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Synthesis Of Swine Flu
Wayne Madsen asserts that swine flu was engineered from genetic material taken from a dead Inuit woman who died in the 1918 pandemic, also known as the Spanish flu. He claims that it was determined that this particular flu was gene-spliced from two forms of avian flu, two form of swine flu and one form of human flu. This claim is pseudoscience as it presents itself as scientific, however, it does not adhere to the scientific method. It seems to make sense that a new strain of flu would be created by gene-splicing of three different flu strains, however it does not follow that scientists would create such an infection to infect individuals. Swine flu was created by the recombination of another form of the swine influenza, and influenza A and

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