Baxter Pharmaceuticals rides to rescue us from swine flu

April 25, 6:53 PMNY Church & State ExaminerJean Leonard

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As the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a warning that the new flu strain that has killed up to 68 people in Mexico could become a pandemic, officials have confirmed that eight school children in New York were infected, and two other cases were confirmed in Kansas. Add these to the eight cases reported in California and Texas, and it's pretty plain that this one has spread rapidly.

But never fear, Baxter is here! They have confirmed that they are working with WHO on a potential vaccine to curb the spread of the swine flu outbreak.

Upon learning about the swine flu outbreak in Mexico yesterday, Baxter requested a virus sample from WHO to do laboratory testing for potentially developing an experimental vaccine," company spokesman Christopher Bona told the Tribune this afternoon. "Baxter has research and development and manufacturing pandemic planning expertise to rapidly develop candidate vaccines against potentially emerging influenza viruses.”

If you'd never heard of Baxter before, this might give you a nice, warm fuzzy. Unfortunately, they were in the news last month, although mainstream media in the United States mysteriously ignored the whole story.

• Despite reports that Illinois-based pharmaceutical company Baxter International Inc. somehow managed to distribute flu vaccine contaminated with live bird flu virus to Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Germany
• Despite the report that this only came to light when a subcontractor in the Czech Republic inoculated ferrets with the product and they died
• Despite the report that Baxter confirmed the contamination, and the WHO is "closely monitoring" the situation
• Despite reports that mixing the two viruses would make them extremely potent and contagious
• Despite reports from the medical community that the contamination could not possibly have been an accident
• Despite speculation in Czech newspapers that the contamination was a deliberate attempt to create a pandemic, for which Baxter would stand ready to profit through their vaccines
• Despite all these reports that were circulating in March, mainstream media apparently didn't think this was a story and never reported it.

Another curious point is that this new virus, called swine influenza A H1N1, “has genes from North American swine and avian influenza, human influenza, and swine influenza normally found in Asia and Europe, said Nancy Cox, chief of the CDC's Influenza Division.”

Add a little reminder about the “swine flu fiasco” of 1976, in which one soldier died from swine flu, and “hundreds of Americans were killed or seriously injured by the inoculation the government gave them to stave off the virus,” and I hope your confidence level has been reduced.

I hope that you will place your trust in something other than the WHO and Baxter Pharmaceuticals and a government inoculation program.

It is better to take refuge in the LORD Than to trust in man.

It is better to take refuge in the LORD Than to trust in princes.
(Psalms 118:8-9)