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From The Independent:

The White House says that Barack Obama is “highly engaged” in monitoring the swine flu outbreak that has spread over the border from Mexico into the US – and well he might. For a while, the President’s doctors feared that he may have come closer than almost anyone in the country to contracting the virus.

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UPDATE: Mexican Swine Flu Spreads To U.S.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/JJ_lawva01/ JJ_lawva01

    Scary…i really hope the media is just exploiting this story, because if they arent then the reality would be almost unimaginable. The flu pandemic of 1918 killed 20 million people worldwide…they say history often repeats itself. And viruses like the plague and ebola etc. never really go away they just lay dormant untill the right moment.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CLAY-D/ CLAY-D

    i am just gonna pray and leave it in GOD’s hands i can’t worry about the media,nothing but bad news and all.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/alpha111906/ alpha111906

    easy way to stop it..stay away from pork, period. Don’t let that tasty pork chop dilute your common sense. Your health is more important than your taste…the pig is a dirty beast…leave it alone.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Legs4Weeks/ Legs4Weeks

    You can not contract the swine flu by eating pork.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/alpha111906/ alpha111906

    They don’t call it swine flu for nothing. When you are wondering why you are sick..dying of heart disease…lung diseases…etc…then don’t ask the doctor why you are constantly sick…diseases don’t come out of thin air…

    here is just a few that pigs contain.

    PARASITIC DISEASES
    a) TRICHINELLA SPIRATIS ( Trichina worms )
    It is the most dangerous parasite to man ( Rheumatism and muscular pain). The infected persons shown no symptoms, recover very slowly some die, some reduced to permanent invalids. No one is immune from this disease and there is no cure.

    b) TAENIA SOLIUM ( Pork tape worm )
    The worm causes malnourishment of the person leading to anemia, diarrhea, extreme depression melancholia and digestive disturbances. Cysticercosis means that larva enter the blood stream then settle down in one or more of the vital organs of the body, for example: brain, liver, lungs or spinal cord. They grow and encapsulate, inducing pressure to the
    system around, resulting in dangerous diseases (diarrhea,digestive disorder, anemia, chronic invalidation).

    c) ROUND WORMS
    Examples: Ascaris, which may lead to digestive disturbances, appendicitis, obstructive jaundice.

    d) HOOK WORMS
    Examples:Ancylostomiasis, which may lead to anemia, oedema, heart failure or retarded growth ( mental and physical), tuberculosis,
    diarrhea and typhoid.

    e) SCHITOSOMA JAPONIC**
    Bleeding, anemia and other syndromes. If ova are settled in the brain or spinal cord, paralysis and death may occur.

    f) PARAGOMINES WESTERMAINI
    Infestation leading to bleeding of the lungs ( endenve haemoptysis)

    g) PACIOLEPSIS BUSKI
    Digestive disturbances leading to persistent diarrhea; generalized oedema.

    h) CLONORCHIS SINENSIS
    chlonorchiasis-obstructive jaundice, liver enlargement.

    i) METASTRONGYLUS APRI
    Causes bronchitis, abscess of the lungs.

    j) GIGANTHORINCHUS GIGAS
    Cause anemia and digestive disorders.

    k) BALATITIDIUM COLI
    Causes acute dysentery and general weakness.

    BACTERIAL DISEASES
    Tuberculosis
    Fusiformis necrofurus: causing foot-rot which is very difficult to heal.
    Salmonella Cholera suis: causing cholera
    Paratyphoid
    Bruceellosis: Acute, sub acute and chronic. It may lead to permanent disabilities.
    Swine Erysipelas: causing Erypelas in man.
    Viral Diseases
    Small pox: is was a source of infection to man.
    Japanese B-encepphalitis: It is the source of infection
    Influenza, foot mouth disease, gas tro-enteritis of the new born babies.
    Protozoal Diseases:
    Toxo plasma goundii- It is a very dangerous diseases.A new born baby of an infected woman may die within few days or weeks after delivery. But if he survives he may develop blindness or deafness.In adult chronic exhaustive fever with enlarged liver and spleen may occur. Pneumonia, or celebro- spinal meninggitis which may lead to death or madness. The patient may become blind and deaf too.

    Fats In Pigs:
    Pork contains more fats than other meats. Therefore, people who are fond of pork are more obese than others. Cholesterol is higher in their blood thus making them more prone to asthereosclerosis cardiovascular accidents and sudden death.

