A Super Bug that Really Kills Now - Mortality Rate at 55%! No Cure and Spreading Fast - Morphs - Horizontal Gene Transfer! In Japan, India, Britian and U.S. - Vaccines the Cause?

UPDATE - 1:09pm - Fox News Is Carrying the Story now - Says cases are in 3 States in the U.S. now.
California, Massachusetts and Illinois

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Well, it seems the labs might have finally come up with a Super Bug that has a mortality rate at over 55% from what I can see.  Right now in Japan of the 58 confirmed cases, 32 have died!  

This is serious and at what point will we hear about it here in the U.S.?

Also - something to think about.... This came from those who Traveled TO India and came back to their respective country from getting surgery done in India!  Think about that!  When I was going to travel to India, I was going to have to get a ton of different VACCINATIONS to do so.  Now, my question is "What was in those Vaccinations"?  WHY travelers TO India, what did they have in their body to cause them to get a superbug?  Why didn't it start with those who Lived in India first, from all that I have read, it started with Medical Tourist!  Do you understand what I am saying?  It does not make sense,   Was there one vaccine they all happened to get that was the same and from the same company?

An article in an India paper has the following information

Tokyo, Sep 11: Japan has confirmed another five cases of infection with Acinetobacter, an antibiotic-resistant bacteria, formally know as ‘New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase-1 enzyme (NDM-1)’. 

The cases from Teikyo University Hospital have brought the total number of people infected with the superbug to 58 in the country.

Of the 58 people, 32 have died, including nine whose deaths were likely caused directly by the infection, the Xinhua news agency reports.

NDM-1 is a type of bacteria resistant to carbapenems, one of the antibiotics of last resort for many bacterial infections.

The superbug’s is formally named after New Delhi, as it was reportedly discovered in the Indian capital.

According to reports, it has spread to Britain and the United States through travelers who had surgery in India.

The first death directly attributed to the superbug was reported last month in Belgium. 

I just found another article about it - Just now released.

New Indian superbug 'a global threat' 

A new superbug from India thought to be resistant to nearly every known antibiotic poses a global threat, scientists warned on Monday, urging health authorities to track the bacteria.

"There is an urgent need, first, to put in place an international surveillance system over the coming months and, second, to test all the patients admitted to any given health system" in as many countries as possible, said Patrice Nordmann of France's Bicetre Hospital.

"For the moment, we don't know how fast this phenomenon is spreading... it could take months or years, but what is certain is that is will spread," he told AFP, noting that measures have already been agreed in France and are under discussion in Japan, Singapore and China.

The so-called "superbug," dubbed NDM-1 (New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase 1), and its variants appear to have originated in India and were first detected in Britain in 2007.

For example, scientists have determined that the NDM gene "is very mobile, hopping from one bacteria to another," he said.

"medical tourist" appeared to have brought the bacteria to Britain.

More information:

We have found that the superbug has the potential to get copied and transferred between bacteria, allowing it to spread rapidly. If it spreads to an already hard-to-treat bacterial infection, it can be turn more dangerous," Kumarasamy said.

Scientists have tracked down a drug-resistant superbug that infects patients and causes multiple organ failure to Indian hospitals but doctors here see in it the germ of a move to damage the country's booming medical tourism industry.

The 'superbug' resistant to almost all known antibiotics has been found in UK patients treated in Indian hospitals. Named after the Indian capital, it is a gene carried by bacteria that causes gastric problems, enters the blood stream and may cause multiple organ failure leading to death.

Japan Man Dies of a New Kind of Flu 11/16/09 7:04

Japan Man Dies of a New Kind of Flu

There are deaths occurring all around the Eastern Part of the World, this article is interesting, in that it says the man died of a "new kind of Flu".

Article:

A 45-year-old man of Shijonawate, Osaka Prefecture, who had contracted the new type of influenza, died Wednesday, according to the Osaka prefectural government.

Although the cause of death has not yet been identified, the case brought the toll to 12 deaths in Japan related to the new H1N1 strain of influenza, including suspected cases. It was the first new-flu related death in the prefecture.

It is also the nation's first case in which a person who had never suffered major or chronic diseases had possibly died from causes related to the flu. However, the government said it was unlikely the flu was the cause of death as his condition had improved.

According to the prefectural government, the man was found to have contracted influenza A in simple testing on Monday at a medical institute where he was being treated for a continuous mild fever.

An Interesting Study Done in Japan On Tamiflu - article From April 09 - Causes Abnormal Behavior in Children 11/14/09 11:18am

An Interesting Study Done in Japan On Tamiflu - article From April 09 - Causes Abnormal Behavior in Children

I just found this, a study was done in Japan on Tamiflu - it found abnormal psychological behavior in young influenza patients, between 10 and 17 years old. I thought I would include it here, since this is being used for Swine Flu patients of all ages.

