H1N1 type A influenza

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The "Spanish" flu pandemic of 1918 and 1919 caused the deaths of 20-50 million people worldwide including up to 675,000 in the U.S. While only about 1% of those infected with the virus died, it became one of the deadliest viruses ever known to man. The 1918 flu has been described as capable of sickening and killing a person on the same day. The virus is an H1N1 type A influenza. Symptoms of infection were similar to, but more severe than typical, seasonal flu. Viral pneumonia leading to acute respiratory distress was the primary cause of death. Recently, the virus was reconstituted from frozen tissue samples from a woman who died from the virus.
1918 Influenza A (H1N1) Fact Sheet (http://www.fas.org/programs/ssp/bio/factsheets/H1N1factsheet.html)


The flu strain most likely to make you sick this winter has developed a near-total resistance to one of the most popular drugs prescribed to blunt its symptoms ... The CDC reports that two-thirds of the flu viruses typed this season have been A-viruses, and 90 percent of those have been the newly resistant H1N1 strain.
Common flu strain resists popular drug Tamiflu (http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-flu0302,0,1536981.story)
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“The company that released contaminated flu virus material from a plant in Austria confirmed Friday that the experimental product contained live H5N1 avian flu viruses,”
Baxter flu vaccines contaminated with H5N1 - otherwise known as the human form of avian flu, one of the most deadly biological weapons on earth with a 60% kill rate - were received by labs in the Czech Republic, Germany, and Slovenia.
...the only way it could have happened was by wilful gross criminal negligence.
“Was this just a criminal negligence or it was an attempt to provoke pandemia using vaccination against flu to spread the disease - as happened with the anti-B hepatitis vaccination with vaccines containing the HIV virus in US? - and then cash for the vaccines against H5N1 which Baxter develops? How could on Earth a virus as H5N1 come to the ordinary flu vaccines? Don’t they follow even basic precautions in the american pharma companies?”

Accidental Contamination Of Vaccine With Live Avian Flu Virus Virtually Impossible (http://www.prisonplanet.com/accidental-contamination-of-vaccine-with-live-avian-flu-virus-virtually-impossible.html)
Baxter: Product contained live bird flu virus, Toronto Sun (http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2009/02/27/8560781.html)