    Other Diseases:
    Flesh of the pork is hard to digest and may lead to chronic digestive disturbances. Pimples, boils, cysts are common in pork eaters. These are some of the parasites and diseases found in pork and/ or the skin of pigs and certainly there are many more. There is still no means of killing these parasites, in the tissues, neither has anyone found a method of expelling them, even produced any specific treatment for the diseases.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/raidernation7878/ raidernation7878

    REPENT, THESE ARE THE END TIMES

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Dat_StudU_Want954/ Dat_StudU_Want954

    WOW, I love pork :(

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/wincie/ wincie

    as 2:22pm has said you don’t get swine flu from eating pork. farms hands usually get it from being in contact with pigs but in this case its coming from a pig virus, bird virus, and the human virus. You may want to do a little research before you comment on something you think you know.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/alpha111906/ alpha111906

    don’t let ignorance of how you get the disease blind you. Pork is nasty…if you wouldn’t eat it…you wouldn’t have this problem in the first place…

    demand for pork comes from you the pork eater..the swine flu comes from pigs…in non pork eating countries..you don’t see a swine flu panic..only from people that are constantly demanding the dirty beast. Blacks are in denial…put down that pork chop…then this disease wouldn’t exist. It didn’t come from the swine flu fairy…your disgusting taste for that nasty filthy beast is the reason why they have a record number of pig farms…increasing the chances of catching it…

    change your diets..your health will improve..stay away from that beast

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/alpha111906/ alpha111906

    “And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase.” Deuteronomy 14:8

    Matthew 5:17
    “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.”

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/alpha111906/ alpha111906

    blacks believe anything a white man tells them….

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Keeshy10/ Keeshy10

    Swine flu doesn’t only come from pigs… Swine flu is a combination of three different flu strains…flu from pigs, flu from birds and flu from humans, that’s why it’s so deadly. If swine flu only came from pigs, then we might as well not eat poultry because of avian flu. Stop saying things before researching about it. I’m not big on eating pork, but still, I’m saying this because it’s a fact.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/influenc3/ influenc3

    even if you don’t catch swine flu from eating it..you shouldn’t eat it. in the bible and the quran it states that swine meat has been forbidden by god but like always ignorance is a bliss.. How are you gonna eat an animal that eats it’s own poop..lol people really need to grow up n respect there body n self

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MzMinx405/ MzMinx405

    my darling president i hope u are well and your family as well…yes the media is exploiting as always…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Haitian_Sausage/ Haitian_Sausage

    well i think the president should start segregate where he goes.. I do understand change mean to engage with everyone. At the same times, he should watch out. Now it’s very peculiar that his guide die. hmm i think the guide life should be investigated… too much of a coincidence here if you ask me

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/VANITY666BONET/ VANITY666BONET

    damn to bad it didnt get to him

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Ramses_NY/ Ramses_NY

    The headline reads, Obama exposed to swin flu…Yet when reading the full story, it says possibly. Are you nimrods at all concerned, with writing facts or anything of depth on this site?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/baudbwoy/ baudbwoy

    @Ramses_NY…thank you.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/gren1shaw2/ gren1shaw2

    Racist want pres obama to catch swine flu.they want anything to happen so they can get him out of the white house.Death would be preferable.His security should take this serious.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jadore311/ jadore311

    THANK THE LORD he isnt infected and to VANITY666BONET wow really !!??? im going to tell u like im telling everyone else if ur one of the nasties who comes out of the bathroom and doesnt wash ur hands or sits down to eat and dont take care if that after touching money and doors PLEASE WASH UR HANDS AND COVER UR NASTY MOUTH AFTER U SNEEZ OR COUGH plz and thx u cause baby i DONT WANT THAT SWINE !!!!! OBAMA ’12

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/gren1shaw2/ gren1shaw2

    The media think they can stand in judgement over the pres, when.they have no answers for the problems in america.their plan is to keep mess stirred up about him, to change how people about him.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/gren1shaw2/ gren1shaw2

    The republican party are making sure to keep him from carrying out his plans, because they know his plans will work perfectly

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/gren1shaw2/ gren1shaw2

    The republican party are making sure to keep him from carrying out his plans, because they know his plans will work perfectly. Obama needs black security to protect him.he is in danger from the USA.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/gren1shaw2/ gren1shaw2

    The republican party are making sure to keep him from carrying out his plans, because they know his plans will work perfectly. Obama needs black security to protect him.he is in danger from the USA.they killed their own presidents”Think”‘

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SWANKness/ SWANKness

    damn, to whomeva wrote this blog, did you not see yesterday when Obama’s administration came out and said he DOES NOT HAVE THE SWINE FLU ! dumb asses.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Ddmoney22/ Ddmoney22

    spreading fear through a popular figurehead………

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DA_GEORGETOWN_MAYOR/ DA_GEORGETOWN_MAYOR

