In 2005, Lexiteria picked “pandemic” as the word of the year because of the threat of a pandemic of the H5N1 Avian flu that year. Spanish health authorities have confirmed 35 H1N1 cases in the Aragon region, 18 of whom are in intensive care. Nine people have been reported dead from an outbreak in several Canadian cities,and Mexico reports outbreaks resulting in at least one death. The World Health Organization (WHO) has raised the alert to phase six, its highest level, and advised governments to activate pandemic contingency plans.ĮPILOGUE – The following part is not a hoax…Īs of early January 2014, Texas health officials have confirmed at least thirty-three H1N1 deaths and wide-spread outbreak during the 2013/2014 flu season,while twenty-one more deaths have been reported across the US. Similar to a scare originally found in Cambodia back in 2005, victims of a new strain of the swine flu virus H1N1 have been reported in London.Ī hoax within a hoax! The article continues, duplicating the next paragraph from the 2005 article verbatim, mentioning the virus restarting the heart of its victims, and then launches into some entirely new material: This article continued by referencing the previous hoax (as if it were real), by starting with the following paragraph: There has been a small outbreak of zombism in London due to mutation of the H1N1 virus into new strain: H1Z1. This is the first instance of the name being used: They also came up with a catchy variation to the real virus name, and called it H1Z1. That was accomplished by the next hoaxsters, which appear to be the website .uk (no longer live).ī.uk essentially used the same computer source code as our first hoaxsters, duplicating the BBC News site again, with live links etc, but with a different headline, hitting closer to home. The perpetrators weren’t quite clever enough (or were perhaps more sensitive) to connect it to the flu-dejour (the H5N1 Avian flu). The hysteria of millions of possible deaths from an existing real pandemic didn’t help. Apparently alot of people didn’t notice, and there was much speculation bouncing around the net, despite its over-the-top subject. Anyone who looked at the address bar though, would have noticed that they weren’t on the real site. The site looked like the real thing, right down to live links to the actual BBC site. I have been unable to locate who pulled off this hoax, but they did a good job. This was, of course, an April Fools joke. Note there was no connection to the existing H5N1 virus. Cambodian officials have yet to comment.Ī United Nations team will be dispatched to Cambodia to confirm the safety of biological research in Cambodia. US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice opposed the plan saying that the Cambodian government holds a great biological weapon and should destroy it immediately. We intend to use this to increase the quality of life for all.” General Ary Serey had this to say, “We have obtained samples of this new virus and plan to learn how it starts the heart and other major organs of the deceased. The culprit was discovered to be mosquitoes native to that region carrying a new strain of Malaria which thus far has a 100 percent mortality rating killing victims in fewer than 2 days.Īfter death, this virus is able to restart the heart of its victim for up to two hours after the initial demise of the person where the individual behaves in extremely violent ways from what is believe to be a combination of brain damage and a chemical released into blood during resurrection.Ĭambodian officials say that the outbreak has been contained and the public has no need to worry. On Monday April 1, 2005, BBC News reported that Cambodian Troops had quarantined the small town near the border of Laos called Quan’sul due to an “small outbreak of zombism.” On September 29, 2005, David Nabarro, the newly appointed Senior United Nations System Coordinator for Avian and Human Influenza, warned the world that an outbreak of Avian influenza could kill 5 to 150 million people. H5N1 created a huge stir in 2005, with the extermination of millions of birds in Asia, and the beginning of cases in humans. Their names generally take the format H#N#. There are many variations of the Flu virus, as it mutates.
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