Some are calling it the "Aflockalypse".  Others are calling it the end of the world as we know it.  All over the globe, thousands of dead birds are dropping out of the sky and millions of dead fish are washing ashore.  So just what in the world is going on?

Well, the truth is that nobody knows for sure why large numbers of fish and large numbers of birds are dying all over the planet.  There are some that believe that this is happening because we are getting closer to the end of the Mayan calendar in 2012.  There are others that believe that HAARP or other secret government programs were involved.  Still others are convinced that all of this is happening because the earth is experiencing a pole shift.  Yet other explanations involve UFOs, the BP oil spill or even the second coming of Jesus Christ.

Of course most scientists are attempting to come up with more "rational sounding" explanations for this phenomenon.  Some are blaming extremely cold weather for all of these deaths.  Others claim that loud noises or other trauma could have caused these events.  There are other scientists that have even suggested that birds are falling dead out of the sky due to "indigestion".

So do any of these explanations really hold up to scrutiny?  The truth is that none of them seems satisfactory at this point.

Some in the mainstream media are trying to dismiss the whole story by claiming that mass bird deaths and mass fish deaths "occur regularly", so there is really nothing to be concerned about.

Really?

Is anyone actually going to buy that?

Just consider what we have seen over the past couple of weeks....

*According to officials in Maryland, two million fish have washed up dead on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay.

*More than 3,000 red-wing blackbirds fell out of the sky dead in the Arkansas town of Beebe on New Year's Eve.

*Approximately 40,000 dead crabs recently washed ashore near Kent, England.

*Large numbers of dead birds were also found in Kentucky right around Christmas.

*Hundreds of snapper fish have been discovered dead along the shores of New Zealand.

*Approximately 500 dead blackbirds and starlings were recently found in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana.

*Approximately 100,000 fish washed up dead on the shores of the Arkansas River recently.

*More than 150 tons of fish known as "red tilapias" have washed up dead along the shores of Vietnam.

*Dozens of dead birds have been now been found near the town of Sullivan, Missouri.

*Thousands of gizzard shad have washed up along the waterfront in Chicago, Illinois in recent days.

*More than 100 dead birds have just been found near Geyserville, California.

*Approximately 200 American coots were recently discovered dead on a highway in Big Cypress Creek, Texas.

*Thousands of turtle doves recently fell out of the sky dead onto roofs and cars in a little Italian town called Faenza.

*Dozens of dead birds were recently discovered in the town of Constanta, a small village located 160 miles east of Bucharest, Romania.

*Somewhere around 100 tons of dead fish, primarily sardines, were found on the beaches of Paranagua, Brazil a few days ago.

Are we actually supposed to believe that all of this is perfectly "normal"?

No, something is going on here.

But nobody seems to have an adequate explanation.

One thing is for certain - 2011 sure is off to a very weird start.

So do you think that you know why all of these fish and birds are dying?  If so, please feel free to leave a comment with your opinion below....

Is there a reason why the world is being hit with so many plagues lately?  Could someone be trying to tell us something?  In case you haven't noticed, some of the recent plagues around the globe have been rather "Biblical" in nature.  No, it isn't the end of the world as we know it just yet, but there has been a rash of really bizarre plagues all over the world in recent days.  There have been reports of massive outbreaks of frogs, locusts and rats.  Famine and drought are threatening tens of millions of people.  Unprecedented flooding has been devastating communities all over the globe, and the startling increase in earthquakes and volcanic activity have many people wondering exactly what in the world is going on.  Are these things happening because we are getting closer to 2012?  Could God be behind all of these plagues?  Is there some other explanation?  Well, what can't be denied is that things are starting to get really, really weird out there lately.

Of course most people are focused on the massive disaster in the Gulf of Mexico right now.  The fact that all the oil in the Gulf is turning the waters there red is drawing a lot of attention.  But that is not the only really strange plague that is happening in the world right now.... 

Frogs

In Turkey, the sudden influx of hundreds of thousands of frogs that forced authorities in neighboring Greece to close down a major highway is being seen by locals as a possible sign that a devastating earthquake may strike soon.

Locusts

Australian farmers are bracing themselves for what is being called the most devastating locust plague in almost 40 years.

Scientists in the United States are warning that the worst grasshopper outbreak in decades may sweep across the western states this summer.

Rats And Mice

A gigantic plague of rats is gobbling up vast portions of grasslands in north China.

Farmers are warning that much more needs to be done to cope with a terrible mouse plague in some agricultural areas of south Australia.

Famine

In Niger alone, more than half the population is in desperate need of food, and both Niger and neighboring Chad have officially declared states of emergency.

