Plague of black lung is sweeping through Europe

The new disease originating in the Ukraine and slowly spreading through Europe is said to be very similar to the 1918 flu that killed millions. Reports claim the pneumonic plague is a combination of three different types of flu strains. It’s being called black lung because in x rays of victims their lungs are black.

The President of Ukraine said “People are dying. The epidemic is killing doctors. This is absolutely inconceivable in the 21st Century. We have sent the analysis to Kiev. We don’t believe its H1N1 swine flu. Neither do we know what kind of pneumonia it is.”

The black lung is being called some sort of viral pneumonia and is said to be very aggressive killing hundreds of people. Officials have contacted the WHO (World Health Organization) and a team of specialists are investigating.

There are conspiracy theories to this new epidemic and this one is perhaps the strangest yet.

Universities, schools and kindergartens have been closed, public meetings have been banned and theaters shut. Last week several border crossings in the country were also closed.

Last night reports emerged of profiteering over face masks, which have sold out since the outbreak. There are also incidents of anti-virus medication being sold for exorbitant prices. A spokesman for the World Health Organization said: “We do not have a time scale for the results of the tests in London, although some preliminary results have been obtained. I cannot tell you what they are.

“We did not have enough of the virus samples so we will have to grow some more before we can come to a conclusive decision about its nature.”

Neighboring Poland has called on the EU to take action, fearing the mystery virus may spread west wards.

Prime Minister Donald Tusk has written to European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and the Swedish Prime Minister, Fredrik Reinfeldt, who holds the EU presidency, saying: “The character of this threat demands that rapid action be undertaken at the European Union level.”

Russia, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary and Romania, countries that border Ukraine, have already launched health checks on Ukrainians entering their territory.

Slovakia has closed two of five border crossings.

A doctor in Western Ukraine who did not want to be named, said:” We have carried out post mortems on two victims and found their lungs are as black as charcoal.

“They look like they have been burned. It’s terrifying.”