One Families Tragedy…
Julissa Brisman 26,
Craigslist Killer’s Victim
Family speaks out on the news of
SWINE FLU MAY MERGE WITH OTHER
the arrest of the Craigslist Killer.
FLU VIRUSES SAYS CDC
"Our family has been devastated by the loss
Swine flu’s potential to reconfigure
its genetic material and become more
of our beautiful daughter, Julissa. We are a
deadly is a “major concern,” said Anne
close family, and Julissa called us every
Schuchat, a scientist with the U.S.
day. We won't be getting those calls any-
Centers for Disease Control and Pre-
vention. The prospect of what is
more. She was studying to be a counselor
called reassortment is keeping Schu-
and helped many people in our community.
chat and health officials worldwide on
Over the past few days, people have told us
the alert even as the newest outbreak
has proved itself to be relatively
the many ways in which Julissa helped them.
mild outside Mexico, where 19 of the
Her friends say Julissa was like a bright
20 confirmed deaths were reported.
light, full of energy and optimism, always
Human cases of the disease have been
confirmed in 30 U.S. states and 19
ready to help other people. These words
countries, according to the CDC and
mean so much to us.
the World Health Organization, a
global agency that may declare a pan-
demic.
"The feeling of losing my daughter in this
way and the pain she must have felt will
Canadian health officials yesterday
haunt me for the rest of my life. She won't
reported the world’s first case of the
live to see her dreams. We will hold Julissa
swine flu jumping to pigs from a hu-
man, probably after a farm worker in
in our hearts every day.
the province of Alberta became ill
during a trip to Mexico. Additional
gene reassortment has the potential to
"I feel very much relieved that the man who
change the makeup of the disease,
did this is in custody and will not be able to
Schuchat said today in a conference
do this horrible thing to another family.
call.
“The prospect of reassortment is al-
"We wish to give our sincere thanks to all
ways there with influenza,” Schuchat
the people who have expressed their sympa-
said in the conference call today. The
thy and prayed for Julissa and for us."
agency is especially concerned that
the new flu, already a risk of causing
sickness and death worldwide, may mu-
Philip Markoff, a 23-year-old Boston Uni-
tate in human or pig populations, she
versity medical student is charged with
said.Pigs are an ideal breeding ground
for new forms of the flu, including
killing Brisman April 14 at the Marriott
the new H1N1 virus, Nancy Cox, chief
Copley Place.
of the flu division at the CDC’s Cen-
ter for Immunization and Respiratory
Disease, said at the briefing. The
She was a masseuse he met through
running hypothesis among scientists
Craigslist.
has been that the new flu -- a combi-
nation of four strains from swine,
birds and humans -- started inside a
pig, she said. CONT: PAGE 26
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