According to the aid organization Save The Children, one out of every eight children under the age of five in the African country of Niger is likely to die in the next month unless they get immediate assistance.

Drought

Drought warnings have been issued across the U.K. as the country suffers its driest start to the year in 46 years.

The horrifc drought in West Africa is making life incredibly difficult for tens of millions of people.

The ongoing drought in the state of Texas continues to get even worse.

Floods

Unusually heavy flooding in China has killed at least 155 people and has forced more than 1 million Chinese to flee their homes as some areas reached their highest water levels in more than a decade.

Unprecedented flooding has forced the evacuation of more than 600,000 people in the Asian nation of Sri Lanka.

Tens of thousands of people were displaced after torrential rains caused heavy flooding in the southern Philippines.

20 people recently died during a horrible flash flood at a popular rural campground in Arkansas.

A while back, massive storms dumped nearly 20 inches of rain on many areas of the southeast United States, killing at least 27 people and putting many areas of Nashville, Tennessee totally under water.  In fact, it is being reported that the damage to the city of Nashville alone was approximately a billion dollars.

Volcanoes

A volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula has shown signs of intensified activity and is throwing clouds of smoke into the air to a height of at least 1,000 meters.

The Philippine government insists that it is prepared for a possible eruption of the Taal volcano as it begins to show signs of life.

Scientists are warning that another much larger volcano in Iceland is showing indications that it may be about to erupt.

Earthquakes

We all know about the horrific earthquakes that struck Haiti and Chile earlier this year, but those were hardly isolated incidents.  In fact, it was recently reported that earthquakes are up 151 percent in 2010.

A 7.5-magnitude earthquake recently struck under the Indian Ocean near India's Nicobar and Andaman Islands.

Thousands of unsettling "ice quakes" have been detected on Washington's Mount Rainier.

But perhaps no region has been more active than southern California lately.  More than 100 earthquakes recently rattled the California-Mexico border region in just a few hours.

So what is causing all this?

Are all of these plagues and disasters related?

Is there a reason why all of these things are happening?

Please feel free to leave a comment with your opinion....

What in the world is going on out there?  Is somebody trying to tell us something?  In 2010, there have been more plagues of "Biblical proportions" than during any other year in recent memory.  It is not quite the end of the world as we know it yet, but things are getting quite creepy out there.  So is there a pattern to all of this, or do we just happen to be in a very bad year? 

Whatever the explanation is, the truth is that 2010 is one of the most unusual years in ages.

The following are just some of the recent plagues and disasters that have been reported around the globe....

*It is being reported that earthquakes are up 151 percent in 2010.

*Costa Rica's Arenal volcano erupted on Monday, spewing geysers of lava, ash and toxic gases from its crater and forcing the evacuation of the national park where it is located.

*Scientists are warning that another much larger volcano in Iceland is showing signs that it may be about to erupt.

*A plague of rats has gobbled up vast swathes of grasslands in north China.

*Unprecedented flooding has displaced more than 600,000 people in the Asian nation of Sri Lanka.

*Scientists have identified four new strains of the Ug99 wheat-killing fungus that could wipe out the global wheat supply.

*A tsunami warning was canceled Friday for Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands and New Caledonia in the Pacific Ocean after the threat from a 7.2-magnitude earthquake had passed.

*Gigantic storms recently dumped nearly 20 inches of rain on many areas of the southeast United States, killing at least 27 people and putting many areas of Nashville, Tennessee completely under water.  In fact, it is being reported that the damage to the city of Nashville alone is close to a billion dollars. 

*Motorists on a highway in northern Greece were recently brought to a standstill by "millions" of frogs that were attempting to cross a major road.

*The massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is now officially the worst oil spill in U.S. history and is turning vast areas of the Gulf of Mexico red.

Of course we all know about the horrific killer earthquakes in Haiti and in Chile earlier this year.

So just what in the world is going on?

Is there an explanation for why all of these things are happening?

Or is it just a coincidence that so many bad things are taking place?

Feel free to leave a comment with your opinion....

An Official World Health Organization press release contains an ominous warning about the potential for a deadly "reassortment" in which the H1N1 swine flu virus combines with the H5N1 bird flu virus to produce a completely new strain. According to the press release, a reassortment of that nature could potentially produce a flu virus that is as devastating to human life as the H5N1 bird flu and that is as highly contagious as the H1N1 swine flu. Considering the fact that the H5N1 bird flu virus has killed over half of the humans that have caught it, such a development could literally bring about the end of the world as we know it. In fact, one of the top flu experts in the world says that if such a reassortment happens, he will immediately retire and lock himself in a containment lab.

Who is that expert?

