Flu Stop: H1N1 Flu D225G Mutation is Causing More Deaths!

Key signs that could make the H1N1 Flu more deadly are rising. Look at the signs below to decide for yourself where the H1N1 Flu is going!

1. In the last month, severe patients test sent to the National Institute of Virology has increased 100 percent. This test was to confirm H1N1 infection.

2. The infection rate has increased to 25% from 15 to 20% worldwide. This means the strain is improving its survival chances.

3. If you increase the infection rate in the US by five or ten percent, that adds up to thirty million more people catching the virus per wave of activity.

4. Pune is a city in the state of Maharashtra, India. About thirty-six percent of the people in the state live there. However, about 55% of the 300 deaths in the state come from Pune. Clearly, the D225G strain is strong in the area.

5. D225G has a low reactor response to the vaccine. This means the vaccine will probably not work against the new strain.

6. A few days ago, the secretary of state in Romania said the H1N1 Fatality rate has increased from 0.1% to 1.32%. A 1% increase in the death rate worldwide could involve up to thirty-five million people.

Do not let the 1% increase in deaths go over your head! Stop for a moment and think. These are important signs of what could come next.

This kind of thing is starting to pop up in different parts of the world. The D225G is causing the problem.

Mandeep Chadha, deputy director of NIV talked about the 3 out of 3 D225G deaths (100% CFR). “We didn’t see any change in the genetic make-up of the virus after that. Of the three patients, two were from pune and one from Nashik. The mutation was detected in the haemagglutinin (HA) region of the virus’ gene.”

The above facts link the D225G with more severe cases. Also, it means that D225G is getting a higher % share of the H1N1 flu.

In the beginning of the pandemic, all eyes were on the mutation of the germ. At first, the virus did not change much. Now it is changing quickly to survive. Many people are immune to it due to catching it before. Also, the flu vaccine has made lots of people immune. The new mutation could help the germ spread. The virus’s reason for existence is to infect host. It must infect fresh host to survive or die.

Since the H1N1 share many traits with its mother the record-breaking 1918 Spanish flu, it would be smart to prepare.

Natural selection would cause the D225G mutation to show up more and more times.

A child can see this train coming down the tracks.

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Resources and more information:
1. The Times of India

Flu Stop sees Flu: Swine flu getting more dangerous!

Secretary of State Adrian Streinu-Cercel said the case fatality rate or CFR in influenza A/H1N1 virus in the last six weeks increased from 0.1% to 1.32%. Wait, are you k-I-d-d-I-n-g me 0.1% to 1.32%. That is a huge jump. These numbers may over state the problem. This is due to the use of confirmed cases only. However, this shows a clear-cut trend. And where will the case fatality rate be in 3 to 6 months. The CFR during the 1918 Spanish flu was 2.5%. But, you cannot compare these two numbers today.

Look this subject up on the internet. You do trust the Secretary of state don’t you? This is probably the most important post I have made in years. Why, the facts are here right in front of you. This is where the pandemic will start to show its teeth.

Two friends from Romania died recently from the flu. Swine flu was the cause of the deaths. Both people caught the flu/swine from the same source. The fact that one strain killed both people is important. That means the CFR is 100%. This strain is showing up more and more often. It has an 8 out of 8 CRF in the Ukraine. There are reports of this strain showing up in nearby Moldova and Russia. The strain is rare in total numbers. This is the reason for the 1.32%. However, the larger the percentage shares, the higher the danger. Do not panic, I doubt that the percentage will get higher than 2 or 3%. This means that at least 97% of the people will survive the swine flu.

Common sense says that it is spreading from person to person. What do you think? Do you need more evidence? The WHO believes that it is a result of random sick people creating this strain from within.

The WHO found a common marker at Mill Hill in London. Experts in key labs in the world have seen the same marker. Many fatal/severe cases of the flu have receptor binding domain changes. This change is at position 225. The D225G/D225N domain change is causing the problems. The more we see the D225G/N strain the higher the CFR will be.

