SWINE FLU...WHAT TO DO?

Just a note on this particular collection of links:
 In the future, I'll mainly only post links, not portions of articles, etc. Everything below was taken from an e-mail I prepared & sent out for inquiring minds, & I missed some of the links (& some articles were posted without links) so here it all is, for you to sort through.
 This is a serious issue that we need to take some time to educate ourselves about.
Once it hits your town, your job, your kid's school, & the pressure is on to get vaccinated, there'll be little time to sort through all the information to make a decision based on understanding, & not just emotion...the time to educate yourself, & to begin strengthening your immune system is now!
For the sake of your future, & the future of those you love, please take the time to learn about this, & share it with anyone & everyone you care about!!!
~Anastazia~
 "Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers. 
For I rejoiced greatly when brethren came and testified of the truth that is in you, just as you walk in the truth." 3 John Ch.1 verses 2-3
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http://www.hacres.com/healthtipArticles2009/616_5.asp
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http://rawfoodrestaurantguide.com/blog/?p=57
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Swine Flu Hype site (by a Doctor, with lots of links/videos)
http://drtenpenny.com/swine_flu_hype.aspx
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The Government goes after Dr. Weil for offering immune system builder products!
http://mythreebuns.blogspot.com/2009/10/swine-flu-racket-fda-threatens-dr-weil.html
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According to the Associated Press at least one financial analyst estimates up to $388 million worth of Tamiflu sales in the near future10 -- and that's without a pandemic outbreak.

 More than half a dozen pharmaceutical companies, including Gilead Sciences Inc., Roche, GlaxoSmithKline and other companies with a stake in flu treatments and detection, have seen a rise in their shares in a matter of days, and will likely see revenue boosts if the swine flu outbreak continues to spread.
 As soon as Homeland Security declared a health emergency, 25 percent -- about 12 million doses -- of Tamiflu and Relenza treatment courses were released from the nation's stockpile. However, beware that the declaration also allows unapproved tests and drugs to be administered to children. Many health- and government officials are more than willing to take that chance with your life, and the life of your child. But are you?
Remember, Tamiflu went through some rough times not too long ago, as the dangers of this drug came to light when, in 2007, the FDA finally began investigating some 1,800 adverse event reports related to the drug.
Common side effects of Tamiflu include:
Nausea/Vomiting/Diarrhea/Headache/Dizziness/Fatigue/Cough
All in all, the very symptoms you're trying to avoid!
 More serious symptoms included convulsions, delirium or delusions, and 14 deaths in children and teens as a result of neuropsychiatric problems and brain infections (which led Japan to ban Tamiflu for children in 2007). And that's for a drug that, when used as directed, only reduces the duration of influenza symptoms by 1 to 1 ½ days, according to the official data.
But making matters worse, some patients with influenza are at HIGHER risk for secondary bacterial infections when on Tamiflu. And secondary bacterial infections, as I mentioned earlier, was likely the REAL cause of the mass fatalities during the 1918 pandemic!
Taken from this article:
 http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/04/29/Swine
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H1N1: The Church's Response (Videos on 100 Huntley Street):
http://100huntley.com/video.php?id=WH6b8fgpxdQ
 Part Two:
http://100huntley.com/video.php?id=vJAUlNnc-Og
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What International Health Expert Thinks of the Flu Vaccine (Newer article)
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/11/17/Obama-Administration-Launches-Deceptive-Swine-Flu-Propaganda-Blitz.aspx
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http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2001/03/07/vaccine-ingredients.aspx
According to the above site, done by a Medical Doctor,
this is what is in the "Swine-Flu" Vaccine:
aluminum hydroxide
aluminum phosphateammonium
sulfateamphotericin
Banimal tissues: pig blood, horse blood, rabbit brain, dog kidney, monkey kidney, chick embryo, chicken egg, duck eggcalf (bovine) serumbetapropiolactonefetal bovine serumformaldehydeformalin
gelatin
glycerolhuman
diploid cells (originating from human aborted fetal tissue)
hydrolized gelatin
monosodium glutamate (MSG)
neomycinneomycin
sulfatephenol
red indicatorphenoxyethanol (antifreeze)
potassium diphosphate
potassium monophosphate
polymyxin
Bpolysorbate
20polysorbate
80porcine (pig)
pancreatic hydrolysate of casein
residual MRC5 proteins
sorbitol
sucrosethimerosal (mercury)
tri(n)butylphosphate,
VERO cells,
a continuous line of monkey kidney cellswashed sheep red blood cells
COMMENT AFTER THIS WAS POSTED:
This is very disconcerting.
Every Jew and every adherent to the Islamic faith should be concerned about the use of pig parts in this vaccine. Christians and Jews should be concerned about the use of aborted fetal tissue.        I don't like the MSG because it gives me headaches. The list of side effects from this witches' brew could fill an entire book.
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Swine flu jab link to killer nerve disease: Leaked letter reveals concern of neurologists over 25 deaths in America By Jo MacfarlaneLast updated at 11:05 PM on 15th August 2009A warning that the new swine flu jab is linked to a deadly nerve disease has been sent by the Government to senior neurologists in a confidential letter.The letter from the Health Protection Agency, the official body that oversees public health, has been leaked to The Mail on Sunday, leading to demands to know why the information has not been given to the public before the vaccination of millions of people, including children, begins.
More at:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1206807/Swine-flu-jab-link-killer-nerve-disease-Leaked-letter-reveals-concern-neurologists-25-deaths-America.html#ixzz0OQNi00PO


http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=107064
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Obama Declares Swine Flu Emergency: The TRUTH behind this, & whay's REALLY been going on! (EXCELLENT SITE WITH TONS OF INFO/GOOD COMMENTS AT BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE, AS WELL...GOOD LINKS, TOO!)
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/10/27/Obama-Declares-Swine-Flu-Emergency.aspx
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Videos at YouTube on Swine Flu:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXBV2jGrBg8&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fraw100%2Ening%2Ecom%2Fvideo%2Fquarantine%2Dor%2D1000day%2Dfine%2Dfor&feature=player_embedded

Cheerleader gets Flu shot, now she can only walk backwards!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mScGC7nFDxM&feature=popt00us0a


http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=swine+flu&search_type=&aq=f

Gary Null on Vaccine dangers:
Part 1:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3XlJB7J5-o 
Part 2:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch5OuzB9L48
Part 3:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAgWO2yq1k8

Gary Null: Flu Vaccines; Are They Safe & Effective? (PDF paper)
http://www.garynull.com/SwineFluWhitePaper.pdf
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http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/11/12/Was-an-EightYearOlds-Death-Caused-by-His-Flu-Shot.aspx
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Swine Flu Government Data Scam
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/731.html
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 Doctors and freedom-of-choice advocates speak out about why you should avoid the swine flu vaccine.
http://www.pandemicfluonline.com/?p=1583

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Modern medicine is rife with conflicts of interest. Today, we bring you a story about Dr. Mehmet Oz and the SEC documents that prove he holds 150,000 option shares in a vaccine-related technology company that could reap a windfall of profits from the increased use of vaccines in modern medicine:

http://www.naturalnews.com/027451_Dr_Mehmet_Oz_vaccines.html
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Why is Canada Changing Its Flu Vaccine Policy?
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/11/10/Canadian-Provinces-Suspend-Seasonal-Flu-Shots-and-Recommend-Vitamin-D.aspx
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Authorities Prepare To Seize Kids During Swine Flu Pandemic
http://www.prisonplanet.com/authorities-prepare-to-seize-kids-durin...
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VIDEO: CNN Headline News -- Inhumane Factory Farming Practices to Blame for Flu Outbreak http://www.vegsource.com/articles2/media_swine_flu1.htm
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The Swine Flu Vaccine: Will it Be Mandatory ... and More Importantly, Is it Safe?
 Not one, not two, but THREE doses of flu vaccine (many of them containing mercury!) may start being pushed on you come fall. What are the real facts and risks about the swine flu vaccine?
More articles on swine flu from SixWise:
http://www.google.com/customdomains=www.Sixwise.com&q=swineflu&sa=Search&sitesearch=Sixwise.com&client=pub-9260227133779112&forid=1&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&cof=GALT%3A%23008000%3BGL%3A1%3BDIV%3A%23336699%3BVLC%3A663399%3BAH%3Acenter%3BBGC%3AFFFFFF%3BLBGC%3A336699%3BALC%3A0000FF%3BLC%3A0000FF%3BT%3A000000%3BGFNT%3A0000FF%3BGIMP%3A0000FF%3BFORID%3A1%3B&hl=en
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From the "Food Matters" site (with an excellent video on it...here's the free preview link):
http://www.foodmatters.tv/ )
http://www.foodmatters.tv/_webapp/Newsletter%20-%20Swine%20Flu%20%e2%80%93%20what%20youve%20not%20been%20told
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NaturalNews has now confirmed that CDC laboratories are incapable of testing all the influenza samples they're being sent. Backlogged beyond all reason, the CDC's official "confirmed" numbers of H1N1 infections and deaths are so low as to be utterly meaningless.
Read my story to find out why one epidemiologist admits, "The specimens are coming in faster than they can possibly be tested..."
http://www.naturalnews.com/026179.html

Today I've also posted a timeline of the history of pandemic outbreaks, from 412BC to today:
http://www.naturalnews.com/026178.html

And here are some commonsense recommendations for avoiding any flu:
http://www.naturalnews.com/026174.html
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"Mock-up" pandemic vaccines bypass genuine safety testing, turning population into guinea pigs
http://www.naturalnews.com/026977_pandemic_vaccines_drug_companies.html
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A collection of articles on the swine flu:
http://www.naturalnews.com/GoogleSearchResults.html?q=swine+flu&cx=010579349100583850635%3Aw_kzwe9_yca&cof=FORID%3A11&ie=UTF-8&sa.x=34&sa.y=14#1340
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/nationwide-revolt-against-mass-swine-flu-vaccination-accelerates.html
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More articles from this site {Prison Planet}
http://prisonplanet.com/search-result.html?cx=007184093999670235891%3A0_8izx-_bou&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=UTF-8&q=swine+flu&sa=Search#982
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Read the full story...