His name is Yi Guan, one of the top virologists at Hong Kong University.  Back in 2003 he helped isolate the SARS virus.  In a stunning interview with Science Insider, Yi Guan described exactly what he would do if such a recombination takes place.... 

Q: Is it surprising how quickly H1N1 adapted?

Y.G.: All viruses, after interspecies transmission, will evolve fast. But why this H1N1 could become successful at efficient human-to-human transmission is still unknown. We have a knowledge gap about how influenza A viruses build up their pandemicity in humans. As swine H1N1 has being circulating in pigs since 1918, it has accumulated [many] differences from human H1N1 virus. So, for human beings, it looks like a novel subtype, as most human individuals lack immunity to this swine-like H1N1. This is one of the most important conditions for pandemic emergence. Whether the novel virus will develop into a more virulent strain—just like the Spanish flu did in the fall of 1918 to kill more people—we still don't have any idea.

Q: It depends on further mutations?

Y.G.: It depends on mutations and whether the virus further reassorts with other viruses—like H5N1. That could be a super nightmare for the whole world.

Q: You’re talking about the Armageddon virus?

Y.G.: The chance is very, very low that these two viruses will mix together, but we cannot rule out the possibility. Now, H5N1 is in more than 60 countries. It’s a panzootic, present everywhere except North America.

Q: If the nightmare comes true?

Y.G.: If that happens, I will retire immediately and lock myself in the P3 lab. H5N1 kills half the people it infects. Even if you inject yourself with a vaccine, it may be too late. Maybe in just a couple hours it takes your life.

Not only that, but Zhong Nanshan, the director of the Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Diseases in China's southern Guangdong province stated during an interview with Reuters television that China is a likely location for such a reassortment to take place....

"China, as you know, is different from other countries. Inside China, H5N1 has been existing for some time, so if there is really a reassortment between H1N1 and H5N1, it will be a disaster."

So just what is a reassortment?  Well, it is what occurs when the genes from two or more different types of flu mix in a host animal and form a completely new strain of the flu that is unfamiliar to humans.

Up until now the H5N1 bird flu has proven to be incredibly deadly but it has been very difficult for humans to catch.  However, the concern is that a reassortment could produce a flu virus that is as deadly to humans as H5N1 but that is as easy to spread as H1N1.

If that happens, tens of millions could die.

The only safe thing to do would be to lock yourself in your home.

So why has the World Health Organization published a press release about this?

Why now?

What in the world is happening in Ukraine?  A mystery plague that is directly attacking the respiratory systems of its victims, filling the lungs with blood before ultimately disintegrating them is causing panic not only in Ukraine but across central Europe.  Some health experts in the region believe that parainfluenza is the cause of this outbreak.  Others believe that a virus similar to the 1918 Spanish flu is on the loose.  Still others fear that the H1N1 swine flu has mutated and become more virulent.  Whatever is causing the mystery plague in Ukraine, the reality is that unprecedented numbers of people are getting sick and being hospitalized.

These are the latest official numbers out of Ukraine: 1,347,538 have reported catching the illness, 73,373 have been hospitalized and 282 are dead.  However, there are unconfirmed reports that the number of dead is significantly higher than that.  Meanwhile, the World Health Organization is being extremely evasive about the situation in Ukraine.  Many observers are baffled as to why the WHO is continuing to refuse to release the sequences from the samples taken from patients in Ukraine well over a week ago.

At the same time, there has been a substantial spike in flu cases in other nearby European nations such as Russia, Belarus, Serbia and Bulgaria. Also, a very serious increase in flu cases is being reported in Norway, India and Canada.  The most frightening thing is that in many of those nations there are reports that the flu is disintegrating the lungs of patients just like it is doing in Ukraine.

So just what in the world is happening in Ukraine?

Well, some Ukrainian health officials are convinced that parainfluenza is involved.

Ukrainian Professor Viktor Bachinsky recently expressed his opinion on this matter this way.....

"The virus, which causes death, is very aggressive, it does not strike the trachea, but immediately gets into the lungs and causes heavy swelling and solid hemorrhage. Mixed types of parainfluenza and influenza A/N1N1 lead to this state. This is a very toxic strain, which has not yet answered to the treatment of the Ministry of Health."

Wikipedia's description of parainfluenza certainly does sound quite a bit like what is going on in Ukraine..... 

The incubation period of all four serotypes is 1 to 7 days. In immunosuppressed people, such as transplant patients, parainfluenza virus infections can cause severe pneumonia, which is often fatal.

So is a combination of parainfluenza and H1N1 swine flu causing this outbreak in Ukraine?  Or could it be something even worse?

