Recent Rash of Outbreaks in the Ukraine Stir Controversy

The Ministry of Health in the Ukraine has reported that 26 more people have died just last night due to the influenza that causes people to suffocate from complications due to acute respiratory illness. The symptoms are not at all unlike the symptoms that accompany the Asian virus. The death toll in the Ukraine has exceeded epidemic levels in all regions but two. As of November 14th, 2009 this brings the figure to, 282 people total buried from this hemorrhagic disease throughout all 24 regions of the Ukraine.

This new strain in the Ukraine is believed to be linked with Baxter Labs, International. Baxter labs admitted recently that earlier this year that they did indeed accidentally send out tainted vaccine from Austria to labs in the Czech Republic, Slovania and Germany. Fortunately, a subcontractor in the Czech Republic decided to test the new shipment on ferrets upon arrival. The scientists inclination turned out to be correct as the ferrets died immediately after receiving the vaccine. "All the ferrets had to be liquidated and the company had to be closed." said the authority's spokesman Joseph Dubin. This deadly combination could have become an incubator for a new disease to spread on a worldwide level. The companies director of global bioscience communications admitted in an e-mail that the H5N1 strain was indeed live.

Meanwhile, the country of Ukraine is at the beginning stages of Martial Law. Schools are closing for the upcoming weeks, the borders are being blocked off around quarantined areas and protesters face criminal prosecution for speaking out against the mass inoculation campaign. Hospitals are waiting to hear back from the sequence studies done on the virus samples presently being performed by Mill labs in London, England. The studies being done are being performed to replicate conditions under which the virus mutates, as well as to check temperatures at which it is most active. Ukranian residents are becoming more anxious as the results of the changes in the DNA sequences of the specimens of H5N1 remain forthcoming, while more people are hospitalized daily.

This is heart-breaking news, as many people die from suffocation, as blood fills their lungs, whether the cause is human error or whether it is from some other unknown source. The world and the Ukraine waits, holding its breath, while the events that surround the epidemic continue to unfold.

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