A cluster of three caught the swine flu in Caracal, Romania. There were two women and a boyfriend. The boyfriend had severe lung damage. This links it to the D255G/N. two people died and one was in intensive care. This puts this case also in the very high CFR range. People who catch the swine flu in a cluster are not creating the germ from within.

There were also two fatal cases in Mexico with D225G/N. This was in San Luis Potosi. They passed away a day apart from each other. These cases were too close to each other to be of random creation. There are more examples not mentioned.

The above facts point to more people catching this strain in the coming months. This will make the swine flu more dangerous!


A quarterback throws the ball in front of the target not at where he is when he makes the throw. If he does not calculate, where the target will be he will never complete a pass.

I say this because some trusted advisers will only tell you what they can prove. They will not use their common sense to make an educated guess. Why, because politics rises its ugly head and it changes things. I guarantee you there are experts out there who will not tell you how they really feel due to the politics. The world is in a bad way. And there are billions of dollars spent/not spent due to what will happen in the next few months. Believe me; this will affect people’s view on things. However, if you wait until the last moment with your head buried in the sand, it could get nasty.

Remember, the swine flu now has a good reason to adapt. 15 to 20% of the people around the world are immune to the virus due to catching it before. And another 20% or more are immune due to the flu shot.

The swine flu will now adapt through mutation or DIE. The virus needs a host to LIVE. They infect a host by attaching to a host cell. Then it injects its genetic material into the cell forcing it to create more viruses. If a person has immunity to the virus, the germ will not be able to attach to the cell. Since, we have up to 50% of the world that may be immune. This means when the virus tries to attach to a new host, half the time it may not be able to do it. This will put the viruses back against the wall. It will need to change so that it can attach to the cell or die. There needs to be a certain density of host for a virus to survive.

The following reasons are what make D225G/N DANGEROUS:

1. This strain of the flu/swine shows a LOW REACTOR response to our vaccine. This means our vaccine may not work against it.
2. This strain shows it can resist or adapt to our antiviral drugs like Tamiflu.
3. Due to a CFR near 100%, the less of it we see the better.
4. It is increasing its share of the swine flu’s percentage pie.
5. The D225G was part of the record-breaking 1918 Spanish flu virus. Studies show that it had and has a link to severe lung damage.

The whole world has become complacent. Many people are refusing the vaccine. They believe the flu. Swine flu is too mild to take a chance on problems with the vaccines safety.

I fear that too many people will not see what is probably ahead. This will cause unnecessary grief.

At least cover the basics.

It is important that you do not panic; there are ways to avoid the flu. Swine flu is a disease that we can avoid by doing certain things. To have the highest rate of success we all need to do more than just wash our hands often. Call 719-237-1167 to get a free sample 165 pages interactive and multimedia digital E-Book manual that will help you avoid the swine flu today.


Resources and more information see:
1. Transmission of Fatal H1N1 D225G/N Accelerates Concerns
2. D225G Link to Fatal Caracal Cluster in Romania?

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The WHO said the H1N1 flu was the fastest moving flu pandemic ever. It took less than 6 weeks to spread as much as others have in 6 months.

Pandemics have existed for centuries since at least the 1500’s and maybe as early as 430 B.C. The fact that H1N1 flu is the fastest spreading germ ever is important. It means that it is highly contagious and it can evolve quickly when pressure to its existence occurs.

A pandemic germ means it spreads worldwide. Years ago due to less people on earth, and slow travel options, it was harder for germs to spread worldwide. Oceans, mountains, and the distance barrier were the biggest hurtle to many germs reaching pandemic status. Many lethal germs stayed local due to the germs “infectious period” not being long enough to reach another host. Flu viruses live/die due to the number of host they infect.

No flu outbreaks are the same. Each one had their own unique traits. However, the H1N1 flu shares a few of the following traits that most flu pandemics have.