H1N1 Swine Flu Scenarios: Best Case, Worst Case Predictions
http://www.prisonplanet.com/nationwide-revolt-against-mass-swine-flu-vaccination-accelerates.html
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Squalene: The Swine Flu Vaccine’s Dirty Little Secret Exposed
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/08/04/Squalene-The-Swine-Flu-Vaccines-Dirty-Little-Secret-Exposed.aspx

More articles on Swine Flu on Dr. Mercola's site:
http://search.mercola.com/Results.aspx?k=swineflu
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http://www.momsraw.com/2009/04/swine-flu-for-suckers.html
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RON PAUL "SWINE FLU SKEPTIC" On ABC
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/026553.html
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http://alligatorfarm.wordpress.com/truthswineflu/500000polyguardcoffins/ (Comment that followed the above link) "The language stopped me from reading. Very ugly. Could you give me the bottom line please?"
(Response) "I dont read the peoples responses for they can get ugly but this is saying that a lady was taking her evidence that she had about the swine flu vaccinations being forced upon us,to court but she was afraid for herself of being harmed and now she has dissappeared and they are still trying to convince us to have this vaccination done but reports states that its very deadly and some health officials know of this and are prepared for bodies when this starts and military is getting ready for those of us who refused this."
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Colloidal silver can be best defense against swine flu:
http://english.pravda.ru/science/health/30-04-2009/107477-Colloidal_silver-0-
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I am passing on an article about how the new swine flu vaccine is made and the risks it has for all of us with autoimmune conditions (Isn't that all of us?) Keep in mind, also, that if you are over 64, you are probably already immune to swine flu, having been exposed at some time in your past. And anyone who got a shot for swine flu in the 70's is also immune.
After reading the article, I feel the LDN will provide better protection than the vaccine would to those under 64.
I hope I am not overstepping the bounds of this site by reporting this. I would appreciate the opinion of the medical experts on this."Vaccine May Be More Dangerous Than Swine Flu"Tuesday, July 7, 2009 9:54 AMBy: Dr. Russell Blaylock An outbreak of swine flu occurred in Mexico this spring that eventually affected 4,910 Mexican citizens and resulted in 85 deaths. By the time it spread to the United States, the virus caused only mild cases of flu-like illness. Thanks to air travel and the failure of public health officials to control travel from Mexico, the virus spread worldwide.
Despite predictions of massive numbers of deaths and the arrival of doomsday, the virus has remained a relatively mild disease, something we know happens each year with flu epidemics. Worldwide, there have only been 311 deaths out of 70,893 cases of swine flu. In the United States, 27,717 cases have resulted in 127 deaths. Every death is a tragedy, but such a low death rate should not be the basis of a draconian government policy.
It is helpful to recall that the Centers for Disease Control with the collusion of the media, constantly tell us that 36,000 people die from the flu each year, a figure that has been shown to be a lie. In this case, we are talking about 300 plus deaths for the entire world.


This virus continues to be an enigma for virologists. In the April 30, 2009 issue of Nature, a virologist was quoted as saying,"Where the hell it got all these genes from we don't know." Extensive analysis of the virus found that it contained the original 1918 H1N1 flu virus, the avian flu virus (bird flu), and two new H3N2 virus genes from Eurasia.
Debate continues over the possibility that swine flu is a genetically engineered virus Naturally, vaccine manufacturers have been in a competitive battle to produce the first vaccine. The main contenders have been Baxter Pharmaceuticals and Novartis Pharmaceuticals, the latter of which recently acquired the scandal-ridden Chiron vaccine company.
Both of these companies have had agreements with the World Health Organization to produce a pandemic vaccine. The Baxter vaccine, called Celvapan, has had fast track approval. It uses a new vero cell technology, which utilizes cultured cells from the African green monkey. This same animal tissue transmits a number of vaccine-contaminating viruses, including the HIV virus.


The Baxter company has been associated with two deadly scandals. The first event occurred in 2006 when hemophiliac components were contaminated with HIV virus and injected in tens of thousands of people, including thousands of children. Baxter continued to release the HIV contaminated vaccine even after the contamination was known.
The second event occurred recently when it was discovered that Baxter had released a seasonal flu vaccine containing the bird flu virus, which would have produced a real world pandemic, to 18 countries. Fortunately, astute lab workers in the Czech Republic discovered the deadly combination and blew the whistle before a worldwide disaster was unleashed.
Despite these two deadly events, WHO maintains an agreement with Baxter Pharmaceuticals to produce the world's pandemic vaccine. Novartis, the second contender, also has an agreement with WHO for a pandemic vaccine. Novartis appears to have won the contract, since their vaccine is near completion.
What is terrifying is that these pandemic vaccines contain ingredients, called immune adjuvants that a number of studies have shown cause devastating autoimmune disorders, including rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and lupus. Animal studies using this adjuvant have found them to be deadly. A study using 14 guinea pigs found that when they were injected with the special adjuvant, only one animal survived. A repeat of the study found the same deadly outcome.
So, what is this deadly ingredient? It is called squalene, a type of oil. The Chiron company, maker of the deadly anthrax vaccine, makes an adjuvant called MF-59 which contains an ingredient of serious concern--squalene A number of studies have shown that squalene can trigger all of the above-mentioned autoimmune diseases when injected. The MF-59 adjuvant has been used in several vaccines. These vaccines, including tetanus and diphtheria, are the same vaccines frequently associated with adverse reactions.
I reviewed a number of studies on this adjuvant and found something quite interesting. Several studies done on human test subjects found MF-59 to be a very safe immune adjuvant. But when I checked to see who did these studies, I found to no surprise that they were done by the Novartis Pharmaceutical Company and Chiron Pharmaceutical Company, which have merged. They were all published in "prestigious" medical journals.
Also, to no surprise, a great number of studies done by independent laboratories and research institutions all found a strong link between MF-59 and autoimmune diseases.


Squalene in vaccines has been strongly linked to the Gulf War Syndrome. On August 1991, Anthony Principi, Secretary of Veterans Affairs admitted that soldiers vaccinated with the anthrax vaccine from 1990 to 1991 had an increased risk of 200 percent in developing the deadly disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also called Lou Gehrig's disease.
The soldiers also suffered from a number of debilitating and life-shortening diseases, such as polyarteritis nodosa, multiple sclerosis (MS), lupus, transverse myelitis (a neurological disorder caused by inflammation of the spinal cord), endocarditis (inflammation of the heart's inner lining), optic neuritis with blindness and glomerulonephritis (a type of kidney disease).


Because squalene, the main ingredient in MF-59, can induce hyperimmune responses and induce autoimmunity, a real danger exists for prolonged activation of the brain's immune cells, the microglia. This type of prolonged activation has been strongly associated with such diseases as multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, ALS and possibly vaccine-related encephalitis. It has been shown that activation of the systemic immune system, as occurs with vaccination, rapidly activates the brain's microglia at the same time, and this brain inflammation can persist for long periods.
What most people do not know, even the doctors who recommend the vaccines, is that most studies by pharmaceutical companies observe the patients for only one to two weeks following vaccinations, these types of reactions may take months or even years to manifest.
It is obvious that the vaccine manufacturers stand to make billions of dollars in profits from this WHO/government-promoted pandemic. Novartis, the maker of the new pandemic vaccine, recently announced that they would not give free vaccines to impoverished nations, everybody pays. One must keep in mind that once the vaccine is injected, there is little you can do to protect yourself at least by conventional medicine. It will mean a lifetime of crippling illness and early death.
There are much safer ways to protect oneself from this flu virus, such as higher doses of vitamin D3, selective immune enhancement using supplements, and a good diet."
Posted on a Natural cures for MS yahoo group:
 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/mscured/?yguid=175186582
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Last week the flu was all that we talked about -- Mexico has been nearly paralysed and across the world leaders halted air travel, banned porkimports and initiated drastic controls to mitigate the spreading virus. As the threat shows signs of subsiding the question becomes where it came fromand how we stop another outbreak. Smithfield Corporation, the largest pig producer in the world whose farmis being fingered as the source of the H1N1 outbreak, denies any connection between their pigs and the flu and big agrobusiness worldwide pays huge sums of money for research to argue that biosafety is ensured in industrial hog production. But the WHO has been saying for years that 'a new pandemic isinevitable'
(2) and experts from the European Commission and the FAO havecautioned that the rapid move from small holdings to industrial pigproduction is in fact increasing the risk of development and transmission of disease epidemics. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warn that scientists still do not know the extent that infectious compounds produced in factory farms affect human health.
(3)Studies abound of the horrific conditions endured by pigs in concentrated large-scale operations, and the devastating economic impact on small farmercommunities of bloated large-scale operations.(4) Smithfield itself hasalready been fined $12.6m and is currently under another federalinvestigation in the US for toxic environmental damage from pig excrementlakes.(5)But even with all of this damaging evidence, a combination of increased global meat consumption and a powerful industry motivated by profit at thecost of human health, means that instead of being shut down - these sickening factory farm operations are propagating around the world and we are subsidising them.
(6) In the wake of this swine flu threat, let's hold industrial pig producers to account. Sign the petition for investigation and regulation: http://www.avaaz.org/en/swine_flu_pandemic
If we resolve this global health crisis boldly by reassessing our food consumption and production, and urgently calling for an inquiry into the impact of factory farms on human health, we could put in place tough farm practice rules that will save the global population from future animal borne lethal pandemics. http://www.avaaz.org/en/swine_flu_pandemic
in hope, Alice, Pascal, Graziela, Paul, Brett, Ben, Ricken, Iain, Paula, Luis, Raj, Veronique, Milena, Margaret, Taren and the whole Avaaz team(1) Biosurveillance report tracing the disease to the Smithfields farm: http://biosurveillance.typepad.com/biosurveillance/2009/04/swine-flu-in-mexico-timeline-of-events.html
Reports on the link between the Mexican factory farm and the flu:
 http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/for-la-gloria-the-stench-of-blame-is-from-pig-factories-1675809.html

http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-fg-mexico-flu28-2009apr28,0,1701782.story


http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=can-swine-flu-be-blamed-on-industri-09-05-01


http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227063.800-swine-flu-the-predictable-pandemic.html?full=true


