This little piggy went to Mexico, this little piggy stayed home: Did one of them give us A(H1N1)?
Smithfield farms fled US environmental laws to open a gigantic pig farm in Mexico, and all we got was this lousy swine flu.
How "The NAFTA Flu" Exploded
Wednesday 29 April 2009
by: Al Giordano | Original from Narco News via Truthout
US and Mexico authorities claim that neither knew about the "swine flu" outbreak until April 24. But after hundreds of residents of a town in Veracruz, Mexico, came down with its symptoms, the story had already hit the Mexican national press by April 5. The daily La Jornada reported:
"Clouds of flies emanate from the rusty lagoons where the Carroll Ranches business tosses the fecal wastes of its pig farms, and the open-air contamination is already generating an epidemic of respiratory infections in the town of La Gloria, in the Perote Valley, according to Town Administrator Bertha Crisóstomo López."
The town has 3,000 inhabitants, hundreds of whom reported severe flu symptoms in March.
CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta, reporting from Mexico, has identified a La Gloria child who contracted the first case of identified "swine flu" in February as "patient zero," five-year-old Edgar Hernández, now a survivor of the disease.
By April 15 -- nine days before Mexican federal authorities of the regime of President Felipe Calderon acknowledged any problem at all -- the local daily newspaper, Marcha, reported that a company called Carroll Ranches was "the cause of the epidemic."
(More here. For World Health Organization updates on A(H1N1), go here.)
How "The NAFTA Flu" Exploded
Wednesday 29 April 2009
by: Al Giordano | Original from Narco News via Truthout
US and Mexico authorities claim that neither knew about the "swine flu" outbreak until April 24. But after hundreds of residents of a town in Veracruz, Mexico, came down with its symptoms, the story had already hit the Mexican national press by April 5. The daily La Jornada reported:
"Clouds of flies emanate from the rusty lagoons where the Carroll Ranches business tosses the fecal wastes of its pig farms, and the open-air contamination is already generating an epidemic of respiratory infections in the town of La Gloria, in the Perote Valley, according to Town Administrator Bertha Crisóstomo López."
The town has 3,000 inhabitants, hundreds of whom reported severe flu symptoms in March.
CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta, reporting from Mexico, has identified a La Gloria child who contracted the first case of identified "swine flu" in February as "patient zero," five-year-old Edgar Hernández, now a survivor of the disease.
By April 15 -- nine days before Mexican federal authorities of the regime of President Felipe Calderon acknowledged any problem at all -- the local daily newspaper, Marcha, reported that a company called Carroll Ranches was "the cause of the epidemic."
(More here. For World Health Organization updates on A(H1N1), go here.)
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