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EPIDEMIC OF SWINE INFLUENZA CAN BE PREVENTED BY THE SELFHEMOTERAPY
Epidemic of swine influenza can be prevented by the self-hemotherapy In times of crisis, and in particular that we are living now, all possible resources to mitigate the effects of the crisis must be sought and evaluated. Since 2004, the Brazilians are aware of the therapeutic procedure in the very old and traditional medical and veterinary, known as self-hemotherapy from a video circulated on the Internet through You Tube, containing an interview with Dr. Luiz Moura, resident doctor in Rio de Janeiro. Subsequently the procedure was banned by ANVISA in 2007, which fortunately did not prevent many people who continue using the procedure in the treatment and prevention of many diseases such as acne, arthritis, asthma, amidalite, gout, influenza and even several diseases auto-immune. After the ban, the patients who were using the self-hemotherapy were mobilized in their defense and have signed a petition addressed to the President of the Republic, requesting the release of the practice claiming that it is a therapeutic procedure with no known risk to the patient and extremely effective in the prevention of diseases in general, since it is a nonspecific vaccine, capable of strengthening the immune system against various diseases, including influenza, caused by different types of viruses. As the world lives in a climate of panic because the risk of swine flu appeared in Mexico in abril/2009, becoming a global pandemic like the Spanish flu of 1918, which some estimates reached 50 million deaths, or the Asian flu 1968, our duty to re consider the question of the use of self-hemotherapy in Brazil. The Spanish flu came to Brazil in October 1918 and remained for several weeks, until the end of November, but it was enough to kill at least 35 thousand people, mostly in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. According to scholars and medical specialists worldwide, a new influenza pandemic occurs more or less every 40 years and was last recorded in 1968, influenza in Hong Kong or Asia, where it is estimated that killed some 4 million people in the world. So 1918 + 50 = 1968 + 40 = 2008. Influenza was late, but arrived. Not by chance the World Health Organization (WHO) with the assistance of experts from around the world is pointing since the end of the 90s about the threat of an influenza pandemic in this new century. It is believed that, despite the current resources in the medical field and in the best condition of health of the global population, the ease of transport and the huge mass of people to move to each corner of the world each day will be able to spread the virus to all continents in only 4 days. Taking into account that the application of preventive injection of the patient's own blood, taken from the vein and apply the muscle has the property of strengthening the reticule-endothelial system (immune system) as it stimulates the body to increase the number of macrophages in the blood from 5% to 22% in 8 hours after application, maintaining that level for 5 days, is extremely useful, given the epidemic of swine flu, the application of the vaccine, not only for Brazilians who will travel to Mexico, but also to Mexicans have not yet hit by flu, which already has the mortality rate of 6%, demonstrating that this is really an epidemic of great gravity. If the epidemic spread to other countries, which seems inevitable as the daily traffic of persons from Mexico and the disease continues to have an incubation period of 3 to 7 days, just a passenger contaminated by viruses, into a country to create conditions for transmission of the virus to others and so on. Is provided only as a vaccine specific for this strain of influenza in swine in about 6 months, by then the epidemic will have produced a disaster of major proportions. Moreover we know that the influenza virus, the cause of influenza, because of their constant mutability, requires the production of new medicines. Even the vaccine, an important innovation emerged in the mid 90s, could have reduced efficacy in terms of the characteristic of the disease to submit to each winter with a new look. As this is an emergency, we believe the prudent application of the injection of blood from the patient's own vein (5 ml.), With an interval of 5 days to maintain the body with the index of macrophages in blood around 22% especially if the epidemic really is installed and remain for a long time. Obviously we can not ignore also the food, which must be of good quality, including vegetables, legumes and fruits, especially citrus and those with large amounts of vitamin C, such as cherry, kiwi, cashew, etc.. Clearly, in the case of an epidemic, we must also avoid agglomerations, indoors, cinemas, theaters, etc., using surgical masks for protection, and goggles to protect eyes, can also absorb the virus. And there are no contra-indications for the procedure of self-hemotherapy believe a humanitarian issue, before the current
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Information on Swing Flu
