have an organic farm. Not a lot of money, but I’m thinking sustainable food may be extremely important in the future. Plus, I miss being outdoors!

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Working outdoors one of the best anti-depressants known. I think a farm with goats would be great and of course grape vines. I know you can make it work.

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Working outdoors one of the best anti-depressants known. I think a farm with goats would be great and of course grape vines. I know you can make it work.

[Aecetia]

Working outdoors one of the best anti-depressants known. I think a farm with goats would be great and of course grape vines. I know you can make it work.

[Aecetia]

Working outdoors one of the best anti-depressants known. I think a farm with goats would be great and of course grape vines. I know you can make it work.

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Working outdoors one of the best anti-depressants known. I think a farm with goats would be great and of course grape vines. I know you can make it work.

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http://herald-zeitung.com/story.lasso?ewcd=96253e7a4687649e
Doctor’s e-mail causes stir, rebuked

By Chris Cobb
The Herald-Zeitung
Published May 1, 2009

With the number of documented cases of swine flu mounting, an already tenuous situation was pushed further to the brink of panic thanks to a widely circulated e-mail written by a local doctor on Wednesday.

Dr. Marcus Gitterle, an emergency physician working as an independent contractor out of Christus Santa Rosa Hospital — New Braunfels, penned an e-mail that claimed, among other things, that there were 10 to 25 times more swine flu cases than were being reported in the media and that hospitals would soon be overwhelmed and eventually run out of the anti-viral medication Tamiflu.

On Thursday, both the Austin-based medical group that employs Dr. Gitterle and the hospital claimed no responsibility for his comments and Dr. Gitterle’s e-mailed comments were roundly rejected by local health authorities.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090430/ap_on_he_me/med_swine_flu_testing

MILWAUKEE – A hundred cases of swine flu in the U.S.? Health officials say there are likely more. Just how many is not important, they say. As the world faces a potential pandemic, swamped labs are not testing all possible cases. Getting an exact tally has taken a back seat to finding new outbreak hot spots or ways to limits its spread, health officials said.
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The specimens are coming in faster than they can possibly be tested,” said Dr. Jeffrey P. Davis, state epidemiologist in Wisconsin, where a lab helped spot the nation’s first known case, in a 10-year-old boy from San Diego.
New York, which has more cases than any other U.S. location, also has had to limit the samples it tests, said Dr. Don Weiss of that city’s health department.

“Sure, we’d want to diagnose every case, but we don’t have that resource,” he said. Instead of trying to confirm every sign of the virus, “we’re focused on where else is it going and how do we prevent it.”

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http://herald-zeitung.com/story.lasso?ewcd=96253e7a4687649e
Doctor’s e-mail causes stir, rebuked

By Chris Cobb
The Herald-Zeitung
Published May 1, 2009

With the number of documented cases of swine flu mounting, an already tenuous situation was pushed further to the brink of panic thanks to a widely circulated e-mail written by a local doctor on Wednesday.

Dr. Marcus Gitterle, an emergency physician working as an independent contractor out of Christus Santa Rosa Hospital — New Braunfels, penned an e-mail that claimed, among other things, that there were 10 to 25 times more swine flu cases than were being reported in the media and that hospitals would soon be overwhelmed and eventually run out of the anti-viral medication Tamiflu.

On Thursday, both the Austin-based medical group that employs Dr. Gitterle and the hospital claimed no responsibility for his comments and Dr. Gitterle’s e-mailed comments were roundly rejected by local health authorities.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090430/ap_on_he_me/med_swine_flu_testing

MILWAUKEE – A hundred cases of swine flu in the U.S.? Health officials say there are likely more. Just how many is not important, they say. As the world faces a potential pandemic, swamped labs are not testing all possible cases. Getting an exact tally has taken a back seat to finding new outbreak hot spots or ways to limits its spread, health officials said.
”
The specimens are coming in faster than they can possibly be tested,” said Dr. Jeffrey P. Davis, state epidemiologist in Wisconsin, where a lab helped spot the nation’s first known case, in a 10-year-old boy from San Diego.
New York, which has more cases than any other U.S. location, also has had to limit the samples it tests, said Dr. Don Weiss of that city’s health department.