1. Up to 50% of the population could catch the germ in the first year. This number could rise to up to 70% after a few years. As of mid November, the CDC said that about 15% of the population in the U.S. had the H1N1 flu during the two waves.

2. All pandemic flu germs change constantly.

3. There were at least six flu pandemics in the last 180 years, all flu pandemics lasted at least 2 years except the 1968 flu. The flu pandemic of 1830 lasted at least 3 years and the 1889 Russian flu lasted for up to 5 years. It had five waves of flu activity.

4. Many flu outbreaks start out MILD and evolve to a much more dangerous phase. The 1918 flu, the worst in history, started out MILD and became the worst killer of all times. It killed from 50 to 100 million people worldwide. The 1830, and 1957 flu also started out very MILD and ended up much more lethal.

The H1N1 flu has a few things that co-exist with it that could make it more lethal.

1. It has the H5N1 bird flu virus that co-inhabits the earth with it. Many experts believe that their mixing of needed traits could be the worst- case scenario creating a disaster.

2. It could mix with the seasonal flu also creating more problems.

3. Or it could just continue evolving like it is possibly creating problems similar to what happened in 1918.

The H1N1 flu mutation that started in the Ukraine about a month ago created a strain. That strain is tailor made to spread all over the world with few problems.

The mutated H1N1 flu germ is trying to adjust to things we are doing to defeat it. The germ sees that we are using antiviral drugs/vaccines to control it. Our use of these tools directly challenges its ability to live/thrive.

The new changes in the germ allow it to connect deeper in the lungs. Once there it spreads rapidly causing excess bleeding and burning out the lungs. The lunges turn black. This could create more deaths.

A virus’s only purpose is to copy itself. When it replicates in large numbers, it satisfies its primal urge. It must have a host in order to replicate and its main goal is to make as many copies of itself as possible. It does this by invading cells and forcing them to make millions of new viruses.

All viruses as a group are highly evolved and very efficient. You could almost call them a perfect infection machine. The flu germ is among the most proficient.

When a virus reproduces, its genes make exact copies of themselves. Well, not exact because there are many mistakes that occur. Flu germs mutate quickly. There name as a group is a “quasi species” or a “mutant swarm.” There are trillions of closely related germs made from a mutant swarm. There will be many versions and the swarm as a whole will have almost every variation. Most of the mutations will have a negative effect on the germ. This will destroy the virus or its ability to infect. The bad part is many of the other changes will adapt quickly to its surroundings. Therefore, when you hear that the virus has mutated making certain drugs useless, the mutant swarm is to blame. A drug/vaccine resistant mutation of a flu virus can emerge within days.

Mother Nature is at work trying to stay one-step ahead of our science. I think we will be able to win this war in the next few years.

The mutated strain shows a low reactor to the H1N1 flu vaccine. This means that our current vaccine will probably not work against it. It also shows resistance to our main antiviral drug Tamiflu. The mutated H1N1 flu has spread to different parts of the world. Countries include Norway, China, Italy, the U.S.A. and others. If you expose 100 people each to the mutated form of H1N1 flu and H1N1 flu, the new strain could spread to more people. It could spread more due to the resistance to the vaccine/antiviral drugs. Natural selection would probably pick the mutated strain to dominate.

The BIG QUESTION IS “IS IT AS CONTAGIOUS AS THE NORMAL H1N1.” If it is or if it picks up that trait, watch out because it could spread around the world before we would be able to control it.

It would take months before our vaccine making companies could produce enough vaccines to protect most of us. If Tamiflu where to become completely useless, then Relenza would have to carry the load.

Recently, there were reports of infection rates dropping but deaths from H1N1 rising. This is probably a direct reaction from the H1N1 flu’s evolution.

Do not panic, there are a lot of if’s and maybe’s. If the worst-case scenario happens, most likely a small percentage of people will pass away. The big reason many people died in past flu outbreaks were due to bacterial infections and pneumonia. Our state of the art science will prevent many of those deaths.

