17 November 2009 — Preliminary tests reveal no significant changes in the pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus based on investigations of samples taken from patients in Ukraine. Analyses are being performed by two WHO influenza collaborating centres as part of the global influenza surveillance network.

Preliminary genetic sequencing shows that the virus is similar to the virus used for production of the pandemic influenza vaccine, reconfirming the vaccine’s efficacy at this time.

Additional questions about the pandemic virus circulating in Ukraine will be answered as more data is available.

WHO commends the government of Ukraine for its open sharing of samples to inform global monitoring of the virus for signs of change.

A total of 34 samples were analysed independently by the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, Mill Hill in London, UK, and the WHO Collaborating Centre for the Surveillance, Epidemiology and Control of Influenza in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

• Chronic asthma causing me to miss nearly 90 days worth of my freshman year in high school (either whole days out or forced to go home early due to asthma attacks). I didn’t make the four-year honor role because my academics were harmed by missing so much school.
• Medication required permanently for asthma from that point forward. To this day I am dependent upon daily meds. There was no family history beyond my immediate family of such ailments.
• Chronic sinus and tonsillitis causing chronic sore throats, aches, fatigue and more asthma. Antibiotics were not useful. I have never entirely been rid of sinus problems since.
• A proliferation of allergies to foods and drugs where formerly none existed, including most antibiotics. My immune system is haywire.
• A diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by a rheumatology specialist before most doctors had ever heard of the problem.
• Unexplained swelling of the knees and other joints without corresponding arthritis markers (negative antibioties).
• An adult sibling with no prior problems of the above sort developed nearly identical symptoms and was living in the same house in the same area sprayed nightly for several weeks.

So to put it to you in a nutshell, I wouldn’t put anything past a government or military decision that places the public health at risk for the sake of “research” or someone’s idea of “greater good”. Radioactive elements were sprayed on parts of the midwest and the west during the 1940s. More recently, the West is running out of potable water, but a massive Nevada water table worth $48 billion in today’s drought according to a recent LA TIMES article is contaminated by years of Cold War underground nuclear testing — and the worst of it is that pulling out too much too fast from NON-contaminated aquifers in the region may increase the rate at which the contaminated radioactive water creeps toward cities and towns surrounding the region. But DoD officials dismiss hydrologists’ concerns because it will take thousands of years to render much of the West’s water unusable.

It doesn’t take conspiracy to pull off something evil — it only takes hubris. Some of the smartest people did some of the most monumentally stupid things, even to include Einstein and the Manhattan Project.

People, the American people in particular, would do well to learn more about their colorful history. Truth is far more frightful than fiction.