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Swine flu cases found on U.S. bases in Kuwait

Don’t look at me, I had nothing to do with this!

About 18 people on U.S. military bases in Kuwait have tested positive for swine flu, a U.S. Central Command spokeswoman said Friday.

They are the first cases reported in Kuwait. It remains unclear whether the virus has spread to the civilian population.

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Thanks Latifa!

68 replies on “Swine flu cases found on U.S. bases in Kuwait”

ok now the US should give us all the vaccinations for free…
or we’ll have to burn all the bases as a contingency plane!

US soldiers infected with swine flu arrive in Kuwait but country is flu free
7:27:00 PM
KUWAIT, May 23 (KUNA) — US soldiers who used Kuwait as a transit point were infected with swine flu, Kuwait Health Ministry said Saturday.
Health officials discovered that the US soldiers were infected with swine flu once they arrived in Kuwait, so they were completely quarantined in their military base, Health Undersecretary Dr. Ibrahim Al-Abdulhadi told KUNA.
He said the American soldiers, whose names or ages were not disclosed, arrived in Kuwait on transit, they were examined and given appropriate medication, he affirmed.
Most of infectees left Kuwait already and the rest were treated in the hospital of the military base, whose name nor location were not mentioned, and they would be leaving the country later, said Al-Abdulhadi.
Kuwait is safe, he confirmed, and was following recommendations and measures of the World Health Organization (WHO).
He said the Health Ministry would be holding a news conference tomorrow to give more details about the US soldiers’ case. (end) mah.bs KUNA 231927 May 09NNNN

https://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2000380&Language=en

how ironic … we screen all incoming people that fly into kuwait, but put trust in the US base to take care of it’s soldiers … what do you know…

@ teach: loooooooooool 😀 exactly!!
from the filipinas to the bengalis, and once it hits them we’re screwed . . .

To stop the swine flu from spreading, don’t let the soldiers out of their camps… and also make sure to cook the pork before you eat, if possible pre-heat it again! 🙂

Gilbert- take a bus/ taxi down the fahaheel, get off at the 210, turn right and sit and watch the filipinas pull up with all the ageing US contractors and GIs off base………….you’ll get what I mean.

it figures that the first people to bring us this plague are the Americans , they always bring us the latest and the newest .

People there’s no need to fear underdog is here
Anyway swine flu is a mutated strain of bird flu mixed with 1911 h1n1 meaning it enters the body right away without any anti bodies defence
But it’s like the everyday flu but with higher attack rate it’s just a newly mutated flu that every human has with out any natural immunity if it infects you once it won’t bother you again same as the bird flu because some how they are mixed together we either wait for a vaccine or we gain natural immunity by getting infected with it and then get cured

Wow you are a panicking bunch.

Swine flu is not the black plague people make it sound out to be.

God Bless America! It’s all part of the biological warfare that the US is launching ( CIA’s secret World War Three)! The N1H1 virus is “manufactured” and put together in the US army secret labs where they inject the US soldiers with the virus and the healing vaccine at the same time. The human body’s immune system does not contain the antibodies to fight this virus as it is “made in the labs and not made by nature”. This way, they will contaminate the world via soldiers just like they did back in 1918 with the Spanish Flu. This is done to reduce the number of people in the world as there isn’t enough resources and water for the over-populated planet we live in. Also, on the long run, people of the third world will die the most as they are poor and can’t afford the vaccine or contain the spreading of the virus, which is the cold war I was referring to above. This is the latest war against “terrorism” in the third world!!!!!! I wonder who are the real terrorists here????How barbaric.

@teach – someone is just an itsy bitsy bitchy these days.

@loza – symtoms of your frontal lobotomy are showing.

If swine flu is a mutated strain of bird flu mixed with 1911 h1n1,will it evolve into camel flu?

They were most probably on a civilian’s airplane and I sure hope they contacted all people on board; otherwise that’s how it’s gonna spread.