    SO WHAT! EXPOSE THAT NIGGA TO AIDS, THEN GET BACK @ US!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Bklightazup/ Bklightazup

    damnnn leave him alone..if i had the damn flu..i wont get my own segment on tv..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/fatbabyceesay/ fatbabyceesay

    He does not. Damn… read the paper will ya?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/nicolealize/ nicolealize

    The President has a band on angels dispatched around him in a hedge of protection The Lord’s got his back!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DA_GEORGETOWN_MAYOR/ DA_GEORGETOWN_MAYOR

    THE SWINE FLU IS A PLOT TO GET YALL TO H8 HISPANICS! AND TO GET REDI TO ROUND YALL UP IN “FEMA CAMPS” DONT FALL FOR IT!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/TEEDIAMOND85/ TEEDIAMOND85

    i agree with nicole =) angels r watchin him, he made it this far….

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sherlock_w/ sherlock_w
  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Ddmoney22/ Ddmoney22

    The sheep are already programmed to be ignorant

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/stupidfatandugly/ stupidfatandugly

    i thought this was bout police. =]

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/killerace666/ killerace666

    man they just saying anything to try to get obama out of office

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Ashiyah_08/ Ashiyah_08

    I voted Obama, and I am happy with my vote. But whats up with him being in a 747 flying low over Manhattan without warning the Mayor or people of new york and giving them a “9/11 scare”?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Sixfootr34/ Sixfootr34

    anytime u see a virus break out all of a sudden, it’s nothin but population control…they kill off alot of people and then the virus dies down and then u hardly ever hear about it again…it’s chemical warfare!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_diamond_/ _diamond_

    Ok Black Planet, this is ridiculous. Your so called news coverage is an embarrassment! The very article you pulled this story from even goes on to say that Obama was not exposed to the swine flu. There is a movement of black intellectuals fleeing from your site for this kind of stuff right here.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DarkSkinnedGoddess/ DarkSkinnedGoddess

    Hope he’ s okay

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CarmelDelyte4u/ CarmelDelyte4u

    I had me some gooddddddddddd pork chops just last night. Uhmmmm uhmmmm uhmmmm…please educate yourself before typing…typing while stupid should be a dayum crime punishable by flogging. Then the internet would be virtually empty though…and who would entertain us lmao. Newone…please get some dayum business and stop writing these wack ass stories based on a piece of an article with inflammatory headlines…it’s juvenile and irresponsible dayum.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/My_heart_for_U/ My_heart_for_U

    @ 7:05 post…funny thing is…they said presidential plane….Obama plane…then later like a side note said he wasn’t on the plane.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/alpha111906/ alpha111906

    niggas and pork…niggas and pork..don’t say anything bad about niggas and their pork.

    Slave mentality. I can smell the swine from here. Don’t defend the slave master’s food…he gave it to you and you won’t let it go. Now the white man tells you it is ok to consume…and you still eat…and you wonder why you are dying of heart attacks and diseases unknown…have bad skin conditions..blotches…eczema…horrible acne…

    oink oink

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/lyn70501/ lyn70501

    everyone that has posted comments seems somewhat upset..this is the thing; if you dont like stories like this STOP READING everyone knows that hte media will say whatever they want and get paid for it as long as people keep reding and posting comments….if you dont like it find something constructive to do with your time

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Yawehs_Daughter/ Yawehs_Daughter

    The conspiracy theories have started to fly. Read a story where folks think this was a man-made virus, due to theg enetic makeup of the virus as one possible indicator of its origins.

    According to the news article, the virus contains strains of Human influenza; Bird Flu from North America; Swine flu from Europe; and Swine flu from Asia, yet the first outbreaks were reported in Mexico.

    Interesting theory, especially in light of the latest reports that no infected swines have been found in Mexico.

    Things that make you go “HHHMMMMMM”.

    BTW, eating or not eating pork has no affect on your ability to get the virus. Your more likely to get it from interacting with someone who has the virus than from eathing a ham samwhich. (And no, I’m not a pork eater.)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Sunshyne_defined/ Sunshyne_defined

    LOLLLL. Some of you are just such comedy, Swine Flu doesn’t have sh!t to do with pork. SMDH, educate yourself, before you speak. Word to the wise, before you open your mouth, someone may THINK you’re stupid, but when you say stupid sh!t, you confirm it.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Sunshyne_defined/ Sunshyne_defined

    *nothing to do w/eating pork i mean.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/scladiesman/ scladiesman

    yall mf’s make me sick tryyin to sayn any an everything about this man not he got this swine flu omg u ppl are sick but one thing holds true he’s still OUR president lol hate it or not lol

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