(the Swine Flu is the old Americas name for the Spanish Flu. Swine Flu is an Americas Bird Flu that goes back centuries before Columbus. The dangerous Swine Flu (Spanish Flu) is avian flu AH1N1 (hp-high pathogenic) which the World has not seen since 1918-1919. Since then the world has only seen avian flu AH1N1 (lp-low pathogenic) AH1N1 is a bird flu. I have a lot of pages on bird flu AH1N1. Presently on Google search I am at the top of page one on the search engine placed there gratis by Google because of relevancy and competency under exact type in category FLU  SOCIAL WORK and have been in that position three years. This page is for Speculator N.Y. and the suspected outbreak of Swine Flu of the common low pathogenic strain as well as my many other pages on bird flu (see main page and many subpages to the left). Which to reiterate it all has been low pathogenic strain since 1918-1919. Lower cigarette pack use to two or three maximum per day.................In this photograph I took at Tiwanaku ancient ruins the blond haired woman whose name I do not know may be looking skyward at a hawk or eagle. To the Indians tobacco was sacred and a medicine. They did not smoke frequently and thus may even have benefitted by the tobacco they smoked. But tobacco like any burning plant produces carcinogins which debilitates tissue with heavy and prolonged use.                                                                                               The hypothesis is if a rabid fox licks a tobacco leaf sun, water and temperature will insert the rabbies antibodies in the tobacco and the tobacco will grow this mammal rabbies antibody. Science is doing this right now to produce clean rabbies antibodies. The process happens ten billion times in nature for every scientific measure taken to grow the rabbies antibody. And the same happens when flying geese defecate on tobacco leaves. The tobacco grows bird flu antibodies from antibodies in the defecation. Bird flu antibodies protect people from bird flu. Thus American Indians chawed tobacco for one reason to prevent the bird flu. And because of this doctors in the U.S. treating the Spanish Flu 1918 knew enough to take a tobacco chaw each morning to help prevent catching it.                                                                                   Science and medicine has produced an Annual Flu vaccine that is 70%-80% successful in preventing cases of Annual Flu. The Annual Flu caught is most often in the U.S. the avian bird flu Hong Kong Flu A H3N2 (lp) low pathogenic and avian bird flu Spanish Flu A H1N1 (lp) low pathogenic, not the high pathogenic (hp) Spanish Flu A H1N1 that struck the U.S. in September 1918 resulting in the death of over 100 million people the world (some accounts say 50 million). At present (hp) high pathogenic A H5N1 killer type Spanish Flu can not be found in the world.                                                                             Annual U.S. Flu vaccine is produced by mixing Spanish Flu, Hong Kong Flu and a new flu A H2N1 a cross of Spanish Flu and Hong Kong Flu, all three flu in attenuated state (not live). The flu virus is grown in eggs. It takes two eggs to produce one individual dose of Annual Flu vaccine.                                                                              The New England Journal of Medicine, Oct 21, 1982 presents a study of an Israel Unit of 336 healthy young soldiers where 70% of the "smokers" in the unit were infected by (lp) Spanish Flu A H1N1 but only 45% of the "non smokers" in the unit caught the Spanish Flu. Many were seriously debilitated by it but all recovered. This is the strain of (lp) low pathogenic Spanish Flu (in atenuated non live state) that U.S. Annual Flu vaccine is partly made out of.                                                                                        One can consider the tobacco use. I have to find out if this Israel military unit had their flu shots. It does not prima faci seem they did. As you read to the left I have many pages on Avian Bird Flu and a page on global warming and how it may have been related to the high pathogenic Spanish Flu of 1918.     James Franklin Lawton   nys  licensed master social worker