It is possible, but I don’t think likely. While on a large scale, convergent evolution does not occur (if you put a dog and human in the same room for thousands of years you don’t get a man-dog), flu viruses have been known to use a single human as a jumping board for convergent strains. Perhaps this is because of the microscopic level of these viruses.

yesterday was a great show at Alex Jones radio about curent epidemics. of course its all NWO!! they want to get rid of majority of population, and those who survive will be living in prison closed totally controlled cities.

swine flu is just yet another virus mutating to survive. All viruses do. That is why we have flu epidemics every year. Between 250,00 and 500,00 people die every year from the regular flu. Viruses mutate to survive. And the general population does not help with our over use of antiviral and antibiotic medications. For example, the MRSA (methicillin resistant staph aureaus) surge within the past year. Why did this happen? because the bacteria mutated to become resistant to most antibiotics. And it’s the same thing with influenza (any type). Im not much of a conspiracy theorist and have to laugh when I hear people say President Obama took it to Mexico to kill off the terrorists or for “population control”. For Heavens sake. Flu epidemics happen. Pandemics happen, it’s the course of nature. And as I said before as long as we continue to bomb our bodies with antiviral and antibiotic meds these bacterias and viruses will continue to mutate and become resistant to them, thus forming these “superbugs”. Am I scared? Not really. Concerned? ok maybe. the flu sucks, no matter what type it is.

i believe it is a trial run. The time is near

I was totally thinking the same thing and whenever I say it people are ll like oh your just full of conspiracies and I am glad to hear someone else is thinking it and not just me!

I am not a bio-engineer, but I suspect that it is quite possible that the virus could have been engineered, tho finding direct evidence of that is highly unlikely. It is of great fascination to me that it contains such a diverse set of “fingerprints”, from widely dispersed locations. It is an unlikely but not impossible combination. Some very good earlier responses to this post describe the mechanism for mutation quite nicely.

I would *also* make an interesting counter-argument to those who think the intent of releasing a virus like this could be malign… It could also explain why it is overall far less lethal than one might assume would be true for a weaponized disease.

This virus contains segments of a flu lineage (Avian) which has in someplaces had a 60% mortality rate. What if someone might have engineered and released this as a *challenge* virus, in an effort to build immunity in populations against a threat that is over 100 times more lethal?

Fact: There is only a 1/10 of 1 percent chance that this “cocktail” of flu virus parts (FROM 4 DIFFERENT CONTINENTS!!!!!!!!) could have occurred naturally. Numerous biologists have said just that, so I guess the answer
is YES! Population reduction is a major goal for many who run governments. It’s only too convenient that Congress passed a law providing for “emergency centers” (FEMA camps that have already been built by KBR and have been staffed with guards for well over a year) just in time for this “emergency”. Wake up! This is no accident!

Yes its possible….what a great way to reduce population and take away from all the attention on the terrible economy

it’s absolutely not. this is man-made. aids is going to be a thing of the past once the cdc decides what new concoction to unleash on the planet. what’s bad is this is probably only a test to see the rapid spreading and how the world responds to this emergency. completely engineered and deliberately released. we are under attack

This article outlines the types of swine flu, you might want to take a look at it.