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Swine Flu, Mystery Virus Or Pure Hype: What Is Going
On In Ukraine?
Is politics behind the scaremongering or is
something more sinister taking place?
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Anyone closely following the news on swine flu will have
noticed that there are conflicting stories of an advanced pandemic
outbreak in Ukraine.
While the mainstream media is reporting that it is a surge in
H1N1 influenza, alternative media sources are reporting that
it is a new unidentified virus, while other reports cite witnesses
in Ukraine who say there is no evidence of a pandemic at all.
Last week, according to mainstream reports, such as this
one by AFP, Ukraine confirmed its first swine flu
deaths, prompting Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko (pictured)
to implement a lockdown, including a ban on public gatherings,
restrictions of movement between regions, imposed quarantines
in nine provinces and the closing of schools, churches and cinemas.
President Viktor Yushchenko has reportedly asked the United States,
the European Union, NATO and Ukraine's neighbours for drugs
and equipment to fight the spread of the virus, according to
a statement
released by his office.
Other reports have stated that Yushchenko has asked the Defense
Ministry to prepare mobile military hospitals to deal with the
outbreak, prompting fears that Yushchenko will soon effectively
place Ukraine under martial law.
However, according to reports
today, Prime Minister Tymoshenko has attempted
to reverse the panic by announcing that there is no swine flu
pandemic in the country at all, and that it is down to "media
hysteria" and "politicians' populist statements"
in the run up to January elections.
"I want to underline that we are having a seasonal flu
epidemic, which occurs every year," Tymoshenko told a government
meeting also attended by heads of pharmaceutical companies and
medical equipment producers.
The pro-western government of Ukraine is charging that the
"lockdown" is being overplayed by opposition politicians.
A World Health Organization team visiting Ukraine has
also announced that there is no evidence that the
country's outbreak is particularly severe, observations that
dovetail with eyewitness reports from people in the city of
Lviv, one of the supposed worst affected areas, who have said
that nothing out of the ordinary is occurring in Ukraine.
Some political analysts also believe that the "pandemic"
is political hype.
"Right now all the candidates are weighing their political
options, looking around for a theme, and this is a very hot
topic right now. The panic is there, and they are acting on
it," said Konstantin Bondarenko, director of the Gorshenin
Institute, a political think tank.
The Ukrainian health ministry has now said that
22 out of a total 67 deaths from flu or acute respiratory illness
have been confirmed as caused by the H1N1 virus. Given that
the country has a population of 40 million, that figure can
hardly be classed as a worrying one.
Another twist in the take comes in the form of
various reports that have suggested that the Ukraine has actually
been hit
by an unknown new virus.
“The H1N1 virus which causes Mexican flu
has been ruled out,” Radio
Netherlands Worldwide reported over the weekend.
Ukraine Health Minister Vasyl
Kniazevych backed this up in statements to the
National Radio Company of Ukraine, indicating that the virus
is not H1N1. “The minister noted that the main objective
is to identify the virus causing the disease, which is expected
to take several weeks.”
Knyazevich has also suggested that the virus could be an already
discovered but different form of influenza, the so-called California
A/N1N1 flu.
While others have said the virus constitutes
a pneumonic plague, some suggest the virus is a
more
virulent strain of H1N1, claiming that the virus
has an affinity for the lungs and that the way it attacks young
people strongly suggests it is a virulent form of H1N1.
Another
report suggests that eyewitnesses in Ukraine have
reported seeing light aircraft spraying an unidentified aerosol
over the city of Kiev, which they believe is linked to the so
called "outbreak". The office of Emergency Response
in Ukraine has refuted the claims.
Whatever is really going on in Ukraine, the news has sparked
a flurry of reports from conspiracy based websites that are
citing a warning made in August by a man called Joseph Moshe,
who claimed to be a former Mossad microbiologist.
Moshe hit the headlines when he was arrested
after a long standoff with police in LA because
he had supposedly made threats against the White House.
Shortly after his arrest, hundreds of comments and reports
began to circulate stating that Moshe had called into a radio
show to warn people about a biological weapon that was being
prepared by Baxter
International's Ukraine plant that would be spread
via a flu vaccine and would cause a plague upon it's release.
Moshe's identity as a microbiologist does
seem to be verifiable, and Baxter certainly does
have a presence in the Ukraine, as this
page with Baxter's contact information for it's
Ukraine office confirms.
Whether Moshe's claims have any basis in truth
is up for debate, however, it now seems an incredible coincidence
that he fingered Ukraine as the location for a specific outbreak.
Further
reading: Has Baxter International released a biological weapon?
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