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Subject: Re: Instructions for the Morphology Online Seminar

Author:
Joana Arzberger

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Date Posted: 17:59:42 10/02/09 Fri
In reply to: Joana Arzberger 's message, "Re: Instructions for the Morphology Online Seminar" on 17:42:34 10/02/09 Fri

>According to Biosurveillance, itself part of Veratect,
>a US Pentagon and Government-linked epidemic reporting
>center, on April 6, 2009 local health officials
>declared a health alert due to a respiratory disease
>outbreak in La Gloria, Perote Municipality, Veracruz
>State, Mexico.
>
>They reported, ‘Sources characterized the event as a
>‘strange’ outbreak of acute respiratory infection,
>which led to bronchial pneumonia in some pediatric
>cases. According to a local resident, symptoms
>included fever, severe cough, and large amounts of
>phlegm. Health officials recorded 400 cases that
>sought medical treatment in the last week in La
>Gloria, which has a population of 3,000; officials
>indicated that 60% of the town’s population
>(approximately 1,800 cases) has been affected. No
>precise timeframe was provided, but sources reported
>that a local official had been seeking health
>assistance for the town since February.’ What they
>later say is ‘strange’ is not the form of the illness
>but the time of year as most flu cases occur in
>Mexico in the period October to February.
>The report went on to note, ‘Residents claimed that
>three pediatric cases, all under two years of age,
>died from the outbreak. However, health officials
>stated that there was no direct link between the
>pediatric deaths and the outbreak; they stated the
>three fatal cases were "isolated" and "not related" to
>each other.’
>Then, most revealingly, the aspect of the story which
>has been largely ignored by major media, they
>reported, ‘Residents believed the outbreak had been
>caused by contamination from pig breeding farms
>located in the area. They believed that the farms,
>operated by Granjas Carroll, polluted the atmosphere
>and local water bodies, which in turn led to the
>disease outbreak. According to residents, the company
>denied responsibility for the outbreak and attributed
>the cases to "flu." However, a municipal health
>official stated that preliminary investigations
>indicated that the disease vector was a type of fly
>that reproduces in pig waste and that the outbreak was
>linked to the pig farms.’4
>Since the dawn of American ‘agribusiness,’ a project
>initiated with funding by the Rockefeller Foundation
>in the 1950s to turn farming into a pure profit
>maximization business, US pig or hog production has
>been transformed into a highly efficient, mass
>production industrialized enterprise from birth to
>slaughter. Pigs are caged in what are called Factory
>Farms, industrial concentrations which are run with
>the efficiency of a Dachau or Bergen-Belsen
>concentration camp. They are all conceived by
>artificial insemination and once born, are regularly
>injected with antibiotics, not because of illnesses
>which abound in the hyper-crowded growing pens, but in
>order to make them grow and add weight faster. Turn
>around time to slaughter is a profit factor of highest
>priority. The entire operation is vertically
>integrated from conception to slaughter to transport
>distribution to supermarket.
Source: http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13408

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