“Sure, we’d want to diagnose every case, but we don’t have that resource,” he said. Instead of trying to confirm every sign of the virus, “we’re focused on where else is it going and how do we prevent it.”

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http://herald-zeitung.com/story.lasso?ewcd=96253e7a4687649e
Doctor’s e-mail causes stir, rebuked

By Chris Cobb
The Herald-Zeitung
Published May 1, 2009

With the number of documented cases of swine flu mounting, an already tenuous situation was pushed further to the brink of panic thanks to a widely circulated e-mail written by a local doctor on Wednesday.

Dr. Marcus Gitterle, an emergency physician working as an independent contractor out of Christus Santa Rosa Hospital — New Braunfels, penned an e-mail that claimed, among other things, that there were 10 to 25 times more swine flu cases than were being reported in the media and that hospitals would soon be overwhelmed and eventually run out of the anti-viral medication Tamiflu.

On Thursday, both the Austin-based medical group that employs Dr. Gitterle and the hospital claimed no responsibility for his comments and Dr. Gitterle’s e-mailed comments were roundly rejected by local health authorities.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090430/ap_on_he_me/med_swine_flu_testing

MILWAUKEE – A hundred cases of swine flu in the U.S.? Health officials say there are likely more. Just how many is not important, they say. As the world faces a potential pandemic, swamped labs are not testing all possible cases. Getting an exact tally has taken a back seat to finding new outbreak hot spots or ways to limits its spread, health officials said.
”
The specimens are coming in faster than they can possibly be tested,” said Dr. Jeffrey P. Davis, state epidemiologist in Wisconsin, where a lab helped spot the nation’s first known case, in a 10-year-old boy from San Diego.
New York, which has more cases than any other U.S. location, also has had to limit the samples it tests, said Dr. Don Weiss of that city’s health department.

“Sure, we’d want to diagnose every case, but we don’t have that resource,” he said. Instead of trying to confirm every sign of the virus, “we’re focused on where else is it going and how do we prevent it.”

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http://herald-zeitung.com/story.lasso?ewcd=96253e7a4687649e
Doctor’s e-mail causes stir, rebuked

By Chris Cobb
The Herald-Zeitung
Published May 1, 2009

With the number of documented cases of swine flu mounting, an already tenuous situation was pushed further to the brink of panic thanks to a widely circulated e-mail written by a local doctor on Wednesday.

Dr. Marcus Gitterle, an emergency physician working as an independent contractor out of Christus Santa Rosa Hospital — New Braunfels, penned an e-mail that claimed, among other things, that there were 10 to 25 times more swine flu cases than were being reported in the media and that hospitals would soon be overwhelmed and eventually run out of the anti-viral medication Tamiflu.

On Thursday, both the Austin-based medical group that employs Dr. Gitterle and the hospital claimed no responsibility for his comments and Dr. Gitterle’s e-mailed comments were roundly rejected by local health authorities.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090430/ap_on_he_me/med_swine_flu_testing

MILWAUKEE – A hundred cases of swine flu in the U.S.? Health officials say there are likely more. Just how many is not important, they say. As the world faces a potential pandemic, swamped labs are not testing all possible cases. Getting an exact tally has taken a back seat to finding new outbreak hot spots or ways to limits its spread, health officials said.
”
The specimens are coming in faster than they can possibly be tested,” said Dr. Jeffrey P. Davis, state epidemiologist in Wisconsin, where a lab helped spot the nation’s first known case, in a 10-year-old boy from San Diego.
New York, which has more cases than any other U.S. location, also has had to limit the samples it tests, said Dr. Don Weiss of that city’s health department.

“Sure, we’d want to diagnose every case, but we don’t have that resource,” he said. Instead of trying to confirm every sign of the virus, “we’re focused on where else is it going and how do we prevent it.”

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