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Sounds like a bad joke, but it isn't. A H3N8 influenza strain has jumped species and killed at least 162 seals on the New England Coast. Seal pups under 6 months old were most affected by the pneumonia and skin lesions. Other marine animals, such as whales, may also get infected. The bird flu strains that have jumped to humans were H1N1 and H5N1. Nobody knows if the new seal flu is going to be able to infect humans, but it appears to be another bird flu that has traveled.

Cool: Google Flu Trends

w/ flu call musculoskeletal complaints concommitants
( notes on week 4 Taylor lecture )

Intravenous vitamin C is a very powerful treatment. It is used to successfully treat viral infections (esp hepatitis) and many many many other conditions. It would be a great loss of the pharm biz succeeds in driving this through.

You can get more info and send a message to the FDA through this page:
http://www.anh-usa.org/action-alert-now-the-fda-is-going-after-vitamin-c/

sounds like the flu vaccine they'll be pushing on seniors this year will contain 4x the antigen
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/08/21/barbara-loe-fisher-on-flu-vaccine-changes.aspx

We can give the H1N1 flu to our feline friends! If you have a kitty, wash your hands before you say hello with petting! The first case was in Iowa but now it has happened in Oregon and elsewhere.

Companion animals have been known to contract flu from other species — canine influenza (H3N8) originated in horses, and cats contract avian influenza (H5N1) from eating birds. But this appears to be the first time a cat has contracted influenza from a human. Two pet ferrets, one in Oregon and one in Nebraska, have also tested positive for H1N1, and the virus has also been transmitted between humans and pigs.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/the-cat-who-got-swine-flu/
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jPhJ3QpRycpDLrrOUwe7f4yZ5BSQD9CFBB6O0
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2009/nov/08/business/chi-flu-pets_mullennov08

( news tidbit courtesy of the Organic Consumers Association )

Seems likely at this point that the majority of fall illness is just people over-reacting to common colds. Funny how fear-mongering can plant the seeds of social collapse. CBS broke the story earlier this week. The CBC has admitted that the numbers are far lower than what is being reported in the media.

Here's the CBS report:

Watch CBS News Videos Online

and here's Mercola and his guest discussing the situation:

( notes )

( homework for Miller shift )

http://www.hpathy.com/diseases/Swine-flu-symptoms-treatment.asp
Don't assume that I approve. I'm filing this to examine it later.
( Text from link above behind cut. )

( Ruminations on the media hype, the governmental-pharmaceutical plan to vaccinate all of us, how you can avoid the vaccine and the disease, and how you can treat a flu the next time you get one. )

OK, here's the best overview of the current pandemic threat/media blitz that I have seen yet. Dr Mercola puts it all in perspective with science, and the history of previous disease threats and outcomes. The comments below the article discuss a bit about how people who went to "alternative" hospitals had the best survival rates of the flu of 1918.

They've figured out how the swine flu was transmitted from pigs-->people.

I've been using medscape to keep abreast of medical news...for a while now. They're good. Anyway, here's the swine flu alert center. I ran across an article that mentioned Medscape as possibly a good stock investment, too.

--4/28/09
--state and public health agencies authorized to widen the use of precise diagnostic test
--they want to find out for sure where this flu is and how fast it is spreading!
( more notes on swine influenza A (H1N1) )

--H1N1, type A
--California, Texas, Kansas, New York, Ohio
--http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/investigation.htm

--a swine flu
--not known where it began
--currently all over Mexico (including near the US border) and inside the US (CA)
--known outbreak began in mid March, this is very late in flu season
--they're calling it "entirely new". Is that H1N5? Or??
--affects young adults the most (possibly because older adults are more likely to have been exposed to a previous similar flu and to be immune)
--schools and events in Mexico City are closed
--in Mexico so far: 60 deaths and 1000 infected
--authorities are working to determine what kind of flu it is and come up with a vaccine
--athorities all over the world are working furiously on their prevention plans
--a "cure" is said to be possible if the flu is detected and treated early

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8017000/8017958.stm

It turns out that Strep super-infection may have killed many of the victims of this pandemic flu.
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE5146PD20090205?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews&sp=true

Keith Klugman of Emory University in Atlanta and colleagues looked at what information is available about the 1918 flu pandemic, which killed anywhere between 50 million and 100 million people globally in the space of about 18 months.

Some research has shown that on average it took a week to 11 days for people to die -- which fits in more with the known pattern of a bacterial infection than a viral infection, Klugman's group wrote in a letter to the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases.

"We observed a similar 10-day median time to death among soldiers dying of influenza in 1918," they wrote.

People with influenza often get what is known as a "superinfection" with a bacterial agent. In 1918 it appears to have been Streptococcus pneumoniae.

"Neither antimicrobial drugs nor serum therapy was available for treatment in 1918," Klugman's team wrote.

EDIT 5/2010
ASPIRIN ROLE IN FLU OF 1918 per Dr Blake
Bayer tried to patent aspirin
big lawsuit in teens to maintain patent, lost in 1917
then people can make aspirin at home
1917 everyone starts making generic aspirin
minimum toxic dose: 8g
during flu epidemic they were giving 5-8grams
new wonder drug given to soldiers, taking too high doses
soldiers die of pulmonary hemorrhage
news talks about how wicked strong the flu is but maybe the aspirin was killing

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE4BS56420081229
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from the Medical Herbalism Eletter
Periodically published by the North American Institute of Medical Herbalism
Contact them at http://medherb.com or http://naimh.com
December 2008
( article text )

( notes from Mercola )

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Entries tagged with flu

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