Ok This isn't a question about swing flu, more of a public announcement since everybody seems to have a lot of misconceptions. Ok, I will answer this appropriately, and I can asnwer this with authority, as I am actually an expert in epidemics and pandemics. What people don't realize is the fear of swing/brid flu is not the flu as it is, but rather what it could be. The spanish influenza was a mutated strain of bird flu (so theorized) that became airborn and also became more virulent. The threat is not so much what these flus are now, but the danger that one of these animal vector flu's will mutate like the Spanish influenza did, become A. completely airborn B. incredibly virulent and C. an indiscriminate killer, i.e. kills adults as readily as the young and the old. The problem is they have to start taking precautions every time a possibly virulent strain erupts. If they don't and they wait until it mutates then it will have spread so fast and so far by then that any measures they take will be nil and void. If a superflu occurs again, with transit as it is the deathtoll will be in the millions. These are just precautions that have to be taken to try and control the damage when a new superflu goes epidemic. And I do assure you, its a matter of when not if. As for the symptoms of swing flu, they are the same as the regular flu. I don't understand people asking for the symptoms os swine flu, they are the same as regular flu, and you have to go to the doctor to get tested to see if you have the regular flu or the swine flu. It is a good idea to get tested, because the swine flu is slightly more dangerous than the regularly flu, and you will also wish to seek treatment because the symptoms are just worse and more miserable in general. Pardon the spelling error, i did this on my iphone and predictive text changed it to swing, I didn't notice. For the record in the idiot who that out, its pretty obvious it wasn't a spelling error. As swing is not a spelling error so much as the wrong word. Only a petty person would bring up something like that which was obviously just an oversight.
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What do you think here Obama supports US Latinos ‘We’re all in this together’
The presence of US President Barack Obama caused a stir Friday among members of the Hispanic community who had gathered in Washington to discuss the ongoing flu epidemic and how it is affecting immigrants. Although he barely said “hello” and “thank you” in Spanish, Obama reaped applause, laughs, and even a “Viva Obama!” from an audience of around 100 at a townhall-style gathering at the White House. Top Latinos in the US government were also in attendance. Obama emphasized that his administration is working to prevent the outbreak of a previously unknown strain of influenza A(H1N1) from becoming a source of conflict and prejudice against immigrants. “We are one country, we are one community,” Obama said in his brief address. “Our experience with the H1N1 virus over the last couple of weeks is a sobering reminder of how vital it is that we all recognize, we are all in this together.” There have been isolated reports of xenophobia within the United States - particularly among local politicians - as well as scattered incidents of workplace prejudice. The federal government has consistently tried to avoid accusations aimed at Mexico - considered the epicentre of the epidemic - or immigrants. Unlike other countries, the United States never considered closing its Mexican border or suspending flights to and from its southern neighbour. “I have been working very closely - I spoke to President Calderon last weekend - to ensure that we were providing Mexico with the assistance that it needed,” Obama said. “Because one of the things that we have to understand is public health issues like this - not only is it important for all communities within the United States to be working together, it’s also important to be working internationally together.” Tino Cuellar, Obama’s special advisor for justice and regulatory policy, went even further, telling Hispanics that the White House was saying “no to discrimination.” “It is very important to remember that at this moment, despite the priority that we have to give to public health, it is also important to remember that civil rights do not stop, they move forward,” Cuellar said. “The truth that all the American public has to understand is that this virus respects no borders, respects no ethnic or racial lines, which means that it is not a Mexican-American, Latino, Asian or African-American virus. It is a challenge that we all have to face together.” Cuellar said that people should not fall into “traps” and urged people encountering any instances of illegal discrimination to complaints with public agencies. During the community meeting, officials answered questions from the Latino community, particularly focused on prevention and the timeframe for a vaccine. Obama celebrated this as the first townhall meeting at the White House to be “conducted entirely in Spanish” and vowed that it would be “the first of many” ways to reach out to the American people.http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2009/05/08/obama-supports-us-latinos-were-all-in-this-together/ Remember when Napolitano has also said that strict border monitoring is not yet necessary. So it really should not be a surprise that she said “crossing the border illegally is not a crime.” Napolitano is referred to Section B, Title 1325 of the U.S. Code that states otherwise. As the former governor of a border state with Mexico, she of all people should be painfully aware of the trials and tribulations Arizonans, Californians, New Mexicans and Texans have endured. The Phoenix-metropolitan area is now the ranked as the worst and most likely place to be kidnapped in the United States, and Napolitano isn’t rankled by this horrifying piece of information? Meanwhile, as Napolitano is ineffective as Homeland Security chief, she is now trying her hand as Secretary of Health and Human Services speaking out about the swine flu situation. Perhaps she can insult that away. She should not be holding either of those jobs. anyone who can read for more than 10 seconds by all means skip this question.It only reinforces what the pro lawbreakers say about being lazy Edit anyone who can't read for more than 10 seconds by all means skip this question.It only reinforces what the pro lawbreakers say about everybody being lazy
