How a Little-Known Science Can Protect You From Bird Flu
You can use a little-known branch of science to help protect yourself and your loved ones from the bird flu pandemic. It’s called evolutionary epidemiology. Basically, it means that microorganisms evolve in ways that encourage the survival and spread of their species. How this works in each human disease, depends on the nature of how the disease spreads. The common cold irritates but does not kill us — so we feel well enough to go to work and sneeze and cough on other people, thus spreading the virus. Malaria is a killer because sick malarial patients allow more mosquitoes to suck up their blood and then infect other people. There’s currently a scientific debate going on about what this means in connection with bird flu. Some scientists say that bird flu will not evolve into a highly contagious killer such as the 1918 virus because there is no World War I going on in Europe. Trench warfare conditions made that flu evolve into a fast killer, because the fast transmission of diseases causes them to evolve into virulent forms. Other scientists say that the A/H5N1 virus could still mutate or re-assort into a highly contagious and highly mortal killer of [...]
Bird Flu Survival: Learn How to Protect Yourself
Bird flu comes from South Asia and threatens to spread all over the world. Nowadays there is hardly a person who is not aware of expansion of the deadly disease, but still most of us do nothing in terms of protection, as we hope the virus won’t reach us. Even if the danger is overestimated, at least your conscience will be clear, as you’ve done the due diligence. It is not so difficult to take some preventive measures, because if the disaster occurs it will be too late. What to Start With? As the incubation period of this disease is equal to 3-5 days, you will have not much time to think over your auctions, and that is in case you KNOW you have been infected. So, it is necessary to think of possible ways of bird flu survival beforehand. The vaccine against bird flu has not been developed yet, for it needs some time to study the virus mutation in human body. But there are some prototypes which contain substances that may defend you from the disease. So, first of all, it is necessary to find an opportunity to take vaccine. The second step to [...]
How to Protect Your Family From Bird Flu — What Your Government Isn’t Telling You
If you want to trust you and your family’s health to the government — you deserve what happens to you. The United States Homeland Security Council in early May 2006 released a 233 page report called the Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Implementation Plan. In many ways, it’s very comprehensive — and it’s a great foundation for protecting ourselves, our families, our nation and our world. But it leaves out a huge portion of the solution to bird flu — “alternative” medicine. There are substances which could greatly increase the virus-zapping power of immune systems of people around the world — at a small fraction of the cost of expensive vaccines and Tamiflu. They could be easily administered by patients and family members. They could easily be distributed and used by everybody from wealthy countries to poor rural farmers. They are not magic bullet, 100% guaranteed cure-alls — but neither are vaccines or Tamiflu. They are not the only useful alternative medicine weapons against bird flu — not by a long shot — but some powerful substances could not be produced or grown in the mass quantities needed to take care of billions of people around the world. I’m not saying [...]
How to Protect Your Money from the Bird Flu Pandemic
I wanted to title this article, “How to Make Money From the Bird Flu Pandemic,” but the more I think about it, the more I think trying to outguess events will just be too risky. I’m sure that some people and companies will make a bird flu bet that pays off. They’ll buy stock in Roche or the companies that just got contracts from the United States government to make bird flu vaccines or in medical supplies or in some other way will make a killing. But I think there’re too many unknown factors. Will the virus ever become contagious to people? If so, will it retain its high mortality rate? Will it be quickly contained or will it spread? Prices of goods and services rise and fall in relation to supply and demand. That’s basic economics. The trouble is, depending on the answers to those questions and a host of other factors there will be numerous possibilities. Commodities rose in price during the 1918 flu pandemic. Possibly scared Americans would rush to buy oranges in the mistaken belief they contain enough Vitamin C to protect them from bird flu. Or maybe they’ll be smarter. Coffee is likely to be [...]
How to Protect Yourself From Bird Flu and Other Infections by Washing Your Hands — the Right Way
OK, so I sound like your mother — I accept that. Only I’m worse than your mother, because I want you to wash your hands more often than your mother did. And for a longer time and more thoroughly. If and when bird flu mutates into a virus that’s contagious between people, we can expect it to spread as easily as ordinary influenza, and the same way ordinary flu does Ordinary flu (and colds too) spreads primarily in two ways: contact spread and airborne spread. Airborne spread means that somebody sheds virus by coughing or sneezing, and the small droplets containing the virus hang in the air, and you breath them in. They can hang there for fifteen minutes or more before drifting to the ground. Experts disagree about whether contact spread or airborne spread causes more new infections of colds and flu. It’s a fact that you can dramatically reduce your chances of catching bird flu, ordinary flu, colds and other commons infections such as caliciviruses which causes nausea (stomach flu) by washing your hands to eliminate the risk of contact spread. It’s true washing your hands won’t help you if a bird flu patient sneezes into your face, [...]
1976 shot may protect against modern swine flu
Old swine flu vaccine may still protect MEMPHIS, April 23 (UPI) — New evidence indicates the 1976 swine flu vaccine may help protect against 2009 H1N1, U.S. researchers say. Read more on UPI 1976 shot may protect against modern swine flu People who got immunized against the 1976 “swine flu” epidemic that never happened may have benefited from the shots after all — they may have been protected from the 2009 H1N1 swine flu strain. Read more on Reuters via Yahoo! News