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/swine-flu-outbreak----nat_b_191408.html

(2) WHO pandemic information http://www.euro.who.int/influenza/20080618_19
(3) FAO, EC and CDC reports on the risks of industrial farming on public health FAO and CIWF and http://www.cdc.gov/cafos/about.htm

(4) CIWF and PETA video reports of the disgusting conditions for animals in factory farms and the disease ridden manure swamps: CIWF and PETA(5) Reports on Smithfield's animal welfare and environmental damage
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/for-la-gloria-the-stench-of-blame-is-from-pig-factories-1675809.html
http://avaazimages.s3.amazonaws.com/SmithfieldJan08.pdf

(6) Reports on UK tax payers subsidising factory farms
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/agriculture/farming/5225298/Taxpayers-forking-out-700-million-for-factory-farming-in-England.html
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Hello All,
I've been hearing talk on the news about "fears" that some "strains" of "flu" have a particularly voracious appetite for young, vital and otherwise healthy "victims". There should be no doubt in anybody's mind that this is more vile propaganda, of the highest order, designed to make us think that we have no control over whether we get sick. In the medical religion, nobody is absolved, everyone is sinful. Like accidental death, medical practitioners want us to think that the question of who contracts disease is pretty much a crap shoot. The best you can do is stay in the system because the system will keep you "safe". Medicine is analogous to many other systems in our society that pretend to offer security, but really only take away freedom and control. This lie that particular bugs like to attack healthy people is designed to combat YOU and ME, because we've figured out that we have total control over whether or not we get sick. With this lie, the medical establishment reveals that they will expend some effort to try and lasso the weakest of the strays back into the system.

When the medical liars say that a "bug" "targets" healthy people, what they're saying is that among the newly afflicted are people who formerly passed for healthy under the medical definition. I don't think I have to explain the difference between real health and the medical version. People who are living the SAD lifestyle and still managing somehow to walk around and function are defined as "healthy". At any given moment, their bodies could declare "enough!" and institute "flu" symptoms. Were these people previously healthy? No, obviously. "Flu" symptoms are the entirely natural and predictable result of toxemia, which is not even recognized as a cause of disease by the medical profession. People create their own disease, through their own daily choices (except children, who suffer from disease because of their parents' unfortunate choices).

As we health-seekers know, people do sometimes get "flu" (cleansing) symptoms after they make improvements to their diets. However, those people don't get sicker and they don't die. What a ridiculous idea. Does your car run *worse* after you change the oil? Does your vision get fuzzier after you clean your glasses? Is your garbage can heavier after it's dumped by the trashmen? I hope it becomes clear how sad, unnecessary and criminal it is that people have to die from simple cleansing symptoms. All it would take to save them is an open mind, the kind that you and I have.

Additionally, let's not make the mistake of thinking that this whole preposterous episode failed in some way, since reports are now coming in that the "flu" was "mild". It did not fail. It was a dry run, secondarily intended to see how much of a frenzy the media machine could whip up but primarily designed to prepare us to accept what's coming next. That's exactly what it did.
Best wishes,
Nora Lenz,  http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Rawschool/
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Swine Flu Hysteria Spreads Faster Than Actual Virus Why are governments acting as if armageddon is around the corner when swine flu has claimed just one victim all week? Paul Joseph Watson
 Prison Planet.com Friday, May 1, 2009

Despite the fact that swine flu has claimed just one victim all week, a kill rate multiple times lower than the common flu, governments of the world are acting as if armageddon is right around the corner.
The World Health Organization calls a virus that has killed a confirmed 12 people in over a week a “threat to humanity” while talk of martial law, mandatory vaccinations and forced quarantines runs rampant.
Much of the hysteria is being fueled by people inundating hospitals and doctor’s offices who have mundane illnesses like the common cold, but who just want to “make sure” they don’t have swine flu. Such cases are immediately treated as “suspected swine flu cases” by the media and the panic spreads faster than the actual virus,
which according to Mexican health officials is now clearly slowing down.
However, while media headlines and government advisors scream about a potential pandemic and hundreds of thousands of fatalities, an anonymous GP writing for the London Guardian today explains that calls from people worried they have swine flu have tailed off, while people with flu symptoms are almost non-existent.

“Yesterday we had two such calls: a patient just returned from Turkey who had diarrhoea and wondered if it could be flu, and an elderly lady wanting advice about her husband who has respiratory problems. Should he be started on Tamiflu? Simple answer: No,” he writes.
“Today, so far, there have been no calls at all. We have 15,000 patients and are close to one of the larger airports in England, but have not seen a case of flu. We have not had a single patient worrying that he or she might have flu. It feels like a phoney war. We have seen two patients with heart attacks, three acute asthmatic attacks, and a child who had swallowed an implausibly large piece of Lego. Such is general practice.”

However, on the flip side we’ve received reports that the virus is spreading far worse than officially recognized. As we reported yesterday, a doctor in Texas claims that the crisis is at least 10 times worse than reported and that a level 6 pandemic is already in effect.

We can draw the same conclusion that we proposed nearly a week ago just after all this started. Either the spread and severity of the disease is far worse than has been reported or, if the official fatality figures of just 12 confirmed deaths is accurate, governments are engaged in a mammoth fearmongering campaign in order to beta-test the martial law procedures that they eventually plan to institute.
Suspension of constitutional rights and the implementation of martial law is already being discussed as a possible response to something that has not claimed a single life of a U.S. citizen.
In addition, pharmaceutical companies with deep ties to the establishment are making obscene profits while governments are cashing in on huge stocks of Tamiflu purchased four years ago to fight a bird flu pandemic that never came, before the drugs pass their expiry date and are useless.
Governments are parroting the line that they are “well prepared” to fight swine flu because of the billions of dollars spent on preparing for the threat of avian flu in 2005 and 2006. The U.S. and UK governments bought a combined 34.6 million doses of Tamiflu alone in October 2005, costing billions of dollars. The shelf life on those doses is quickly running out. Along comes a swine flu scare just at the right time to allow them to shift millions of batches of stock that would otherwise be heading for the landfill.

If the official figures of hundreds infected and just 12 dead are accurate more than a week after the outbreak of the virus, it seems that our first hunch has been proven true. The swine flu story is merely a repeat of the cynical and agenda-driven scare of 1976, when more people ended up dying as a result of taking the vaccine than from the actual virus itself.

As Simon Jenkins discusses, we’ve seen it all too often before. During the BSE scare in Britain in the mid-nineties, we were told that the disease had “the potential to infect up to 10 million Britons”. The damage done by the disease was virtually none yet the meat industry was savaged and British farming was all but destroyed.

Likewise, in 2003 Dr Patrick Dixon, formerly of the London Business School, created a furore when he stated the SARS virus had “a 25% chance of killing tens of millions”. The virus killed 774 between November 2002 and July 2003 and there hasn’t been a single infection in the six years since.

A fatality figure in the millions was again hyped during the avian flu scare of 2005-2006, another doomsday scenario that never happened.

Compared to the lethality of swine flu, these diseases had a far greater impact, and yet none of them even came close to living up to the same “end-is-nigh” proclamations made by health authorities that we are again hearing today.
Yet another Crisis, Yet another Call for World Government Jurriaan Maessen, Infowars, May 1, 2009
From the people who brought us key Pentagon documents on Strategic Information Warfare (SIW) and advisories on igniting wars with China and other ’super regions’, now comes a document published in late March of 2009 named the ‘Initial Evaluation of the Cities Readiness Initiative’. Published just a month before the recent swine flu outbreak in Mexico, the document arrives just in time to deal with the response and readiness of cities in case of a bio-terrorist attack or, as now applies, a naturally occurring disease outbreak.

RAND produced the "Initial Evaluation of the Cities Readiness Initiative."
In the study that the RAND-corporation did at the request of the Centres for Disease Control (CDC) on the existing Cities Readiness Initiative, the infamous globalist think- tank provided a favourable review of the existing program but added a few improvements of its own. Besides several mentions of emergency response in regards to disease outbreaks- amongst which a disturbing mention of mass vaccination plans- the main thread of the piece points to an increased central planning of actions as opposed to a decentralised response coordination. The tone is set at the very start of the ‘technical report’, where the authors explain:
‘Over the past decade, concern about the threat of bio-terrorism, pandemics, and other large-scale natural disasters has spurred large federal investments in state and local response capabilities.’
‘Since 2004′, the report continues, ‘CRI (Cities Readiness Initiative) has expended some $300 million to improve the ability of the nation’s largest metropolitan regions to provide life-saving medications in the event of a large-scale bio-terrorist attack or naturally occurring disease outbreak.
Administered by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Division of Strategic National Stockpile (DSNS), CRI seeks to help awardees respond to a large-scale anthrax attack or other large-scale public health emergency by providing antibiotics and other life-saving medical supplies to 100 percent of a planning jurisdiction’s population within a 48-hour time frame. The program currently includes 72 metropolitan regions and covers an estimated 57 percent of the of the U.S. population.’

Related to the extend of the CDC’s jurisdiction in times of such an emergency is the Division of Strategic National Stockpile (DSNS), that acts as a medical reserve in case local and state medical resources become exhausted. Lisa Schnirring, a staff writer for the Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy, sums up the most prominent findings by RAND’s researchers:
‘The program’s focus on a single scenario- an aerosol anthrax attack- along with specific targets has helped recipients prioritize their resources and reach out to vital partners, the authors reported. However, they found that areas with decentralized public health systems had a harder time forging relationships with other first responders, often because of the sheer number of jurisdictions.’

RAND therefore advises more central planning in regards to emergency response. Bio- terror attacks and disease outbreak are mentioned in the same breath so as to bring out a common and federal response for both later on. In a so-called ‘working paper’ issued by the RAND corporation prepared for the U.S. Department of Health in 2007, several drills are being proposed where different departments (CDC/DSNS and others) can practise and streamline their efforts. Under the headline ‘Embedding Drills in Routine and Small- Scale Events Might Increase Relevance’, the report mentions some earlier situations in which real events were combined with emergency response drills: (page 11):
‘Several jurisdictions are already using non-routine practises or small-scale emergencies to test large-scale response capabilities. For example, several jurisdictions used the influenza vaccine shortfall of 2004 as an opportunity to test the public health department’s incident command structure during an effort to mass vaccinate a large number of individuals in a single day (Seid. et al., 2006). Other jurisdictions have used annual flu clinics to test mass dispensing procedures for the SNS-program, which alleviates some of the costs associated with recruiting volunteers to act as test patients.’