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Did you know this about the flu and do you care
The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the Great War, known today as World War I (WWI), at somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. It has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history. More people died of influenza in a single year than in four-years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347 to 1351. Known as "Spanish Flu" or "La Grippe" the influenza of 1918-1919 was a global disaster. The Grim Reaper by Louis Raemaekers In the fall of 1918 the Great War in Europe was winding down and peace was on the horizon. The Americans had joined in the fight, bringing the Allies closer to victory against the Germans. Deep within the trenches these men lived through some of the most brutal conditions of life, which it seemed could not be any worse. Then, in pockets across the globe, something erupted that seemed as benign as the common cold. The influenza of that season, however, was far more than a cold. In the two years that this scourge ravaged the earth, a fifth of the world's population was infected. The flu was most deadly for people ages 20 to 40. This pattern of morbidity was unusual for influenza which is usually a killer of the elderly and young children. It infected 28% of all Americans (Tice). An estimated 675,000 Americans died of influenza during the pandemic, ten times as many as in the world war. Of the U.S. soldiers who died in Europe, half of them fell to the influenza virus and not to the enemy (Deseret News). An estimated 43,000 servicemen mobilized for WWI died of influenza (Crosby). 1918 would go down as unforgettable year of suffering and death and yet of peace. As noted in the Journal of the American Medical Association final edition of 1918: "The 1918 has gone: a year momentous as the termination of the most cruel war in the annals of the human race; a year which marked, the end at least for a time, of man's destruction of man; unfortunately a year in which developed a most fatal infectious disease causing the death of hundreds of thousands of human beings. Medical science for four and one-half years devoted itself to putting men on the firing line and keeping them there. Now it must turn with its whole might to combating the greatest enemy of all--infectious disease," (12/28/1918). An Emergency Hospital for Influenza Patients The effect of the influenza epidemic was so severe that the average life span in the US was depressed by 10 years. The influenza virus had a profound virulence, with a mortality rate at 2.5% compared to the previous influenza epidemics, which were less than 0.1%. The death rate for 15 to 34-year-olds of influenza and pneumonia were 20 times higher in 1918 than in previous years (Taubenberger). People were struck with illness on the street and died rapid deaths. One anectode shared of 1918 was of four women playing bridge together late into the night. Overnight, three of the women died from influenza (Hoagg). Others told stories of people on their way to work suddenly developing the flu and dying within hours (Henig). One physician writes that patients with seemingly ordinary influenza would rapidly "develop the most viscous type of pneumonia that has ever been seen" and later when cyanosis appeared in the patients, "it is simply a struggle for air until they suffocate," (Grist, 1979). Another physician recalls that the influenza patients "died struggling to clear their airways of a blood-tinged froth that sometimes gushed from their nose and mouth," (Starr, 1976). The physicians of the time were helpless against this powerful agent of influenza. In 1918 children would skip rope to the rhyme (Crawford): I had a little bird, Its name was Enza. I opened the window, And in-flu-enza. The influenza pandemic circled the globe. Most of humanity felt the effects of this strain of the influenza virus. It spread following the path of its human carriers, along trade routes and shipping lines. Outbreaks swept through North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Brazil and the South Pacific (Taubenberger). In India the mortality rate was extremely high at around 50 deaths from influenza per 1,000 people (Brown). The Great War, with its mass movements of men in armies and aboard ships, probably aided in its rapid diffusion and attack. The origins of the deadly flu disease were unknown but widely speculated upon. Some of the allies thought of the epidemic as a biological warfare tool of the Germans. Many thought it was a result of the trench warfare, the use of mustard gases and the generated "smoke and fumes" of the war. A national campaign began using the ready rhetoric of war to fight the new enemy of microscopic proportions. A study attempted to reason why the disease had been so devastating in certain localized regions, looking at the climate, the weather and the racial composition of cities. They found humidity to be linked wit