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The swine flu can turn into a disaster due to constant mutations. The virus is changing quickly sidestepping natural barriers and things we do to stop it. Imagine trying to control flu germs whose only goal in life is to grow/spread as much as possible. We put up hurtles to control it. The germ sees the barriers when it infects us. It notices what helps it grow and what does not. The virus will try to defuse anything that prevents it from spreading.

We use vaccines to cause immunity to the germ. The virus changes so that our immune system no longer sees it. This is already happening now with the mutated germ in the Ukraine that shows a low reactor to the vaccine. This means that if this mutated form of the germ were to spread, the vaccine would not work.

Another tool we use to help us control the flu virus is antiviral drugs like Tamiflu/Oseltamivir and Relenza. These drugs up to now have worked well in preventing serious illness or death from the swine flu. However, the mutated form of the swine flu is rapidly becoming resistant to Tamiflu. Tamiflu is our main weapon to control the swine flu now. In the last two weeks, the number of cases resistant to Tamiflu has grown quickly. A December 2 report from the World Health Organization shows there were 57 cases of the resistant strain and in only two weeks, that number moved to 96 cases. Relenza is now the drug we must use to control the swine flu in the future. The point is the virus can quickly defuse our weapons to control it.

Vaccinations of millions of people can cause a virus to change to avoid losing its ability to infect. Therefore, it would try to change to keep growing. If it believes that its existence is threatened, it could do things it would not ordinarily do. This could come about by mixing with another virus to make it stronger and harder to stop. If it could get the ability to grow faster, that would help it infect more people. The mutation in the Ukraine had reports of 250,000 cases a day and over a million in a week. This would help it survive. The mutation increases its survival prospects by connecting deeper in the lungs. This could help it to grow faster and be more deadly. It would be more deadly due to deep penetration and rapid growth in our vital organs the lungs. The seasonal flu attaches to our less vulnerable nose and throat area. The germ could get these needed traits by continuing to evolve by infecting billions of people. On the other hand, it could reassort with another germ like the H5N1 virus that could help it grow faster in the lungs killing its victim. The H5N1 germ has a kill rate now of over 50%. The swine flu virus however does not need to reassort with H5N1 to become much more deadly.

The H1N1 swine flu’s mother was the infamous record-breaking Spanish H1N1 flu that killed between 50 and a 100 million people worldwide. There are some missing elements in the swine flu’s structure compared to the 1918 strain but maybe the other traits will evolve over time. There are a few key things that both mother and son have in common. Both attach deeply in the lungs causing many to die due to a cytokine storm that would destroy the lungs causing them to turn black before death. Also, the people they killed the most were and are the youngest and strongest. Instead, the seasonal flu kills the people over 65 years old the most. In addition, the 1918 Spanish flu started much the same way as the swine flu. Both germs were mild initially but turned very nasty after evolving to a much more dangerous form.

The 1918 Spanish flu started in late January and early February. By October and November, it had reached its peak in killing efficiency. That means it took approximately 10 months to a year to reach its peak. All pandemics are different. However, if the swine flu’s first appearance was in April, then we could have a very interesting flu later this year. I would guess sometime in the winter flu season in the northern hemisphere. Look out for fireworks.

With the anti-viral drugs, soon to be non-effective and the vaccine useless against the mutated strain, the best way to control the flu is through prevention.

Flu viruses love cold weather and this winter looks like it is going to be a cold one. This cold weather will allow the virus to mutate even more possibly causing many problems.

In summary look at the following reasons, the virus could turn into a disaster in the coming winter flu season.

A. The mutated strain that started in the Ukraine a few weeks ago has already spread to at least the following countries:

1. Norway
2. Japan
3. Brazil
4. China
5. United States
6. Netherlands
7. France
8. Italy
9. Mexico

The WHO (World Health Organization) said on November 20 "The mutations appear to occur sporadically and spontaneously. To date, no links between the small numbers of patients infected with the mutated virus have been found and the mutation does not appear to spread." Remember that the mutated virus was first in the Ukraine where a very large number of people apparently had the virus.

