Government Complicit in Swine Flu?
No, I don't recall seeing this one before, forwarded to me by a friend who got it on Saturday but see if this sounds a little suspicious - an application filed in 2005:
"US Patent Application 20090010962 - Genetically Engineered Swine Influenza Virus and Uses Thereof"
(from the Abstract)
The present invention relates, in general, to attenuated swine influenza viruses having an impaired ability to antagonize the cellular interferon (IFN) response, and the use of such attenuated viruses in vaccine and pharmaceutical formulations. In particular, the invention relates to attenuated swine influenza viruses having modifications to a swine NS1 gene that diminish or eliminate the ability of the NS1 gene product to antagonize the cellular IFN response. These viruses replicate in vivo, but demonstrate decreased replication, virulence and increased attenuation, and therefore are well suited for use in live virus vaccines, and pharmaceutical formulations.
You can read the rest, but as my friend who sent it on asked "How much smoking gun do you need?"
I'm not ready to jump to any conclusions yet, without more reading. Besides, best I can figure, the government maybe saw this coming years ago and this is nothing more than reasonable research and possibly a preemptive move to keep the big pharma outfits from owning the underlying virus as well as their unique 'solutions' to dealing with it.
Of course, there's the next level of disease issue: Who then owns the thawed out Spanish Flu virus - the companies that thawed and cloned, or the Inuit people's from whom the virus was taken? Moot point since Big Pharma may not own the government, but through the captive regulator process, they've made a pretty damn substantial down payment on it.
Meantime, Ukraine is looking more and more like linguistic predictions of 'masked men' this fall.