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Swine Flu Created in Lab
According to the belief of two renowned reporters who spoke with top officials at the UN and WHO, the epidemic of the new strand of swine flu virus in Mexico is the result of an artificially created pathogen, the Online Journal reported. Swine flu, Ebola and HIV were produced in laboratories The reported from Mexico City claims that one of the leading UN scientists discovered certain joint More..transmission vectors, that is, the transmission of the swine flu virus is similar to the transmission of the Ebola virus and of the HIV/AIDS virus, which indicates that they were genetically modified with the aim of being military bio-weapons. The UN scientist is convinced that the swine flu virus, A-H1N1, and Ebola and HIV viruses were in fact manufactured biological weapons. As proof, they state that the usual process of transmission is that the virus is transmitted from a pig to a human, which is not the case in this outbreak because no case of a pig being infected with the A-H1N1 virus has been registered. Furthermore, the A-H1N1 virus partly contains American pig genes, partly human and bird flu strains and the virus of the Euro-Asian swine flu. American military responsible The other reporter, from Jakarta, claims that WHO leaders are worried that the current swine flu virus has been genetically modified to be transmitted from one species to another because of the fact that the A-H1N1 virus contains the genetic material of the H5N1 virus, that is, bird flu. Allegedly, American scientists exhumed the body of a woman who died of the Spanish flu in 1918 and used the genetic material of the flu virus as the basis for the creation of the H5N1 virus through genetic manipulation. All this happened in laboratories at the Fort Detrick military base from which the new strain of anthrax called ames originated. what do you think of this?
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Why is the Media giving Biden a hard time about being realistically cautious about the Flu Epidemic
He was honest in his opinion about staying away from places where the Flu could be spread quite easily to many people. - I'd follow his advice, personally. Considering the Flu may be easing, it may ALSO be going into an Incubation Period (as many diseases, viruses and bacteria do) and once Incubated, could come back with a vengeance ... as the Spanish Flu did in 1918. So why would the Media try to TRUMP on the words of the Vice President? - Does the Media WANT US TO CATCH IT?
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air force ones recent NYC stunt amp NOT closing the mexican border makes for a responsible president
and consider even more: the "stimulus package," which does not address rampant problems with a nation that has lived on credit far too long, and the bank bailouts not making those banks use our money to lend american companies the short term, prime rate, loans they desperately need for operating expenses until they receive their accounts payable, and that biden has to be a fall-guy cardboard cutout vice president with an IQ of somewhere around 55 (my opinion), leaving things such that if obama was dead/incapacitated, first biden would become the president and then, nancy pelosi (!!!), and given that afghanistan will be obama's war, most likely causing the draft to be reinstated to bring our boys back in pieces if their bodies can be identified or if they do not go missing in action, and that it seems that obama is Big Money's patsy (think that one over), do you think that obama has proved to us that he is going to be able to handle the myriad problems facing we, the citizens of our country well enough to make our country whole, and strong, and rich, again? i personally do not believe that the crazed flyover of NYC of what seemed to be the real airforce one, with its fighter plane(s), was unknown to the president because it's far too important of a plane and what president in his right mind and with all due loyalty to american citizens--and of course to businessmen conducting business all around the WORLD so that these high end bank bailouts have a chance to save the dollar--would NOT have immediately shut down the mexican border using our national guard when it was revealed to us that already, 81 mexicans had been killed by this epidemic... is a good president??? forgive my grammar: i am exhausted from my escape from mexico the other day--but it was my fortune to find a medical supply store that had surgical masks which i did buy and which i did wear in both the airports and the planes! but still, you hear that obama MEANT to tell us not to go onto an airplane if WE ourselves, not mexicans with mexican flu (why is asian flu and spanish flu called what they are called?) feel sick! please elaborate and feel free to come back to edit before this question is either spidered off this forum (like many of our questions suddenly are mysteriously removed for who knows what?), or before the best answer is chosen. the more you argue your point(s), the more i like you.
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Is the mortality rate for H1N1 really 67
That would be the deadliest flu since the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic. Why isn't the CDC coming out with more accurate numbers regarding numbers of infected people and mortality rates? From what I can see, that mortality rate is way off base and is causing unfounded fears. Any thoughts?
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