Did a lab leak cause the H1N1 pandemic?

(thought ya’ll would like to read this. I endose no views one way or the other at this time.-cottontop)
LONDON, June 30 – It has swept across the world killing at least 300 people and infecting thousands more. Yet the swine flu pandemic might not have happened had it not been for the accidental release of [...]

Egypt: detained 12 people suspect bird flu

Detained 12 people suspected of having bird flu in the lake, Menya
Sunday, June 28, 2009 – 14:45
Shaaban, Hassan Fathy Abdel-Ghaffar
Damanhour hospital fevers were detained 6 people suspected of having bird flu, following the emergence of the disease with symptoms similar to a high temperature and pain in the bones and difficulty in breathing, sore throat.
Received [...]

CDC Weekly Seasonal Influenza Data

Week 24, ending June 20, 2009

Argentina: Hospitals Verging on Collapse

Recombinomics Commentary 23:28
June 28, 2009
Meanwhile, health organizations said that the number of people infected in the country “is substantially greater” than the official toll and that hospitals are “verging on collapse”
The above comments on the state of health care health care in Argentina in general and Buenos Aires in particular due to the exploding number [...]

United States: New York City swine flu case tally could be as high as 500,000, CDC says

BY John Lauinger
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Saturday, June 27th 2009, 12:28 PM
New research estimates that half a million New Yorkers have been infected by swine flu – casting doubts on the city’s claim that transmission of the H1N1 virus has declined.
The alarming data was released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which estimated [...]

Five countries More, including Indonesia, were affected by swine flu

By editorial staff of 25/06/2009 @ 03:11
The pandemic of pig flu continued to spread and about five countries more, including Indonesia. The organisation of the health of the WHO world reported the case of pig flu that was first in Iraq, Ivory Coast, Cape Verde, Indonesia and Cambodia. WHO words of the six affected people [...]

New site from cottontop

Ladies Only Please
I have put together a new website for the ladies who are on the road to starting their companies. If you ladies like my work on Flu News Network, then  I think your’ll love my work on my new site. I’d be honored if ya’ll would have a look.
http://studiorenaissance.cloverpad.org/
Hope everyone has a great [...]

Canada: MB: Chiefs ask for state of emergency over flu

The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs is calling on the provincial and federal governments to declare a state of emergency on Manitoba First Nations.
“With the H1N1 virus spreading rapidly through the communities and supplies taking nearly a month to be delivered, the First Nations people are at too much risk for this situation to continue any [...]

US company makes first batch of swine flu vaccine

A US company that was awarded a 35-million-dollar contract to develop an influenza vaccine using insect cell technology has produced a first batch against (A)H1N1 flu, company boss Dan Adams said.
“We turned out our first batch of doses — about 100,000 — against (A)H1N1 flu last week and we’re continuing to manufacture it,” Adams, chief [...]

Confirmed A/H1N1 flu cases surge to 6,457 in Canada

2009-06-23 11:01:55      Print
   OTTAWA, June 22 (Xinhua) — A total of 747 new A/H1N1 flu cases were registered in Canada in the past three days, bringing the total confirmed cases to 6,457, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) said on Monday.
   Two deaths were reported, both in Quebec, bringing the death toll [...]