Article:

OSAKA, Japan, April 19 (UPI) -- Researchers from Japan's Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry say Tamiflu apparently increases abnormal psychological behavior in young influenza patients.

The team, led by Osaka City University Professor Yoshio Hirota, said its study revealed influenza patients between the ages of 10 and 17 were more likely to exhibit serious abnormal behavior if they consumed the antiviral medication, The Daily Yomiuri reported Sunday.

Tamiflu was banned by the Japanese ministry in 2007 for use on 10- to 19-year-olds after delirious behavior was observed in some children taking the drug.

The new study focused on nearly 10,000 influenza patients under the age of 18 diagnosed after the 2006 fiscal year.

They stated in their report that those patients ages 10 to 17 who took Tamiflu had a 54 percent greater chance of exhibiting abnormal behavior than those patients who did not take the medication.

"The link with Tamiflu can't be ruled out," the researcher said in the report released Saturday. "New research should be carried out, focusing on serious abnormal behavior."

The report identified examples of abnormal behavior as a child who attempted to leap from a balcony or a child who began hopping after consuming Tamiflu. No margin of error was given for the medical study.

Recombinomics says what is killing those In the Ukraine - Also in Killing in Other Countries 11/9/09 7:24am est

Recombinomics says the hemorrhagic pneumonia killing those In Ukraine - Also in Other Countries

Recombinomics says this hemorrhagic pneumonia (not H1N1 - in other words - lungs bleeding) is linked to other countries - notice they say "patients who developed a cytokine storm" - that is exactly what people have been warning about, of what will occur with the Swine Flu Vaccine! They are again asking for results of exactly what it is killing people, but no results are being forthcoming.

From Article: (again this is a medical article - can be hard to understand with all the genes and medical terms used)

1918 RBD Polymorphsm in Ukraine H1N1?
Recombinomics Commentary 04:22
November 9, 2009

The recent explosion of H1N1 cases in Ukraine (see map) has focused attention on sequences linked to the outbreak, especially those in the lungs of patients who developed a cytokine storm. This hemorrhagic pneumonia has been described previously in other fatal swine flu infections, but that rapid increase in reported deaths in Ukraine has raised concerns that the virus is transmitting more efficiently, or is replicating at higher levels in lung tissue.

These changes are frequently linked to changes in the receptor binding domain (RBD) in the HA protein. Changes in this domain can affect affinity for receptors and also modify tissue tropism. The recent expansion of seasonal H3N2 with M2 S31N was linked to two changes in or near the receptor binding domain, S193F and D225N.

Recent isolates from Sao Paulo, Brazil, collected from necropsy tissue from fatal cases had two changes at position 225. Two of the isolates, A/Sao Paulo/53845/2009 and A/Sao Paulo/53838/2009) had D225N (see list), the same change seen in seasonal H3N2. Interestingly, the swine H1N1 is a triple reassortant with flu genes from swine, humans, and birds. The human gene is PB1 and it was acquired in swine infected with a human H3N2. The initial isolates had three human genes, the H3 and N2 as well as the PB1. Thus, the prior association of the human PB1 in isolates with human H3,may increase the advantage offered by D225N.

However, two other isolates from Sau Paulo, A/Sau Paulo/53225/2009 and A/Sau Paulo/53206/2009, collected from the lungs of fatal cases, had another change at position 225, D225G. This polymorphism is more widespread and recent isolates have been found in Japan, Italy, and China (see list ). Moreover this polymorphism has been found in two isolates from the 1918/1919 pandemic, A/New York/1/1918 and A/London/1/1919. Thus, in 1918 the H1N1 virus usually had a D at position 225, but some of the later isolates had D225G, which parallels the data from the 2009 swine H1N1 isolates.

These RBD changes in recent isolates from Sao Paulo, as well as the presence of D225G in sequences from 1918/1919 raise concerns that the swine H1N1 is adapting to its human host by acquisition of RBD polymorphisms.

The explosion of cases in Ukraine, and delays in the release of sequences from fatal cases in Ukraine is a cause for increasing concern. Recent accelerations of deaths have been widespread across the northern hemisphere, raising concerns that receptor binding domain changes described above, as well as a third polymorphism at position 225, D225E, (see list) are gaining traction as the swine H1N1 adapts to human hosts.

An update on the Mill Hill sequences and deposit of such sequences at a public database such as GISAID, where Mill Hill recently deposited sequences from Europe, would be useful.


I am not a doctor - but it seems to me, someone should question if those dying had recently had the Swine Flu vaccine. But I won't count on that actually happening.