In the same RAND- working paper, the authors conclude that an adequate mass counter- measure response is far from perfected and that further drills may be necessary in order to improve on the details (page 49):
‘While there is strong evidence that CRI (Cities Readiness Initiative) has improved planning for mass countermeasure dispensing, we were unable to assess jurisdictions’ ability to implement their mass dispensing plans in emergency conditions. Given the rarity of large-scale public health emergencies, demonstrations of these operational capabilities must come largely through exercises.’
The RAND people advise more frequently held exercises by lack of real emergencies, to test the ability for mass dispensing plans (read: mass vaccination efforts). As we learned under the report’s ‘Embedding Drills in Routine and Small-Scale Events Might Increase Relevance’, real events can be used to test and further improve their effectiveness.

Although a large-scale exercise might be difficult to achieve in the western world, such exercises are far easier to do in developing countries- where there is more open and widespread corruption and less constitutional boundaries holding you back. In March of 2007 the Rockefeller Foundation provided financial support through their ‘Disease Surveillance Networks Initiative’ to the RAND corporation ‘to conduct pandemic simulation exercises, both at a country-level as well as across the region.’, reports the Rockefeller Foundation’s website. On March 14 2007 the Foundation released a document called ‘Southeast Asian Nations Conduct Joint Exercise in Cambodia to Improve Flu Pandemic Response’. In this document, the infrastructure of the operation is explained:
‘Using techniques similar to those in modern war-gaming, the tabletop exercise was designed to foster cooperation among countries in the Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance Network (MBDS), the region seen as the most likely source of a potentially devastating flu pandemic such as avian flu. The exercise also helped identify gaps and weaknesses in systems for detecting, monitoring, tracking and containing the deadly disease. Senior Officials from the governments of Cambodia, China, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand- including officials from the ministries of health, foreign affairs, agriculture, tourism and security as well as representatives from the UN, UNICEF, UNSIC, UNOCHA and a regional institute– participated today and yesterday in the exercise, which they designed and ran in collaboration with health specialists from the RAND corporation. The event was sponsored by the Nuclear Threat Initiative’s Global Health and Security Initiative, with additional funding from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Rockefeller Foundation. The exercise is a component of the MBDS, which was developed with support from the Rockefeller Foundation.’

As we have learned from the tragic events of 911, real threats and emergency response drills are not mutually exclusive as one cloaks the other. More often than not the edges are blurred, so it is impossible to say where the real event ends and the exercise begins and vice versa. This is the true curtain of fog behind which the globalists operate. As all of the different divisions are compartmentalised to focus on their small part within the great infrastructure, only the people at the very top have the entire map laid down in front of them on which they move the chess pieces around according to their designs. In light of the recent swine flu outbreak, we’re obviously experiencing a huge psyop drill to both assess the current status of centrally planned coordination of countermeasures (such as mass vaccinations) and acclimate the general public to such central coordinated actions in case of emergencies, whether real or feigned. But there is a third reason for such a psyop- and it fits in perfectly with the global agenda being pushed by the very same institutions that fostered the economic crisis, and are now crying for world government.
Almost six months after the mass exercise in Southeast Asia, the Foundation published another document called The Global Challenge of Health Systems. It is a summary of Pocantico II- a meeting held under auspices of the Rockefeller Foundation with high- ranking attendees including the Deputy Secretary General of the UN, Dr. Asha-Rose Migiro. In the preface of the publication, the Foundation’s managing director Ariel Pablos-Mendez explains that all attendees are in agreement when it comes to global response and coordination needed for future ‘emergencies’:
‘The participants agreed that the (Rockefeller) Foundation should support efforts to rethink the overall global architecture of health institutions.’
Later on in the report (page 5), the authors elaborate on these ‘efforts’ and recent steps taken to ensure that all heads are pointed in the same direction:
‘Recently a number of initiatives have been launched to help strengthen health systems, including those by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and a network of ministers of Foreign Affairs. The Rockefeller Foundation itself is supporting a joint initiative of the United Nations and the Council on Foreign Relations to rethink the architecture of international health institutions.’

To assist in this process of ‘rethinking’ this global architecture in regards to global pandemic outbreaks, the report mentions that: ‘…The group agreed there would continue to be the rising threat of global pandemics. While new diseases may be emerging at roughly the same rate as before, the trends of globalisation speed their spread and thus increase the threat of new pandemics. Globalisation trends make it essential for health systems to improve surveillance and develop appropriate rapid response approaches.’

Slowly the picture becomes more clear as yet another crisis is generated and more fear is being pumped into society’s bloodstream. As recent developments have showed, the global financial crisis is used as the perfect pretext for world government. A global pandemic outbreak does the same. A global threat gives the power behind the throne the tools it needs to come up with a global response, and another step towards world dictatorship has been taken.
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SOURCE: http://www.michelesphotorestorations.com/Vaccinations.html
The World Health Organization (WHO) was recently convicted by the Supreme Court of the Philippines of sterilizing at least 3 million women through the use of a vaccine intentionally contaminated with a human hormone which is necessary for reproduction in women.
By including it in vaccines, this hormone causes the body to produce antibodies to it which renders the woman unable to carry a baby although her ability to conceive is not impaired.According to WHO records, this same depopulation strategy was used in vaccines given to African women starting in 1985 to “eliminate 150 million EXCESS sub Saharan Africans [Emphasis added by me to a quote from WHO documents - REL].
It has been used via a “special” tetanus vaccine series of 5 shots generously given to poor women in South and Central America, Thailand, Africa and elsewhere. The WHO maintains that for the planet to achieve “sustainability” it must have 80-90% fewer people on it than it does today. Its vaccine fertility control task forces for the control of male and female fertility have been operating since 1974 the same year that then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger prepared Memorandum 200 for then-President Nixon stating that depopulation had to be the US first priority in Foreign Policy, beginning with [note, beginning with- REL] the third world.
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Cold and Flu Prevention
The cold and flu season is gearing up. The government doesn’t track colds, but the federal Centers for Disease Control will resume its weekly flu reporting in October.
How can you protect yourself against cold and flu viruses? You know most of these, but a reminder never hurts.

1. Wash your hands frequently and thoroughly.
Hand Washing 101: There is a trick to killing germs—and 84% don’t know it. To wash up correctly, wet your hands, lather the soap and then scrub, including between your fingers and under your nails for 15 seconds. Rinse using lukewarm—not hot—water; dry. [see note 1]
2. Avoid others who have a cold or the flu, if possible.
3. Don’t smoke, and keep away from smokers. Even passive exposure to smoke is detrimental.
4. Eat well. Good nutrition is a key to preventive health.
5. Get plenty of rest.
6. Manage stress.
7. Bolster your immune system. Next to hand washing, stress management is probably most important. Research suggests that stress makes us more susceptible to upper respiratory infections. Indeed some experts believe that stress plays a role in virtually all illnesses.

The link between stress and illness is not fully understood, but there is no doubt that stress depresses the immune system. Massage therapy is an effective stress reducer. It combats stress and anxiety by reducing the heart rate, lowering blood pressure, relaxing muscles, and promoting deeper and fuller breathing. The benefits of massage are far reaching because it affects nearly every system of the body. Deepak Chopra, M.D. says "Massage therapy has systemic effects. It influences your immune system, your endocrine system, and your cardiovascular system …"Massage is also a powerful immune booster. It enhances relaxation and the circulation of blood and lymph, all of which enhance immune function. Studies at the University of Miami’s Touch Research Institute have also shown that massage therapy can decrease levels of cortisol, a major stress hormone, and increase natural killer cells. Natural killer cells are a type of white blood cell present in the blood and lymph that can destroy virus-infected cells. Their action is non-specific, which means they can act against a wide range of viruses. [see note 2] Massage therapy may be just what the doctor ordered. Or should have!
To your health -- Kevin
Notes:
1. Sklar, Hallie L. "Wave Goodbye to Colds for Good," Fitness, January 2007, p. 72. http://www.fitnessmagazine.com/
2. Clark, Kevin S. "Colds: Is Touch the Villain?," Upper Valley Guide to Whole Health, January 2000, p. 11. Soon to be reprinted on the web.I should add that chyavanprash, an ayurvedic herbal jam, is an excellent winter tonic. High in antioxidants and immune boosting herbs, it should help keep your immune system functioning at its best. Bunny Berry said:
Yeah, I suggest boning up on all the natural anti-virals and anti-bacterials. Vitamin C, Echinacea, Collodial Silver, Grapefruit Seed Extract, Coconut Oil. And tons of hand washing. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Staying Safe from Swine Flu:
http://www.bottomlinesecrets.com/article.html?article_id=48713
On Monday, the World Health Organization raised the influenza pandemic alert to phase 4 (The alert has now been raised to Phase 5:see link above) on its "pandemic alert" scale, meaning that they have evidence that there is human-to-human transmission of the virus that is capable of leading to a sustained community outbreak. Whether or not swine flu will become a major pandemic remains unclear -- but there’s absolutely no question that everyone would benefit from measures to strengthen their immune systems to minimize the likelihood of infection.
I have written numerous times about flu prevention with regard to both the "standard" flu viruses as well as avian flu, so have pulled together the most significant and helpful information to help you protect yourself. These are good strategies at all times but especially important and relevant right now.
It’s vital to follow all the same common-sense advice we’ve ever heard about staying healthy during the annual flu season: Wash your hands often... avoid exposure to infected people... try not to touch your face, as this is a common way germs are transmitted... cover your mouth and nose with a tissue (not your hands) when you cough or sneeze... and get plenty of fresh air.
IMMUNE-BUILDING STRATEGIES
According to Daily Health News contributing editor Andrew L. Rubman, ND, there are a number of particular strategies that are helpful in boosting your immune system in order to be strong enough to fight off the assault of germs.
He is quick to point out that the real danger has less to do with exposure than with the state of your health at the moment -- being exposed to a virus doesn’t mean you absolutely will get it. Organisms are able to cause disease only when they can get past the body’s defenses. A strong immune system will help limit the duration and intensity of symptoms.
Dr. Rubman’s favorite immune boosters to fight viral infections:
Selenium: A Powerful Antioxidant
This essential trace mineral is a valuable antioxidant that prevents cell damage from free radicals. Selenium helps the immune system recognize viruses and block them from entering cells, explains Dr. Rubman. He recommends a dose of 400 micrograms (mcg) to 500 mcg a day divided into three parts -- that is about four times the usual.
Lomatium
Another potent and powerful weapon against flu is a plant called Lomatium dissectum, a member of the parsley family that grows in the northwestern US. This herb was traditionally used by Native Americans to treat upper respiratory infections and is thought to possess antimicrobial properties as well.
Specialized formulations of Lomatium are available to physicians, but consumers can purchase Lomatium - Osha throat spray (Eclectic Institute). Lomatium is most effective if used as soon as possible after a known exposure (such as a person with whom you work or attend school).
Vitamins
Supplemental vitamin C and D are both very helpful -- C in improving mucous membrane resistance, which is how the virus is most commonly transmitted, and D in reducing risk of infection (and if you do get sick, severity).
Red-Hot Chili Peppers: A Spicy, Immune-Boosting Tea
Another of Dr. Rubman’s flu-fighting favorites is a spicy tea concocted from echinacea, goldenseal, slippery elm bark and just a touch of the red-hot pepper capsicum. Echinacea, goldenseal and capsicum team up to fight off germs, while slippery elm allows the tea to coat the back of the throat, where viruses are most likely to take hold.
Here’s how to make it: At your local health-food store, purchase one-half ounce of powdered goldenseal root... one-half ounce of powdered echinacea root (not the whole plant)... two ounces of slippery elm bark powder... and one teaspoon of capsicum.
At home, put ingredients in a brown paper bag or plastic baggie, close tightly and shake. Transfer the contents to a screw-top jar. Give this jar a shake each time you use it in order to remix the ingredients.
To make the tea, pour one cup of very hot water into a mug over one-half teaspoon of the powder.
Cover and steep for five minutes. Sip up to several cups daily throughout flu season.
LAST BUT NOT LEAST...
It is important enough to repeat -- wash your hands. It’s age-old advice that remains critical. Wash hands before eating... before leaving the bathroom... and indeed, anytime they are dirty.

