Deadly plague could sweep across Europe!
KIEV, Ukraine - November 15, 2009 - A deadly plague could sweep across Europe, doctors fear, after an outbreak of a virus in Ukraine plunged the country and its neighbors into a state of panic.
A cocktail of three flu viruses are reported to have mutated into a single pneumonic plague, which it is believed may be far more dangerous than swine flu. The death toll has reached 189 and more than 1 million people have been infected, most of them in the nine regions of Western Ukraine.
Ukraine President Viktor Yushchenko has called in the World Health Organization and a team of nine specialists is carrying out tests in Kiev and Lviv to identify the virus. Samples have been sent to London for analysis.
President Yushchenko said, “People are dying. The epidemic is killing doctors. This is absolutely inconceivable in the 21st century.”
In a TV interview, the president added, “Unlike similar epidemics in other countries, three causes of serious viral infections came together simultaneously in Ukraine - two seasonal flus and the Californian flu. Virologists conclude that this combination of infections may produce an even more aggressive new virus as a result of mutation.”
