hulugu
May 1, 2009, 01:03 AM
According to this article (http://www.narconews.com/Issue57/article3512.html), the H1N1 virus known colloquially as the "Swine Flu" may be the result of the massive pig farm in Mexico owned by an American company.
US and Mexico authorities claim that neither knew about the “swine flu” outbreak until April 24. But after hundreds of residents of a town in Veracruz, Mexico, came down with its symptoms, the story had already hit the Mexican national press by April 5. The daily La Jornada reported:
Clouds of flies emanate from the rusty lagoons where the Carroll Ranches business tosses the fecal wastes of its pig farms, and the open-air contamination is already generating an epidemic of respiratory infections in the town of La Gloria, in the Perote Valley, according to Town Administrator Bertha Crisóstomo López.
The town has 3,000 inhabitants, hundreds of whom reported severe flu symptoms in March.
CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta, reporting from Mexico, has identified a La Gloria child who contracted the first case of identified “swine flu” in February as “patient zero,” five-year-old Edgar Hernández, now a survivor of the disease.
By April 15 – nine days before Mexican federal authorities of the regime of President Felipe Calderon acknowledged any problem at all – the local daily newspaper, Marcha, reported that a company called Carroll Ranches was “the cause of the epidemic.”
As the article mentions, Smithfield farms was an American company, but was fined by the EPA for violating several laws while dumping pig waste directly into local waterways. The EPA fine also required the company to build a waste-treatment facility.
While several 'conservative' commentators have worried themselves over illegal immigration, it seems that the H1N1 virus could be a direct result of the poor sanitation employed by large-scale agribusiness.
US and Mexico authorities claim that neither knew about the “swine flu” outbreak until April 24. But after hundreds of residents of a town in Veracruz, Mexico, came down with its symptoms, the story had already hit the Mexican national press by April 5. The daily La Jornada reported:
Clouds of flies emanate from the rusty lagoons where the Carroll Ranches business tosses the fecal wastes of its pig farms, and the open-air contamination is already generating an epidemic of respiratory infections in the town of La Gloria, in the Perote Valley, according to Town Administrator Bertha Crisóstomo López.
The town has 3,000 inhabitants, hundreds of whom reported severe flu symptoms in March.
CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta, reporting from Mexico, has identified a La Gloria child who contracted the first case of identified “swine flu” in February as “patient zero,” five-year-old Edgar Hernández, now a survivor of the disease.
By April 15 – nine days before Mexican federal authorities of the regime of President Felipe Calderon acknowledged any problem at all – the local daily newspaper, Marcha, reported that a company called Carroll Ranches was “the cause of the epidemic.”
As the article mentions, Smithfield farms was an American company, but was fined by the EPA for violating several laws while dumping pig waste directly into local waterways. The EPA fine also required the company to build a waste-treatment facility.
While several 'conservative' commentators have worried themselves over illegal immigration, it seems that the H1N1 virus could be a direct result of the poor sanitation employed by large-scale agribusiness.