😀

@loza
ok first it H1N1 this virus is as old as hell it first showed up in a pig farm but it was an easy to beat virus bt just to make sure they killed the pigs there
but some how it has mutated i mean realy mutated and mixed together with birdflu how the fuck did that happened ? i dont fuckin know but its not natural some one indeed manufacured it maybe it was a mistake by tring to make a vaccine or maybe a bio. weapon but i can tell you the H1N1 first strain was week but it has mutated in ways you can never tell and.

i think you stole some of my speach loza
“””””The human body’s immune system does not contain the antibodies to fight this virus””””

As usual the ‘whites’ get a salaamalaikum and ahlan and get by without even a cursory flu check. 18? God knows the exact figure.
So what if they come on a military plane and deplane at another runway/exit. Shouldn’t there be a check wherever it is?
And shouldn’t they have been checked when they left the USA ?

Latest is that they have left Kuwait.
Is it too soon to leave a sigh of relief? Are we safe yet?

And just when you thought it was safe to go to the malls.

To 41 and 42: Please do some readings to educate yourselves! Or maybe internet searching would probably be easier for you guys!!
To 49: I didn’t copy your speech dear. These words are very simple common words that can be easily written. Ok, maybe great minds think alike! Not intentional, I assure you, pure coincidence!!

And guys, let’s watch our language here. No need for vulgar words! Let’s be as civil as we can possibly be!

@desersky
H1N1 first appeared in a pig farm in 1911 it got mutated over ages but it got some wierd mutations i mean realy strange they mixed together and mutated in the same time meaning the new virus is stronger heck maybe in decade it will mix with canaine flu ? but theres no signs of camel flu yet 😛 and trust me camels wont get infected easily THEY LIVE IN TH DESERT and the hotter the sun the less likly that virus’s will surivive 😛

here’s how it mutated “The story of the new strain of swine influenza now circling the world actually starts a lot farther back than the 20th century, but the year the “Spanish influenza” appeared is a good place to start.

From the second week in March 1918, when soldiers at an Army camp in Kansas began to get ill, until the final mini-waves of 1920, the Spanish flu infected about 97 percent of the people on Earth and killed at least 50 million of them.

The virus probably came from waterfowl, which carry dozens of different flu viruses. At some point, either before or after it got into human beings, the virus got into pigs, a species that can be infected by avian and human strains. It has stayed in swines ever since, and in people for almost as long.

The swine-origin influenza A (H1N1) virus circulating in Mexico, the United States and Canada, and present in two dozen other countries, is a descendant of the Spanish flu H1N1 virus. In the past 90 years, though, a lot of new blood — metaphorically speaking — has entered its lineage. It does not look or act much like its notorious ancestor.

This might be a good place to address this A and H and N business.

Influenza virus is part of a family called Orthomyxoviridae. There are four sub-classifications — influenza virus A, influenza virus B, influenza virus C and thogotoviruses. It’s like citrus fruit, which encompass oranges, lemons, limes, grapefruit, etc.

Influenza A and B cause illness in people; the others almost never do. There are many, many types of influenza A but only one influenza B.

The diversity of influenza A arises from variations in the two proteins on its surface, called hemagglutinin (abbreviated H or HA) and neuraminidase (N or NA). Together, the proteins make up the face that a flu virus presents to the immune system of a bird, a pig or a human being.

In this setting, the face’s appearance is no small matter. The immune system’s ability to recognize a virus is one of the first steps in stopping it.

One strategy involves antibodies. They attack only if they are tailor-made for the virus, which requires the immune system to get a good look at the surface proteins. The immune system can offer the best protection if it has seen the pathogen before and has the right antibodies ready.