B. The mutated virus infected 250,000 a day and over a million people in a week.
This germ moves fast.

C. The vaccine has a low reactor rating with the mutated virus, which means that the vaccine will not protect you against the mutated strain.

D. The virus is rapidly mutating to make our antiviral medicines useless against it.

E. The swine flu H1N1 virus has the worlds must deadly ancestor as a mother.

G. The 1918 Spanish H1N1 Flu took 10 months to 1 year before it reached its peak of destructive ability.

H. The world has another killer in the H5N1 bird flu, which is endemic all over Asia and Africa that could easily mix with the H1N1 virus creating a real problem.

The 1918 Spanish flu would appear in waves lasting 6 to 8 weeks separated by relative calm. The swine flu could during the time of the “Quiet before the Storm” when it disappears from sight become much more dangerous. That is when the mutations mentioned above could evolve to create a grown up swine flu. Get a free control flu manual by going to this link http://birdflusecrets.com. A 165 pages interactive/multimedia e-Book manual will help you learn quick and easy how to control the swine flu.

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When a virus first makes the jump from a pig/bird germ to a human germ, it is much like the birth of a baby. It will have a lot to learn before it reaches it full potential. As the baby learns new things, it will grow and barely look like it looked at birth. The baby will reach a point in its life were it will peak and then go down hill just like a professional athlete. This cycle is the same for pandemic flu germs.

The virus will learn through its mutations. Flu germs are infamous for mixing/mutating. Each virus is unique. The swine flu H1N1 has been around for just a few short months and already it has changed a lot. Keep reading this article to find out how far the virus has come. A flu pandemic can last up to three years. Use your common sense to project where the swine flu H1N1 will be a year from now. Consider how far it has come in just a few short months and you will see its true impact.

Flu germs never stop changing. In the 1918 and 1957 pandemics the second time around was much worse than when it first appeared. It made a few mutations before the second wave.

There are three things on top of the expert’s stop flu list that worry them:

1. The germ will learn how to get more contagious. (Already happened)

2. The germ will become resistant to our best antiviral drugs. (Happening)

3. The germ will mix with other germs and get more deadly.

Two out of the three concerns are virtually in the bag. The last one I believe is just a matter of time. Take this current event.

Google this article Indonesia: Eight more suspected H5N1 cases, and a possible death. A few days ago a person died in Indonesia of the bird flu. Seven other people were suspected of having the germ and had severe H5N1 bird flu symptoms. There were many dead chickens found near the person who died home. That person had cooked and served one of the infected birds to cause everyone to get sick. Now think about this scenario. It happens again but this time one out of eight people already had a mild case of the swine flu. Bang the two germs mix and presto. We have a mutated strain. This will happen in some way or another before it is over. Use your common sense. The World health Organisation says that up to two billion people will catch the germ.

It is a common concern among experts in the field that a pandemic could occur or worsen due to genetic reassortment. The swine flu virus could mix its genes with a host of other strains that could make it more deadly.

Reassortment

Flu pandemics occur when a new virus starts to spread in people who have little or no immunity. When a person is sick with the swine flu and the H5N1 flu at the same time a mixing could happen. The two germs could mix genetic code in the same cell. The new strain will have traits from both viruses maybe gaining ability it did not have before. The H5N1 germ could get the ability to spread easily from human to human. Or the swine flu could become more lethal. Reassortment was the reason for two major flu pandemics the H2N2 in 1957 and the H3N2 in 1968. It was a bird virus and a human virus.

The bird flu H5N1 strain in Asia is more entrenched than any other in history as measured by its affect on the area. Over 100 million poultry have been killed to slow down the germs spread.

The World Health Organization is looking for signs that the swine flu has mixed with the bird flu. Not only the H5N1 virus but mixing with any flu virus could make it worse.

