months there have been a little confusing and alarming This year here in Mexico.
A very tough year in many respects. Influenza A/H1N1 I have to say did the lion's share ulteriolmente ruining the image of this country. Scared
top news for the few who had, by the time you became aware of many things while the virus has crossed the borders to expand all over the world.
Of how this influence has been created but they do not talk much to limit the blame Mexico for having exported beyond its borders.
Well, according to Dr. Michael director Greg ' Public Health and Animal Agriculture at the Humane Society of the United States ' , this kind of influence began to develop in the first 900 of the last century where there is the worst plague in human history due to an avian virus known as H1N1 was transmitted from birds to humans and managed to kill a number ranging from 50 to 100 million people in 1918. Up to that time ever recorded is not any disease that killed many people in so little time.
the virus was transmitted from men to pigs, where he continued to move and transform, converting the most common cause of respiratory disease of pigs that are found on farms in North America and Eurasia.
in 1998 at a farm in North Carolina was discovered as a hybrid virus composed of the virus with genetic components of pig, bird and human.
The virus, needless to say, it spread to quickly due to the fact that the intensive farming of pigs favored such exchanges. The influence is correlated with the density of individuals.
The transportation of pigs to other farms has allowed a more rapid diffusion. No limit then flocks between Mexican and U.S. ', where in Granjas Carroll , belonging to the multinational Smithfield Foods, were recorded the first cases of influenza A/H1N1.
In the early days of March 60% of the local population had symptoms of this "new" influenza. The multinational
Smithfield (26 million cattle slaughtered in 2006) was already known for its vicissitudes in the States for environmental damage that caused by downloading millions of gallons of fecal matter in the waters of rivers and Americans for falsifying documents and destroying evidence.
In Mexico, the Smithfield, knew very well the evolution of the virus. The inhabitants of the Valley of Perote, Veracruz (where is the Granjas Carroll) were treated the same with the famous Smithfield antiviral already a few weeks without notifying the Mexican government of the incident.
Also a few months before the discovery of the virus, the locals were demonstrating against the Granjas Carroll guilty of downloading carcasses of dead animals and manure in a lagoon causing various foul odors.
The lagoon where excreta are discharged, blood and the remains of pigs (Picture taken from Veracruz Enlace 212) 
health conditions of Granjas Carroll in 2006: Pigs in a state of decomposition (Images from Veracruz Enlace 212)
In the month of April but also in the following, Mexico was subjected to discrimination I faced during my visit to Italy but the fault maybe we should give us this for each of us who eat meat that comes from factory farms. As usual, the weaker (in this case Mexico) will always pay the consequences.
The A / H1N1 is simply the product of great food industry that large quantities of intensively farmed animals to meet their own pockets and the billions of hungry human mouths. A multinational
destruction and looting territories and cultures where prolific as if it were a virus.
the problem even more serious is that governments, such as Mexican, allowing this massacre hosting these industrial groups planning to promote the national economy.
References: 1 , 2 , 3, 4 , 5.
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