[Marxism] Flu origins

[Craig Brozefsky]

"Joaquin Bustelo" <jbustelo at gmail.com> writes:

> I have no interest in acquitting or convicting Smithfield's half-owned farm
> in Mexico. I DO have an interest in American leftists who are so hapless
> they flail about, polemical rapiers in hand, cut off their OWN heads, and
> then proudly hold their own heads up high, as if they were intent to prove
> to all and sundry that there are no brains in them.

Don't forget these idiotic american leftists!

http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=can-swine-flu-be-blamed-on-industri-09-05-01

Of particular interest is the link to an interview with a CDC
virologists who discusses the lineage of the virus and it's origin in
hog farming, but also mixing with multiple steps where pig->human
tranmission occured, and then back, resulting in a mix of NA and Asian
viral components.

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/04/exclusive-cdc-h.html

> Then there's the following clause: "although new information suggests that
> this strain of the flu may actually have origins in the US as well as Asia."
> Not to mention Canada. But what interests me in the actual PROOF left by our
> author that s/he doesn't have a clue what is being talked about. And that is
> the assertion that this strain of the flu "may actually have origins in the
> US as well as Asia." 

This is what the CDC virologists is suggesting.

-- 
Sincerely, Craig Brozefsky              <craig at red-bean.com>