The WHO is watching how the swine flu is changing in the south part of the globe which is their normal flu season. The question is will it reassort with the normal flu. Indonesia has the largest number of deaths from bird flu than all other countries in the world. Indonesia is in the southern half of the world. H5N1 is all over the place. People/pigs catch the germ a lot. Can the swine flu spread to millions of people/pigs in this region and not mix? Remember, the swine flu could be around for up to 3 years meeting up with other flu germs.

The Germ Is Even More Contagious NOW! The first sign of the H1N1 virus was in April, in 3 short months it has all ready mutated so that it can spread to more people. It learned by infecting millions of people.

Before the 1800's there were less than a billion people on earth with slow ways to travel, germs could stay away from each other. Today, there are over 6.8 billion people on earth with fast ways to travel. Flu germs are infamous for mutating with other germs.

Experts say that New York alone could have 500,000 people who caught the virus. And the U.S. could have over 1 million people who have all ready caught the germ. Many people at this time have little or no signs of the flu. So they do not go to the hospital to get a test.

Britain predicts they will get 100,000 swine flu cases a day by the end of August. German experts warn of swine flu mutation problems. They think the H1N1 swine flu virus has started to mutate. And they warned that these mutations could cause the germ to be more aggressive in the fall.

Our Number One Antiviral Drug is Fading
Tamiflu is our number one antiviral drug to stop the flu. In the past few weeks, there have been Tamiflu resistant cases reported in Denmark, Japan, Brazil, and Hong Kong. One of the cases involved some one from San Francisco. You do not have to be a genius to predict that soon tamiflu will be all but useless.

Pandemics evolve when infected host meet. The more contacts in the pool of host the greater the chances of a virus mutating. The best hosts are poultry, humans, and pigs. All three can carry/pass the germ. In 1968, the pandemic started in China and at that time, there were 790 million humans, 5.2 million pigs and 12.3 million birds. Since, then there are 500 million more people in china, 500 million more pigs, and over 12 billion more poultry. This trend is about the same all over Asia/world. This makes a huge mixing bowl for viruses. The H1 flu virus does not need a huge number of hosts to mutate. But, the more host with the virus the more chance the germ will change to be more lethal. Add that truth with the huge growth in travel over the past 50 years to see the swine flu mixing with many other viruses.

You can catch the swine flu up to 7 or more days after a sick person catches it. In other words, if they still show signs of the flu you can catch it from them. There are no set numbers of days a sick person will stop spreading the germ. If you are in quarantine, do not leave until you show no signs of the flu. The 1918 flu had an incubation period of 5 days. This extra time the H1N1 germ has helps it spread more. Also, many people will get the germ and not know they have it, which means it will spread even more. The more it spreads means it has a better chance to infect someone already sick with a different virus.

Swine Flu Spreads to Pigs

Scientists in Germany have found that the swine flu can spread to hogs. Experts at Germany’s national animal health research lab put pigs infected with the swine flu H1N1 with other pigs. They found that three days later the swine flu H1N1 spread to all the pigs.

You have read above about how pigs are great host to spread and mix germs. These germs can easily be transferred back to humans after it mixes from whatever source. The big problem is there are many pigs in Indonesia that have the bird flu H5N1 germ. See H5N1 Confirmed in Swine in Indonesia. Indonesia by the way is in the southern hemisphere where the swine flu is spreading quickly.
We are talking about a super contagious swine flu infecting people/pigs in huge numbers. Add that to the fact that the bird flu is endemic in the area. This increases the chances that the H5N1 or any other flu virus like the H7 strain will meet with the H1N1 and mutate to a much more deadly form.

Given the present swine flu situation plus recent pandemic history and using common sense, I believe the swine flu without question will be one of the biggest tests for people in human history.

I Refuse To SUGARCOAT The Situation! I see too many people walking around like everything is normal. Believe me, it is not. This could get very serious. You need to look yourself in the mirror and ask the question. What happens if this is a major event and my family has to go through major pain including death if I do not act now? People need to get their heads out of the sand and realize this could get very serious in just a few weeks from now!