Could 1918 Spanish flu be involved?

Recombinomics recently posted a translation of an official announcement by the Ukraine Ministry of Health that graphically described exactly what is happening to the victims of this flu in Ukraine.  Pay particular attention to how their lungs are being absolutely destroyed by this flu virus.....

The symptoms are observed at different stages of disease - a fever with a temperature over 38 C, cough, respiratory disorders. When cough was characterized by negligible allocation phlegm or dry unproductive cough with blotches of blood. All the patients come to hospital on average by 3-7 days of onset, were in serious condition. Period of time from onset to death averaged from 4 to 7 days. In all patients during a hospital for signs of respiratory insufficiency of various degrees, which quickly rose and manifested accelerated respiration rate, shortness of breath and effectiveness of independent breathing. X-ray studies were performed on 1-2 day hospitalization. Most patients experienced a double-headed particles of lower lung lesion, followed by a trend towards total destruction.

This sounds chillingly similar to how people died from the 1918 Spanish flu.  That flu pandemic claimed the lives of between 50 and 100 million people across the globe.  When you read the following description of the 1918 Spanish flu from Wikipedia, ask yourself if it does not sound incredibly similar to what they are experiencing over in Ukraine right now.....

"One of the most striking of the complications was hemorrhage from mucous membranes, especially from the nose, stomach, and intestine. Bleeding from the ears and petechial hemorrhages in the skin also occurred."

In addition, check out how Wikipedia describes the horrific deaths that were caused by the 1918 Spanish flu.....

The majority of deaths were from bacterial pneumonia, a secondary infection caused by influenza, but the virus also killed people directly, causing massive hemorrhages and edema in the lung.

Meanwhile, the WHO continues to insist that the mystery plague in Ukraine is simply the regular H1N1 swine flu that is found everywhere else in the world and that there is not much to worry about.  But if there is nothing to worry about, then why will they not release the sequences from the samples taken from patients in Ukraine?

But now there are fears that this is not just Ukraine's problem any longer.  Disturbing new reports about the flu are coming in from all over the globe.....

-35 patients with "swine flu-like symptoms" have died in the last 45 days at just one hospital in India, and not a single one of them tested positive for the H1N1 swine flu.

-The "flu" is spreading at an incredible pace in northern and central Europe.  It is being reported that almost 17 percent of the entire population of Norway has now contracted the flu.

-A sudden spike in H1N1 deaths over the past week in Canada is raising concerns that something has changed.  Most notably, there has just been a massive surge of swine flu deaths in Ontario, Canada.  In fact, over the past few days 24 residents of Ontario died from the "flu" in just a 72 hour period.

-Russian Chief Public Health Official Gennady Onishchenko recently announced to the public that most areas of Russia are on the verge of a major flu epidemic.

-It is also being reported that there are nearly a quarter of a million people seriously ill with the flu in Belarus, and there are rumors that patients there are dying the same kind of brutal deaths that we are seeing in Ukraine.

-Serbia's health ministry has now officially proclaimed an H1N1 swine flu epidemic in that country, as flu panic causes a surge of garlic sales at Belgrade's produce markets.

-Also, a national swine flu pandemic has been declared by the Health Ministry in Bulgaria. Symptoms of the "flu" there include temperatures of over 40 degrees Celsius, severe pain in the bones and muscles, coughing, and the quick development of pneumonia.

While world health authorities continue to be evasive on the cause of the mystery Ukraine plague, one major U.K. news source is calling the Ukraine flu a "plague worse than swine flu".

That same U.K. news source quotes a spokesman for the World Health Organisation as saying this: "We do not have a time scale for the results of the tests in London, although some preliminary results have been obtained. I cannot tell you what they are".

He cannot tell us what the results are?

People are dropping dead and he "cannot" tell us what the results are.

Something does not smell right, that is for sure.

Meanwhile, one doctor in Western Ukraine was quoted as saying the following about the mystery plague: "We have carried out post mortems on two victims and found their lungs are as black as charcoal.  They look like they have been burned. It’s terrifying."

Lungs as black as charcoal?

Lungs that look like they have been burned?

Only a really serious virus can do that.

Perhaps the WHO does not want to "panic the public", but the truth is that we deserve some answers.

Something is viciously attacking the lungs of people in Ukraine and turning them them "as black as charcoal".  When a doctor is willing to say that the situation there is "terrifying", we all need to sit up and take notice.

Up to this point, the WHO has been unbelievably negligent for not disclosing what they have discovered about the mystery plague in Ukraine, and the western media has been incredibly negligent for mostly ignoring this story.  Let us just hope that this is not the beginning of a real worldwide pandemic.