Source(s):
Andrew L. Rubman, ND, medical director, Southbury Clinic for Traditional Medicines, Southbury, Connecticut.

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This is a message I received from someone that I ran across on YouTube who said they have a friend who works in the gov't and know the inside story.
So for whatever it is worth. It sounds right to me (?)
Time will tell.
Kathy
This is to generate profits for the severly crippling medical supply companies. This string of flu has already been recorded and is no different that any other type of flu out in exsistance right now. "They" want to make a fuss about it because if you really look at the true picture. It should all make perfect sense if you look at key areas and step back and observe. I would say from the highest level of government there is no need to worry. What better way to direct attention from what really needs attention and bring in martial law secretly or so called quartine?? You also have to keep in mind where this started and who were the first inital reports that came to light. First off, the mexican currency is ready to collapse any week now and this is a way to divert attention in the wrong direction. The governments are buying more time to fix the fiat currencies and do more activites behind closed doors. Words of advise, 89% of government, military or economic data isn't true at all and is severly tampered with for the final result.
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On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Steve wrote:
Greetings in Christ,
From email I sent last night:
In case you missed it, the Emergency Broadcast by Alex Jones just finished but will be uploaded to his website in mp3 audio in about 10 minutes (approx. 9 PM). ESPECIALLY LISTEN to about the last 45 minutes. From evidence called in (much from Mexico) THIS IS A STAGED EVENT!!The president of Mexico announced about an hour ago that a vaccine was available!!! THIS IS NOT POSSIBLE SINCE THIS brand new strain of human & pig & bird flu with parts from many countries JUST SHOWED UP 24 HOURS AGO!!! It takes a long time to come up with a vaccine for anything!! IF THEY HAVE A VACCINE THEN THEY KNEW THIS WOULD HAPPEN A LONG TIME AGO!!! One caller mentioned that the government was GIVING AWAY FREE FLU MEDICATION for some time before this UNEXPECTED PANDEMIC began and was urging everyone to take it. LISTEN TO THIS AUDIO!!
Direct link to the audio:
http://freespeech.vo.llnwd.net/o25/pub/media/20090425_Sat_SpecialReportSwineFlu_Alex.mp3
Or you can listen online using the embedded player (far right-hand side, close to the top) This is a 74 Megabyte file so it easier to download it and play it back in WinAmp ( http://www.winamp.com/player ) and skip ahead to the last 45 minutes where the wrapup and important callers are heard.
Alex is again giving a special report on the Mexico pandemic at 4PM CST today- go to http://www.infowars.com/ the link is on the far right hand side of the page and close to the top where it says listen to the 'Sunday Edition'. I did figure out how to upload a file and I have put the 'Secret Massive movement of contagious biologicals in the U. S.' mp3 file up on the Group file page for those who can't watch the YouTube video. I haven't seen the audio link to Dr. Deagles radio show on Friday about the pandemic being manmade, giving technical details etc., in case you lost it here it is:http://www.twowitnesses.us/dr_bill_deagle_04_24.MP3
In Christ, brother Ron.
Taken from this excellent yahoo group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Watchmen-on-the-wall/
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Kinda Funny that they already had the cure Stockpiled? "Roche Pharmaceuticals said Sunday it stands ready to deliver 3 million doses of flu treatment Tamiflu to the World Health Organization, which is grappling with outbreaks of swine flu." Tamiflu is the drug they've been stockpiling and are now taking advantage of this deliberate marketing of a BOGUS "deadly global epidemic." Tamiflu has caused liver damage, deaths, and "can cause people to inflict injury upon themselves and experience dementia."Check out this Rumsfeld connection:"The Rumsfeld history starts in 1976, when a military recruit in New Jersey died from a flu that experts speculated might be the "swine flu" virus of 1918 pandemic fame. As Sargent tells it, Rumsfeld, who was then and is again the nation's secretary of defense, made the imminent "swine flu" a political issue to add some spark to the campaign of President Ford, an interim leader without a cause. At Rumsfeld's urging, the administration would ensure that "every man, woman and child" was vaccinated. Huge amounts of vaccine were produced and distributed quickly."-- Lisa Parsons
http://www.whale.to/a/swine_fluq.html
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http://www.whale.to/a/rumsfeld.html
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"What's Worse, the flu or the FDA?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAYTcL_nWqc
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Swine Flu Vaccination Propaganda from 1976
http://www.youtube.com/watchv=i3YCTnbRgm8
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Swine Flu Probe Widens as Mexico Finds Lung Illness (Update1) By Jason GaleApril 23 (Bloomberg) --
An urgent probe into an unusual flu outbreak that's infected seven people in the U.S. was widened after Mexico sought assistance to investigate more than 130 cases of severe respiratory disease that may be related.Authorities in Mexico asked the Public Health Agency of Canada to help identify the cause of the lung illness linked to 20 deaths, including two in the state of Baja California Norte, which borders California. The Mexican cases include five health- care workers, the Ottawa-based agency said in an e-mail today.
Tests in Mexico found patients were infected with H1N1 and type-B influenza strains and the parainfluenza virus, the agency said. In the U.S., doctors discovered a new strain of H1N1 swine influenza in patients in San Diego County and Imperial County, California, and in San Antonio, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta said today."It will be critical to determine whether or not the strains of H1N1 isolated from patients in Mexico are also swine flu," Donald Low, an infectious diseases specialist at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital, told the Canadian Press.Canada's National Microbiology Lab received 51 specimens from Mexico yesterday and will be testing them for a range of pathogens, the public health agency said.

