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Originally Posted by pornguy
From the day the Swine flu hit the news to the day they found Patient Zero, IN MEXICO none the less, was a VERY short time. I find it very funny that they happend to be able to trace that back to a small town so fast. In a country where computers are still not the norm.
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Notice while Baxter was shipping H5N1 to various labs in Three countries .... the first Patient Zero of H1N1 comes out of Mexico. Nearly the same timing....
Baxter H5N1 Lab Release: February 6, 2009
First H1N1 Swine Flu case: February 24, 2009 ~ Two weeks apart.....18 days
http://www.physorg.com/news167639698.html
Mexico swine flu 'patient zero' was baby girl in February
July 24th, 2009
Mexico's first known swine flu case was a six-month-old baby girl in a northern part of the country who had no known contact with pig farms, the head of a laboratory studying the virus told AFP Thursday.
"It's a six-month-old baby girl from San Luis Potosi who is alive" and first showed symptoms of the new strain of the influenza A(H1N1) virus on February 24, said Celia Alpuche of the Institute of Epidemiological Diagnosis and Reference (INDRE) in Mexico City.
Worldwide media honed in on two possible "patient zeros," including a five-year-old boy who lived near a pig farm in eastern Mexico and a woman from Oaxaca, in the southeast, after the government first raised the A(H1N1) alert exactly three months ago.
Both had contracted the virus, which has now killed more than 700 people worldwide, in April.
But studies carried out on a backlog of samples show that a first handful of recorded cases appeared in March in central and northern Mexico, before any showed up further south, said Alpuche.
"We have other positive samples in March from Baja California (northwest), San Luis Potosi and Mexico City (center)," Alpuche said, referring to results discovered around one month ago.
"It's complicated to say where it originated but the earlier samples are not from rural areas, that's to say areas with farms (or) pigs," she added.
Mexico's swine flu death toll now stands at 138, with almost 14,800 recorded cases, and the country has recently seen an upsurge of cases in the impoverished southeast.
(c) 2009 AFP
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Live Avian Flu Virus Placed in Baxter Vaccine Materials Sent to Three Countries (page 1)
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Live Avian Flu Virus Placed in Baxter Vaccine Materials Sent to 18 Countries ( Page 3 )
http://www.lifegen.de/newsip/shownew...02-2412&pc=s02
3/2/2009
Baxter H5N1 Contamination: Causes were a unique combination of process, technical and human errors
Since we started our coverage of the Baxter-Contamination Story in Europe shares of the big pharmaceutical company in Deerfield, IL have lost more more than 8 percent in two days, as a look at Google Finance reveals. Baxter's Chief of Communications in the US, Christopher Bona, supported our idea for an exclusive interview, so Jutta Brenn-Vogt, Manager Communications at Baxter Deutschland GmbH explained LifeGen.de what really happened with H5N1, and how security measures - not only at Baxter - should work on a global scale.
LifeGen.de: How and when did Baxter find out about the contamination?
Brenn-Vogt: A suspicion concerning a potential contamination arose at AVIR Greenhills' contracted lab in the Czech Republic during the late afternoon of Friday, February 6.
Baxter was then notified by AVIR Greenhills about this situation in three locations (Slovenia, Czech Republic, Austria) during the early evening of Friday, February 6.
The last notification was on February 17 from AVIR Greenhills regarding a laboratory in Germany.