DailyDirt: Tis The Season To Catch The Flu
from the urls-we-dig-up dept
December is a time to celebrate the holidays with family and friends, but it's also when flu season starts ramping up. Several states have already reported an increase in flu activity, and it appears that the predominant strain of flu found in patients who have been hospitalized so far is H1N1 -- the "Swine Flu" that caused a global pandemic in 2009 but is now a human seasonal flu virus. Here are a few links about the flu season, pandemics, and vaccines.- The flu pandemic of 1918 killed more than 50 million people worldwide. The virus was a bird virus that had, by chance, acquired the ability to travel via coughing and sneezing, which enabled it to infect a person who then spread it others, starting the pandemic. Could an outbreak of that scale and lethality happen again? Possibly, but there are many events that have to come together just the right way for that to occur, and there's no way to predict it.[url]
- Flu season in the Northern Hemisphere starts in October and ends in May, typically peaking in February. In the Southern Hemisphere, flu season goes from May to October and usually peaks in August. But thanks to modern air travel, these complementary flu seasons can easily feed each other.[url]
- Scientists are working towards developing a new kind of flu vaccine -- one that would provide lifetime protection against many flu strains, including ones that haven't even evolved yet. The key to developing such a universal vaccine is to target an area of the flu virus that doesn't change very much, such as the stems of the surface proteins. Trials in mice and other animals have shown promising results, but it could be several years or decades before an effective universal vaccine becomes available for people.[url]
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Vitamin D and flu
Most of the vitamin D that humans need does not come from what we eat, but rather is manufactured when UV light strikes the skin. In winter, less exposure to sunlight can lead to an insufficient amount of vitamin D being produced.
Evolution has given us a clue. People with pale skin manufacture more vitamin D when exposed to sunlight than those with dark skin. But pale skin is much less protected from sunburn, which can lead to skin cancer. Dark skin offers good protection from sunburn, but is much less efficient at producing vitamin D. So it should come as no surprise that those who have lived for generations in cold climates are pale, and those whose ancestors lived in the tropics are dark. There is obvious survival value in this.
Fortunately, modern technology offers us a solution to both problems. If you're dark and live in a cold climate, you can benefit by taking vitamin D supplements - figure on 2000 to 5000 IUs per day during winter. If you're pale skinned and living in the tropics, vitamin D is not an issue, but invest in some sunblock lotion to prevent sunburn (and possible skin cancer).
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Deadly Vaccines
There's also a growing collection of articles at naturalnews.com/vaccines.html worth your perusal.
In short, I don't need the extra formaldehyde and mercury in my system. I'll take vitamin D and C any day.
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Smallpox and Rinderpest would like to have a word with you...
Other infectious diseases on the ropes due to the 'harmful' effects of vaccinations include:
-Poliomyelitis (polio)*
-Yaws
-Hookworm
-Malaria
-Lymphatic filariasis
-Measles
-Rubella
-Onchocerciasis
-Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and new variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eradication_of_infectious_diseases
*This one is of particular relevance to your comment, as it shows just what happens when vaccination efforts are stopped or delayed for a time. From the wiki page:
'The lowest annual polio prevalence seen so far was in 2012, with 223 reported cases. However, during the previous decade, following interruption of vaccination in Nigeria in 2003–4 and a reduction in immunisation in India in 2001–2, there was a resurgence of polio transmission: in 2001 there were 483 reported cases, but in the period of 2002 to 2010, the number of global reported cases remained between 750 and 2000 per year, with 1,349 cases in 2010. Some of these cases were the result of new importations in 31 countries which had previously interrupted transmission, leading to many subsequent outbreaks. Three further countries remain in which poliovirus transmission has never been interrupted (Nigeria, Pakistan, and Afghanistan). India was removed from the WHO list of polio-endemic countries in 2012 after no new cases were reported for one year. The 223 cases in 2012 were from 5 countries (122 in Nigeria; 58 in Pakistan; 37 in Afghanistan; 5 in Chad and 1 in Niger), compared to 650 cases from 16 countries for 2011.'
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Re: Smallpox and Rinderpest would like to have a word with you...
If they want to be idiots, I wish they would do it to themselves and leave their kids and the babies who can't be vaccinated out of it.
OP might also want to check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine_controversies and http://antiantivax.flurf.net/.
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Re: Deadly Vaccines
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DNA vaccine
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