Thirteen fatal cases of severe respiratory illness were reported in Mexico City, four in San Luis Potosi, a city north of the capital, and another in Oaxaca city in the south. Most cases occurred in southern and central Mexico in previously healthy adults aged 25 to 44 years old.Fever, Headache Symptoms include high fever, headache, eye pain, shortness of breath and extreme fatigue with rapid progression of symptoms to severe respiratory distress in about five days, the Canadian agency said. A "high proportion" of cases require mechanical respirators, it said.
In contrast, the four males and three females diagnosed with swine flu in the U.S. have had mild flu-like symptoms. The patients, aged 9 to 54 years, began feeling unwell from March 28 to April 19. All have recovered and only one was hospitalized briefly, according to the CDC.Preliminary analyses of the virus indicate it contains four different gene components representing both North American swine and avian influenza, human flu and a European/Asian swine flu."We have determined that this virus is contagious and is spreading from human to human," the CDC said in a statement on its Web site. "We have not determined how easily the virus spreads between people."Swine influenza is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type-A influenza that regularly causes outbreaks among the animals, according to the CDC. Swine flu doesn't normally infect people, though human infections do occur and cases of human-to- human spread of swine flu viruses have been documented.`Reassortment' Risk Infection in pigs is regarded as especially problematic because of the risk of "reassortment" to produce a new virus, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said in a statement.
There is even a risk of a pandemic strain either in pigs or in a person infected with both a human and pig strain, the center said yesterday."The infection of humans with a novel influenza A virus infection of animal origins as has happened here is of concern because of the risk, albeit small, that this could represent the appearance of viruses with pandemic potential," the ECDC said.Global flu contagions start when a novel influenza type-A virus, to which almost no one has natural immunity, emerges and begins spreading.
Experts believe that the so-called 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, which may have killed as many as 50 million people, began when an avian flu virus jumped to people.To contact the reporter on this story: Jason Gale in Singapore at j.gale@bloomberg.net
Last Updated: April 24, 2009 00:25 EDT
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601124&sid=azAqR4.k2qEY&refer=home
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Hi  friends,
This is an important commentary from the leader of the NVIC (National Vaccine Information Center. Their website is www.nvic.org Please listen to this so you can be an informed person and share with others. Since our media is completely controlled by large corps now, it is up to us to inform ourselves.
http://www.nvic.org/NVIC-Vaccine-New...d-Vaccine.aspx
Why the H1N1 Vaccines should be avoided, they shot up our military and most that got the shots are very sick and dying!!!!
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http://www.thegadflyblog.com/2009/09/navy-qua-guinea-pigs-infected-with-h1n1-because-of-vaccine.html
Are doctors and researchers being intimidated into silence about the dangers of the swine flu vaccine?
 That's the question I ask in today's feature story which reveals that drug maker Merck had a "hit list" of doctors that were targeted to be "neutralized." Read the startling text from Merck's own internal emails here:
http://www.naturalnews.com/027116_Merck_doctors_vaccines.html
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http://www.cureswineflunow.com/Conspiracy
Without a vaccine, what can YOU do to protect yourself from the swine flu virus?I urge you to watch the 7-minute video titled "The Swine Flu Virus Cure They Don't Want You to Know About" at  http://tinyurl.com/RXforSwineFlu999.
There's a natural, scientifically proven method for creating an environment in the body which is uninhabitable by the swine flu virus, as well as other disease micro-organisms, germs and bacteria. It involves a natural oxygenating substance that makes your body immune to swine flu and virtually all diseases. 
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Here is the link for the 1979 CBS 60 Minutes episode concerning the 1976 swine flu pandemic scam, the mass inoculations that followed, and the 4,000 lawsuits from people who suffered neurological harm from the vaccine. Apparently this episode was banned after its first showing on television. It is now being released publicly on the internet for the first time, after 20 years. This clip includes government swine flu propaganda commercials produced and aired in 1976.
http://loveforlife.com.au/node/%206636
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Beginning of Engineered Pandemic? 2,000 Infected with H1N1 at Washington University
http://www.prisonplanet.com/beginning-of-engineered-pandemic-2000-infected-with-h1n1-at-washington-university.html
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Order Out Of Chaos Slide During Swine Flu Conference
http://www.prisonplanet.com/order-out-of-chaos-slide-during-swine-flu-conference.html
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The great thimerosal cover-up: Mercury, vaccines, autism and your child's health
http://www.naturalnews.com/011764_mercury_thimerosal_vaccines.html
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Evelyn Pringle's swine flu profiteering series continues today with part five:
http://www.naturalnews.com/027363_autism_vaccines_swine_flu.html
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  While the vaccine makers continue to suffer from "production failures" (causing a short supply of the vaccines), there's increasing evidence that the swine flu has already fizzled out. But the CDC and WHO are (predictably) going to keep pushing the vaccines anyway. Why? Because now they have to figure out a way to get rid of all the vaccines! Read more in today's feature story:
http://www.naturalnews.com/027347_vaccines_swine_flu_H1N1.html
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A National Emergency, under the Stafford Act: GOOD-BYE BILL OF RIGHTS and HELLO MANDATORY VACCINATIONS
http://labvirus.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/a-national-emergency-under-the-stafford-act-what-it-means/
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http://www.rense. com/general85/ vacc.htm
Do Not Take A Swine Flu Vaccine! From Patricia Doyle, PhD4-25-9
  I am making a plea to everyone who reads this, please, please DO NOT TAKE ANY VACCINE THAT IS PURPORTED TO 'PREVENT' THIS FLU.
Remember 1976 and the so called Swine Flu outbreak that was purported to be a coming pandemic? It only infected recruits at Ft. Dix. Why? Because I believe that the so called Swine Flu virus infected the recruits due to the vaccines they were given.
Whether the government developed the Swine Flu 1976 virus and infected the recruits as a means to test the public to see if people would comply with a call to take vaccination against Swine Flu, or the recruits became infected via contaminated vaccine they were given as part of the recruit regimen, that outbreak was as phony as they come.
I was one of the people duped into taking a Swine Flu shot and it made me so sick. I was sick in bed for three months after taking the vaccine.
Do not take seasonal flu vaccine if you are told that it could help prevent this brand new Swine Flu variant. It won't do a thing to prevent this flu. What it will do is serve up new genetic material to the Swine Flu virus that I have dubbed Spanish Flu 2, the Sequel.
The Spanish Flu variant will use the gene sequences in the vaccine in humans to develop more of the changes that make the virus more readily infect humans. We do not want to give this virus more human genetic material so that it will infect humans more readily person to person. This is what vaccinated individuals do for pandemic strains.
 There is also a safety issue in any experimental vaccine, much like the one in 1976. Some people even feel that such a vaccine for pandemic strain might require more than one vaccination which could actually be a binary set up. The first shot might just add some genetic code that stays dormant in the body until one gets the second vaccine shot which then serves to only cause infection. It could trigger Guillain-barre syndrome, Typhus or some other condition.
 An Influenza vaccine does not protect or prevent a person from contracting flu. It is purported to, maybe, prevent some complications of flu and maybe shorten duration. I am not even sure it does that. Personally, I feel the vaccine weakens our immune system and also sickens us due to contaminants in the vaccine.
I feel that people can better protect themselves by washing hands often and thoroughly. People should also use protective gloves when out and about during epidemics. Don't be afraid of "looking odd." I would not be ashamed to use a mask and gloves. I see that the Mexicans are using them.
A big problem during a pandemic is that these simple supplies will become extremely scarce awfully quickly. Stock up now. Medical supplies. personal hygene supplies and don't forget fido, or any other pet. Once a pandemic hits, it will be too late to stock up. Water, too.
We may lose clean water and electric power, so be prepared.
So, please, people, DON'T TAKE ANY VACCINES OFFERED. THEY COULD KILL YOU BEFORE ANY VIRUS KILLS YOU.
Pat Doyle
Patricia A. Doyle DVM, PhD Bus Admin, Tropical Agricultural Economics Univ of West Indies. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Another good link, followed by some info for Christians (or seekers of truth) & a note for my fellow Christians (in purple, at the bottom):
They will shortly be announcing mandatory vaccines containing who knows what, for all citizens of the USA.........just my opinion. Good way for them to get chips or whatever the choose in everyone......sorry but I do not believe this "scare" for one minute. I remember the whole debacle of 1973 with the swine flu scare.....I don't fall for the same scam twice.
http://www.organicconsumers.org/flu.cfm
NOTE: In connection to the above link, these articles (below) explain why homeopathy is not for Christians:
Homeopathy Taken from here: (Scroll down to homeopathy") http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/Psychology/newmed.htm
Definition: Homeopathy is a system of diagnosis and treatment based on the principle of "like cures like" -- that the same substance causing symptoms in a healthy person will cure those symptoms in a sick person.
Founder: Samuel Hahnermann
How Does it Claim to Work?: Homeopathy claims to work by correcting an imbalance or problem in the body's "vital force" or life energy that is currently or will later be manifesting as disease. By an almost ritual process of diluting and shaking, substances supposedly become powerful energy medicines which, in turn, either stimulate the immune system or correct problems in the supposed vital force of the body, thereby curing the illness.
Scientific Evaluation: Discredited.
Occultic Potential: Psychic healing, spiritism, astrology, and other occult philosophies; use of pendulums, radionic instruments, and other occult devices.
Major Problem(s): Homeopathic diagnosis is ineffective; homeopathic medicines are so diluted they cannot possibly exert a physical effect (without a spirituistic influence).
Biblical/Christian Evaluation: Any system of medicine that is quackery or occultic should be avoided.
Potential Dangers: Incorrect and/or harmful diagnosis and treatment; occultic influences.
http://solascriptura-tt.org/Seitas/HolisticHealthHomeopathyTherapeuticTouch-Ankberg.htm
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http://www.apologeticsindex.org/h19.html (With links to other informative articles at the bottom)
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Taken from here: "Alternative Medicine in the Church" http://www.watchman.org/na/altmed2.htm
Homeopathic remedies have found renewed favor among Christians who see them as non-toxic medicine which gets to the "real" root of the problem - a supposed energy imbalance. Christians ignore the real source of the supposed power of homeopathy - an unmeasurable, undefined (no one says exactly what it is) mystical "energy." This energy is magically released by vigorous shaking between each of the numerous dilutions. No shaking, no power. Each solution (some so highly diluted that they contain virtually nothing but the base solution of alcohol or water) is matched to the perceived energy imbalance manifested by the personality of the patient.
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http://books.google.com/books?id=95RQkiCxTGEC&pg=PA207&lpg=PA207&dq=spiritual+dangers+of+homeopathy&source=bl&ots=r0xUF4Tc_R&sig=Sz9pn8z4qdbVqbmaaN1bqnHOCNU&hl=en&ei=tnylSreuDoGasgOCtviMDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2#v=onepage&q=spiritual%20dangers%20of%20homeopathy&f=false

One more note from the blog owner:
As a Christian, I don't have peace about sharing links that contain some good info, while promoting practices that Bible believers should not be partaking in without a clear warning.
Yes, I'm well-aware that there are some Christians who use as well as promote homeopathy, please don't send me those links, I've researched this thoroughly, & have peace about rejecting it as a potentially spiritually dangerous practice. To me, a measure of whether something is ok for Christians is not whether it works or not, knowing that the enemy of our souls is quite capable of 'miracles', not to mention strong deception. As the Word of God warns, "Satan comes as an angel of light, & his workers as ministers of righteousness." 
The only true test for me to decide on these issues is whether it's rooted in truth, or whether it contradicts His Word or His ways in any shape or form. 
I hope if you are currently considering or using homeopathy, you will check out these links first, & pray for wisdom, discernment, & His guidance.
Bless you in your commitment to truth & holiness,
~Anastazia~
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NATURAL TREATMENTS FOR SWINE FLU:
Herbal Medicine and Supplements:
Strong dietary and vitamin supplements like vitamin C, vitamin D, etc. and certain probity’s can be useful in the treatment and prevention of h1n1. The Herbal remedies make stronger the immune system, to fight against the viruses and organisms causing swine flu.

