Microbiologists Are Investigating Mysterious Ukranian Plague

They better watch their backs, especially if Baxter's involved. It's a hazardous profession.

British scientists testing Ukrainian 'super flu' that has killed 189 people

"British scientists are examining the strain of swine flu behind a deadly Ukrainian outbreak to see if the virus has mutated.
A total of 189 people have died and more than one million have been infected in the country.
Some doctors have likened the symptoms to those seen in many of the victims of the Spanish flu which caused millions of deaths world-wide after the World War One.
An unnamed doctor in western Ukraine told of the alarming effects of the virus.
He said: 'We have carried out post mortems on two victims and found their lungs are as black as charcoal."

I find it more than interesting that 1. execrable MSM reports describes any and all diseases and outbreaks and especially this mysterious pathogen in Ukraine as "swine flu" when it's clearly not and 2. that the administration has declared a national emergency because of "swine flu" when basically it went absolutely nowhere during the southern hemisphere's winter.

added - Ukraine Dead Increase to 299 - Still No Sequences

"The initial WHO report indicated the time between disease onset and hospitalization was 5-7 days, but the more recent report from Ukraine cited a 3-7 day lag, which again suggested that many die in spite of awareness, modest time differentials between symptoms and hospitalization, and appropriate treatment.

Moreover, 90 of the initial cases were describe as having a hemorrhagic component, which again raises concerns about small genetic changes, especially in the receptor binding domain. Answers to questions about such changes have been evasive, and the sequences have not been released by Mill Hill.

The sequence silence remains deafening, and erodes public confidence in agencies controlling these samples and sequences."