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FREE Flu Stop manual download here NOW! A Story in the Jakarta Globe reported by Antara on March 26. Informs that the Health experts in Garut, West Java Province has had 46 cases of bird flu in humans up to March 23. The important thing is four people died. And 36 people lived. Also, there were five suspect cases. On March 23, 2009, WHO had Indonesia at 141 cases and 115 deaths. This adds up to 82.14% the highest death rate in the world. All of a sudden you have four people die out of 40 which is a death rate of 10%. This is by far the lowest death rate in the world for the H5N1 virus. Either the virus has changed in a big way or the health experts are lying about the numbers.

Hendy Budiman, head of the district health agency, should know what is going on in his own district. Siti Fadilah Supari, Indonesia's Health Minister runs the show. Mr. Budiman reports what she wants. I think that this report is right for this reason: they are trying to spin the news that the virus now is less lethal than before. That means that the virus has sacrificed its knack for killing to spread more easily to people. This is a common thing that pandemic viruses do.

There was a lot of media attention on 11-14-2008 the Wahidin Sudirohusodo Hospital, Makassar, South Sulawesi treated 17 patients for BIRD FLU the patients were isolated. A few days later the “Bird Flu Suspects were all Declared Negatives” I think at this time they found out that a lot of people had survived the H5N1 virus. They did not say so then due to the extreme media coverage. Now with their own timing they let the cat out of the bag.

The average reader would think that more people surviving the H5N1 virus are a good thing. But it actually shows that the virus is moving closer to a pandemic type of virus. In the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic the H1N1 virus killed 2.5% of the people who caught it.

The most deadly virus to the world is one that has a low death rate. This mutation could have happened in Garut.

When a virus is less deadly to each person that catches it, it can hide not killing its host. If the host dies before they get a chance to pass it to the next person, it will reduce its spread. A pandemic virus spreads easily in an undetectable way. Also, for a longer period. This is what separates a normal deadly virus from a pandemic virus.

If the virus has now mutated to a less lethal form, they have told everyone but without all the hype that was present before. In the state the virus could be in, it could easily slip out of the country. The pandemic might seem to have started any other place in the world. The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic was said to have started in the United States but it developed somewhere else first.

Japan to Double Anti-Flu Drug Stockpile for Pandemic (Update1)

Japan to Double Anti-Flu Drug Stockpile for Pandemic (Update1)

By Kanoko Matsuyama

Nov. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Japan plans to almost double
its stockpile of anti-flu drugs in case of a pandemic that
could kill millions of people worldwide, the government said.

The country will hold medicine for 45 percent of its 128
million people from 23 percent now, according to guidelines
by the Cabinet Office, the ministry of health and other
ministries. No timeframe was provided to boost the stockpile.

Governments and the World Health Organization are
stockpiling medicines in case of an avian influenza pandemic
in humans. A flu pandemic could kill 71 million people
worldwide and lead to a ``major global recession'' costing
more than $3 trillion, according to a worst-case scenario
outlined by the World Bank last month.

GlaxoSmithKline Plc's Relenza will account for about 10
percent of Japan's supplies and the government will also
consider using drugs under development, Yoshinori Ito, a
counselor at the Cabinet Office, told journalists in Tokyo
today.

Emerging resistance to Roche Holding AG's Tamiflu, also
known by its chemical name oseltamivir, has led governments
to consider Relenza as an option for reserves. Japan held
Tamiflu for 28 million people as of March, and has Relenza for
1.35 million.


The medicines offer a defense against the H5N1 strain of
avian flu that has infected at least 387 people in 15 countries
in the past five years, killing 63 percent of them.

To contact the reporter on this story: Kanoko Matsuyama in
Tokyo at kmatsuyama2@bloomberg.net.

Last Updated: November 27, 2008 23:51 EST