Swine flu Home Remedies and several natural methods to treat these swine symptoms that can be successful in relieving H1N1 symptoms, along with the organic remedies for H1n1:
- A mixture of 1 tbsp of honey with 1/2 tbsp cinnamon powder can be consumed. This relieves h1N1 symptoms like cold, nasal congestion and sore throat.
- Steam inhalation with basil leaves added to the water, it helpful in relieving h1n1 symptoms & relieving lung congestion.
- Chewing fresh garlic cloves: Another effective home medicine as garlic, Good antiviral.
- Consuming lemon tea: Relieve symptoms like cough, headaches, etc.
  H1N1 can be treated effectively using the above mentioned herbs and remedies, and is a healthier choice compared to the treatment with allopathic medicines and antiviral.
H1n1 prevention naturally is the best medicine to stop the rapid spread of h1N1.
-Regularly ventilated area, do wet cleaning, wash your hands frequently.
- Strengthen your immune system, more often outdoors, move more.
- Before going out into the street or in public places cover nose - it has antiviral activity against flu.
- Try to avoid communication with ill individuals. If this is unavoidable, wear respirators or gauze dressing.- After working with raw meat, Wash your hands carefully. Do not eat raw or half-meat. Porcine flu germ, like any germ is destroyed at a temperature of 65 degrees. Disinfectants kill him instantly.
- If you did not want a influenza shot, you can raise your immunity with special preparations. Usually onion and garlic increase the protective forces of an organism.
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Info here on natural tratments...taken from here: {important exerpts below}
http://www.articlesbase.com/alternative-medicine-articles/swine-flu-alternative-medicine-solutions-1015039.html
St Johns Worth & Goldenseal NOT Echinacea.
Many people might be reaching for the herbal remedy called Echinacea to treat their swine flu or prevent it by boosting the immune system. Stop. In swine flu treatment Echinacea will cause the production of cytokines which will further damage your body.
The best herbs to use during this flu are: St Johns Worth which is a potent antiviral as well as a famous antidepressant. The herbs adaptogenic qualities may help the body adapt to the cytokine storm making it have less an impact.
Turmeric, the spice, has an ability to be more powerful the pharmaceutical cox-2 inhibitors. Turmeric works in swine flu by blocking the production of cytokines. One herb I have been personally using over the past few years is Goldenseal which reduces colds and flu’s symptoms quite dramatically. Very little is written about it. Garlic is essential to include in your diet and has an affinity for the lungs as a herb. This can assist in blocking the development of pneumonia and reduce any lung infection by taking at least one clove mashed a day. Parsley will reduce the odour if you need it.
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The Cytokene Storm – Damage Control The cytokine storm that is created by the body in response to the swine flu is caused by the swine flu being unaffected by the body’s immune response. This causes an over production of cytokines ( TFN-a and IL-6) by the body. This is what killed many people during the Spanish flu in 1918 in the USA. Foods such as; honey, chocolate, spirulena algae and particularly elderberry need to be avoided as they increase the production of cytokines in the body. Try and drink lots of apple, lemon and cranberry juice who have all shown an ability to decrease cytokine production in the body. . Cut out all mucous forming especially diary foods as the respiratory system is the virus breeding ground.
So it’s not just the virus you have to watch out for it’s actually the cytokine storm. The more people that become aware of this the better for both its treatment and outcomes. (Much more info at site, except it promotes homeopathy which is not for Christians, based on the roots/theories behind it.)
Taken from: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1703397/natural_treatment_of_swine_flu_h1n1_pg2_pg2.html?cat=68
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What to Do If Your Pharmacy is Out of Tamiflu:
What if you actually need it? According to The Green Pharmacy Herbal Handbook, several natural supplements have been shown to have antiviral activity. With Tamiflu or Relenza, you have to wait until you know you are sick. These natural supplements can be taken upon exposure or perhaps as a preventative. All of these supplements should be available at your local health food or vitamin store. Some can even be found at your local drugstore, grocery store or large discount stores such as Target and Walmart.
Elderberry extract, also known as Sambucol - contains a component called antivirin which reportedly blocks the virus from entering cells and has been proven effective in flu outbreaks (I've heard this is the BEST, most effective one ever! ~Anastazia~)
Oreganol/Oil of Oregano - has been shown to be a powerful antiviral and effective against the "bird flu" (This is really powerful, too, but expensive! ~A~)
Ginger - reportedly contains over a dozen antiviral components and shows antinflammatory and may help to reduce fever
Garlic - has many sulfur compounds which have shown to be antiviral, antifungal and antibiotic
Shiitake mushroom - long known for infection prevention in Asia, believed to boost natural interferon to inhibit viral activity...And finally, the old standby:
Vitamin C/Ascorbic Acid - long known for boosting the immune system, laboratory tests show high doses are useful for preventing viral infections.
One interesting note, Echinacea and Goldenseal (which are usually recommended as "immune boosters" for the common cold) are NOT recommended for the swine flu because of the possibility of pushing the body's natural immune system response too fast resulting in an increased risk of hemorrhagic fever - which is believed to be a primary cause of death from the current "Swine Flu".
Obviously good hygiene is essential, hand washing, hand sanitization, avoiding crowded public places and taking general care of one's self. One should always get plenty of rest, eat appropriately and stay hydrated to help ensure you are in good health especially if you are likely you be exposed to illness.
Sources:
United States Department of Agriculture: Agricultural Research Service, Progress In Reverse Against New Swine Flu Strain
Center for Disease Control (CDC), Antiviral Drugs and H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu)
MotherNature.com: The Green Pharmacy Herbal Handbook, Antiviral Drugs
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Natural Flu Prevention and Remedies, Taken from here:  http://www.motherearthnews.com/Natural-Health/Flu-Virus-Symptoms-Vaccine-Treatment.aspx?page=2
Healthy lifestyle choices can keep your immune system in fighting shape. Sleep deprivation, stress, smoking, malnutrition, drugs and alcohol excess all undermine immunity. Conversely, a healthy diet, adequate sleep, regular exercise and relaxation improve immune health.
 Some herbs have antiviral activity, including against some influenza strains. The list includes ginger, licorice and garlic (use it raw in food). Two small studies have shown that a proprietary elderberry syrup (Sambucol) shortens the duration and severity of influenza.
Immune-enhancing herbs such as ginseng and eleuthero (Siberian ginseng) have been shown to help prevent viral respiratory infections, including the flu. One study found that giving ginseng a few days before the flu vaccine boosted the subsequent immune response. The Chinese herb astragalus also acts as an immune tonic. Taken in adequate dosages, echinacea and andrographis have both been shown to curtail upper respiratory infections. Whether any of these herbs can help counter H1N1 flu is unknown.
Vitamin D and the Flu
Vitamin D plays a role in many bodily processes, including immune function. Some scientists have pointed to a correlation between wintertime troughs in vitamin D intake and respiratory viral infections. New research published this year in the Archives of Internal Medicine linked low blood levels of vitamin D with a heightened risk of upper respiratory infections, particularly among people with chronic lung conditions. No studies have yet determined whether supplementing with vitamin D can prevent the common cold, much less influenza. Because few foods provide vitamin D, many experts recommend supplementation with at least 1,000 IU a day of vitamin D — several times the current guidelines for 200 to 600 IU.
The antiviral medications Tamiflu (oseltamivir), which is derived from Chinese star anise, and Relenza (zanamivir) may make flu symptoms milder. Most experts recommend these medications be reserved to prevent disease in people at high risk for complications (in the face of suspected exposure) and to treat people who develop severe flu symptoms. (Overuse of these medications can lead to viruses becoming resistant to their effects.)
Anyone under the age of 18 should avoid aspirin, which, when taken during a viral illness, can lead to a serious condition called Reye’s syndrome, a rare disease characterized by neurological disorders, brain swelling and enlargement of the liver.
When to Get Medical Treatment for the Flu:
Seek medical attention if you develop signs of severe illness: shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, chest or abdominal pain, dizziness, confusion, or severe vomiting. Signs that a child needs immediate care include rapid breathing, poor fluid intake, extreme irritability and lethargy (the child is difficult to wake and won’t interact).
Flu Information References and Additional Information
For more information about seasonal and H1N1 flu, see the CDC's flu information page.
Abascal, Kathy. Herbs & Influenza: How herbs used in the 1918 flu pandemic can be effective today. Tigana Press, 2006.
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Taken from: http://www.naturesnexus.org/topics/treatments/alternative-news/104-general/230-2009-swine-flu-h1n1-influenza-outbreak-natural-treatment-and-prevention.html