Think of H as hair and N as nose, two features for learning and remembering the identity of a virus. In the world of influenza A, there are 15 subtypes of H (straight blond, wavy red, short black, kinky black, etc.) and nine subtypes of N (Roman, ski jump, flared, long, etc.). Each subtype is numbered — H1N1, H3N2, H9N2 and so forth. ”

HAHA looks like our good old H1N1 mutated into something far more powerful H1Z1 this little virus restart’s your heart ? wtf ”

There has been a small outbreak of “zombism” in London due to mutation of the H1N1 virus into new strain: H1Z1.

Similar to a scare originally found in Cambodia back in 2005, victims of a new strain of the swine flu virus H1N1 have been reported in London.

After death, this virus is able to restart the heart of it’s victim for up to two hours after the initial demise of the person where the individual behaves in extremely violent ways from what is believe to be a combination of brain damage and a chemical released into blood during “resurrection.”

The World Health Organization (WHO) has raised the alert to phase six, its highest level, and advised governments to activate pandemic contingency plans.

In Mexico, the epicentre of the outbreak, President Felipe Calderon urged people to stay at home over the next five days.”
this virus makes zombies now WOOHOO

ohh yeah let me show you the zombies untill now””””
CONFIRMED CASES
Map
Mexico: 168 suspected deaths – eight confirmed – 12 zombies
US: one death, at least 91 confirmed cases
New Zealand: 13 confirmed cases
Canada: 19 confirmed cases
UK: 5 confirmed cases
Spain: 10 confirmed cases
Germany: 3 confirmed cases
Israel, Costa Rica: 2 confirmed cases each
The Netherland, Switzerland, Austria, Peru: 1 confirmed case each

There are many cases elsewhere – including the US, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Israel, and New Zealand.

BBC health correspondent Mark McGrith says the raising of the WHO alert on Wednesday suggests a global epidemic, or pandemic, is imminent.

In the latest developments:

* China’s health minister says that the country’s scientists have developed a “sensitive and fast” test for spotting swine flu in conjunction with US scientists and the WHO. The country has recorded no incidence of the flu yet. There methods, however, have been uneffective in spotting the H1Z1 strain. “”””””””

Roxas

You exactly understand what I meant ( Spanish flu, soldiers…etc.)! You just said it in a fancy scientific way! Just make sure you continue your search to know why the human body cannot fight this pathogene as it does with other viruses? It’s because it’s a man-made virus! Also, there are certain races that cannot fight the virus ( I wonder who these races are, easy to guess though!!) Also, to assure you that’s it’s an American biological warfare, look up Donald Rumsfeld, back in 1994, as the chairman of the board of A California Biotech firm, named Gilead Sciences Inc., which manifactures Tamiflu, the vaccine for Bird Flu and eventually Swine Flu.

And for those of you who are still doubting, check the sites below or google search many others on the net that are trusted sources as well:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-rumsfeld-makes-5m-killing-on-bird-flu-drug-469599.html

https://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=1169

https://truth11.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/swine-flu-bio-weapon-and-profits/

https://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=1169

https://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/86537/index.php

wait, I’m a little confused here. So if someone gets infected with the swine-flu….they turn into zombies afterwards or what?!

@roxas;
Dont you find this a bit … unbelievable?

Anyway, i have searched around the internet, and havent found anything to support what you say.
Actually, a few articles have talked about this and described it as a HAOX.

The future weapon of mass destruction we should most fear is not a nuke.

Rather, it is a genetically engineered plague, a plague no one has ever seen before and against which no one has any immunity. In the time it would take to identify the new disease, develop a vaccine, distribute the vaccine and have it become effective, modern societies could suffer death rates equivalent to those of the Black Death: up to 2/3 of the population.

Be Afraid.. Be Very Afraid…

FYI.. this disease came from Mexico how come u just mention Philippines only??? few cases only they found in the Philippines..and did you heard that there’s Filipino who is infected here in kuwait???

kate – teach is juz being mean coz she’s uneducated, racist and bad mouthed person. Maybe you didn’t get what she’s trying to say.

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