Protect yourself with natural antiviral remedies
Antiviral Herbs
 The following is a list of natural herbal anti-virals. Although the drugs are said to be effective and authorities are currently looking at developing a vaccine, it is known that viruses have an ability to mutate and drug resistance can develop. While not meaning to be a scaremonger, as a naturopath I would strongly advise being self prepared in the event of a global apndemic. The following remedies are readily available and can be added to the home first aid kit and can be taken to improve natural immunity to prevent infection. Of course, these have not been tested directly on the swine flu however, evidence is strong of the nature of their anti-viral and anti-microbial activity therefore making them appropriate to treat and prevent viral infections. Natural medicine is designed to empower people with the ability to prevent disease and act proactively rather than reactively. The anti-microbial activity relates to the anti-biotic effects that the herbs have and are particularly useful to treat secondary pneumonias associated with swine flu.
(I left these in their article, but Echinacea & Golden Seal are NOT recommended for swine flu, for reasons noted in the above articles...~Anastazia~)
Goldenseal (Hydrastis canadensis)
Golden seal contains a high content of isoquinoline alkaloids, of which berberine is the most widely studied. Although not as potent as some prescription antibiotics, berberine exhibits a broad spectrum of antibiotic activity. It has also shown activity against protozoa and fungi.28 29 30 In relation to Golden seals’s anti-viral activity, the anti-human cyto megalus virus activity of berberine was compared to the anti-viral drug, ganciclovir (GCV). The mechanism of action by which 1 inhibits the replication of HCMV is presumed to be different from that of GCV; being that berberine compounds interfere with intracellular events after virus penetration into the host cells and before viral DNA synthesis.31 Antimicrobial activity increases with pH in all organisms studied. There for a 32 Alkalinisation will improve its clinical efficacy particularly in the treatment of urinary tract infections. Berberine has also been shown to activate macrophages.33 Usual dose is 250-500 mg/day (8-12% alkaloid content). Berberine is generally non-toxic at recommended doses, but it is not recommended for use during pregnancy, and it can decrease B vitamin absorption. It may interfere with H-2 antagonists, proton pump inhibitors, antihypertensives, barbiturates and sedatives, and heparin.34 35
Echinacea (Echinacea angustifolia or purpurea)
Echinacea may boost the immune defenses in various ways. It contains three compounds with specific antiviral activity: caffeic acid, chicoric acid, and echinacin. It strengthens the body's local defences by use of a substance, echinacein, that deactivates germs' tissue-dissolving enzyme. This prevents germs from spreading and infecting other body tissues. In one study, echinacea stimulated production of white blood cells and phagocytes, and increased macrophage germ-killing activity. A University of Munich study demonstrated that echinacea boosted production of infection-fighting T-lymphocytes up to 30% more than standard immune-supportive drugs.36 In Germany echinacea is used to treat flu, colds, bronchitis, tonsillitis, ear infections and whooping cough. Root extracts of echinacea are believed to boost interferon levels, vital to the body's defences.
Echinacea has been the subject of over 200 scientific studies.37 38 Echinacea is the most widely recommended herb for infectious conditions despite the fact that the direct activity of Echinacea as an antibacterial is quite mild. Its main effect appears to be immunostimulatory; activating the alternative complement pathway, promoting chemotaxis of neutrophils, monocytes, and eosinophils, enhancing macrophage phagocytosis and stimulation of production of TNF, interferon, and interleukin-1. 39 40 41 TNF is our bodies own natural anti-viral. The herb also possesses antiviral activity due to inhibition of hyaluronidases.42 hyaluronidase lowers the viscosity of hyaluronic acid, a major constituent of the interstitial barrier, thereby increasing tissue permeability. It is, therefore, used in medicine in conjunction with other drugs in order to speed their dispersion and delivery. It has been shown to decrease symptoms and length of sickness in patients experiencing the common cold.43 Echinacea has also been shown to accentuate the topical antimycotic agent (econazol nitrate) decreasing recurrence of C. albicans from 60.5% to 5-16.7%.4
The usual dose is 900 mg/day of 3.5% echinacoside. Caution is indicated in patients with HIV because of potential stimulation of viral replication. The literature on Echinacea has been reviewed by the Cochrane Collaboration. The reviewers concluded that the majority of available studies report positive results.45
St. John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum)
St John’s wort has received national attention as an herbal anti-depressant. Surprisingly, it is most effective as an anti-vial and anti-bacterial. In vitro studies have shown that the two major compounds (hypericin and pseudohypericin) exhibit strong antiviral activity against HSV I and II as well as influenza types A and B, vesicular stomatitis virus and remarkable antiviral activity against Epstein-Barr virus. 46 47 St. John's Wort also have broad spectrum antimicrobial activity against both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria including Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus mutans, Proteus vulgaris, E. coli, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. 48Research suggests that Hypericum may be a useful adjunctive treatment for herpes simplex, mononucleosis, and influenza, and because of its antidepressant and anti-EBV activity, a promising treatment for fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue. Several studies show effectiveness of Hypericum against HIV. 49 50 51 While hypericin has been shown to be effective in inactivating enveloped viruses, such as hepatitis B and C, and cytomegalovirus, it has not been effective against non-enveloped viruses, such as hepatitis A, or parvovirus B-19.
St. John's Wort has a historical use as an topical aid to wound healing. Research has demonstrated antibacterial and wound healing activity. 52 The usual oral dose of Hypericum standardized to 0.3% hypericin is 300 mg three times a day. There are many potential drug interactions, including: sedative-hypnotics, 5-HT antagonists, cyclosporine, digoxin, nefazodone, NNRTI's, tricyclic antidepressants, photosensitizing drugs, protease inhibitors, theophylline, and coumadin. Hypericum is metabolized by the cytochrome P-450 system and caution should be used with any drugs using the same metabolic pathway.
Licorice root (Glychrrhiza glabra)
Licorice has, as its major active component a triterpenoid saponin, glycyrrhizic acid. Intestinal flora hydrolyzes glycyrrhizin yielding the aglycone molecule (glycyrrhentinic acid) and a sugar moiety, resulting in absorption of both. 53 Both glycyrrhizin and glycyrrhentinic acid have been shown to induce interferon, a natural anti-viral This leads to significant antiviral activity. 54 Licorice root has been shown to directly inhibit the growth of several DNA and RNA viruses in cell cultures (vaccinia, herpes simplex, Newcastle disease, vesicular stomatitis virus) and to irreversibly inactivate HSV I55. The herb also shows antimicrobial activity in vitro against Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus mutans, Mycobacterium, and Candida albicans.56 Licorice compounds are showing promise in the treatment of HIV related diseases and chronic Hepatitis B (40% of patients will have complete resolution).57 58 Topical preparations have been shown to reduce the healing time and pain associated with cold sores, apthous ulcers, and genital herpes. 59 60 Caution is recommended when used with drugs that can deplete potassium, stimulant laxatives, and herbs with anticoagulant/antiplatelet properties, including: aspirin and other NSAID's, corticosteroids, cardiac glycosides, loop diuretics, hormones (estrogen-like), insulin, MAOI's and interferon. The use of deglycyrrhizinated licorice (DGL) is recommended because of comparable efficacy but reduced side-effects. Usual dose of standardized 4% extract is 250-500 mg/day.
Other herbs exist which show definite but more limited antimicrobial activity.
One such example is Uva ursi (bearberry, upland cranberry), which is especially active against E. coli and can be used in the acute treatment and prevention of recurrent cystitis. It is also active against C. albicans and S. aureus. The usual dose of extract standardized to 10% arbutin is 250-500 mg/day.61
Garlic Alium sativa
Garlic has long been considered as a natural remedy against a range of humanillnesses, including various bacterial, viral and fungal infections. This kind of antibiotic activity of garlic has mostly been associated with the thiosulfinate allicin. Even so, recent studies have pointed towards a significant biological activity of trisulfides and tetrasulfides found in various Allium species, including a wide range of antibiotic properties and the ability of polysulfides to cause the death of certain cancer cells. The chemistry underlying the biological activity of these polysulfides is currently emerging. It seems to include a combination of several distinct transformations, such as oxidation reactions, superoxide radical and peroxide generation, decomposition with release of highly electrophilic S(x) species, inhibition of metalloenzymes, disturbance of metal homeostasis and membrane integrity and interference with different cellular signalling pathways. Further research in this area is required to provide a better understanding of polysulfide reactions within a biochemical context. This knowledge may ultimately form the basis for the development of 'green' antibiotics, fungicides and possibly anticancer agents with dramatically reduced side effects in humans.62
Allicin, one of tactive principles of freshly crushed garlic homogenates, has a variety of antimicrobial activities. Allicin in its pure form was found to exhibit i) antibacterial activity against a wide range of Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria, including multidrug-resistant enterotoxicogenic strains of Escherichia coli; ii) antifungal activity, particularly against Candida albicans; iii) antiparasitic activity, including some major human intestinal protozoan parasites such as Entamoeba histolytica and Giardia lamblia; and iv) antiviral activity. The main antimicrobial effect of allicin is due to its chemical reaction with thiol groups of various enzymes, e.g. alcohol dehydrogenase, thioredoxin reductase, and RNA polymerase, which can affect essential metabolism of cysteine proteinase activity involved in the virulence of E. histolytica. 63
Andrographus Andrographis paniculata
The leaves of Andrographis paniculata, an annual herb, have been used widely as part of Indian folk medicine and Ayurveda for centuries. The Chinese and Thai herbal medicine systems have also incorporated this herb, valued mostly for its "bitter" properties as a treatment for digestive problems and a variety of febrile illnesses. More recently, this herb, in its standardized extract form, has become popular in Scandinavia as a remedy for upper respiratory infection (URI) and influenza. For example, a 300 milligram Kan Jang tablet containing 4% andrographolides has been recommended to be taken four times daily for cold treatment (for a total daily dose of 48 milligrams andrographolides). Lower doses have been evaluated for respiratory infection prevention; for example, a single 200-300 milligram standardized tablet taken daily. Use appears to be safe for up to two weeks. Higher doses may be unsafe, leading to significant side effects. Kulichenko et al. carried out two randomized parallel-group trials of the SHA-10 extract of andrographis (Kan Jang, Swedish Herbal Institute) in adults diagnosed with influenza. Both studies found significant improvements in reduction of duration of influenza symptoms (1-2.5 days sooner, depending on particular symptom, p< 0.01). Although the study suffers from a poorly described randomization procedure and a lack of a standardized outcome measure for symptoms, it does seem to provide preliminary evidence that andrographis extract may be effective not only for standard URI treatment but also specifically for influenza treatment.
Astragalus
Astragalus is an extremely versatile herb which may act as an immune strengthener. It is a commonly used herb in traditional Chinese medicine and is used as a component of many immune-supporting formulas, whether prepared as a sliced and boiled herb in food preparations, in extracts, or in capsules. The IL-2 inducing activity of the triterpene saponins found in astragalus might be the mechanism involved in the immunomodulatory and anticancer effects of astragalus species.
Elderberry
Elderberry has been used has been used as a remedy for flu, cough, colds, and upper respiratory infections for over 2500 years. Recent studies demonstrate black elderberry's effectiveness against all strains of influenza virus. A constituent present in black elderberry (with actions similar to neuraminidase inhibitors oseltamivir and zanamivir) prevents the spread of virions from infected cells to new cells.
Forsythia ( Forsythia suspensa )
Forsythia is a traditional Chinese herb used for treating colds, flu, and other viruses. It is often mixed with honeysuckle and sometimes lemon balm and/or ginger as a tea.
Honeysuckle ( Lonicera japonica )
Often used in China to treat bacterial and viral conditions. It is taken as a liquid from flower extracts or as a tea.
Grape seed extract (GSE)
GSE is a general antimicrobial agent with specific antiviral properties. It is best known for its application against Candida albicans, an organism responsible for fungal infections. Flavonoids and related polyphenols, in addition to their cardioprotective, anti-tumor, anti-inflammatory, anti-carcinogenic and anti-allergic activities, also possess promising anti-HIV effects. Recent studies documented that the beta-chemokine receptors, CCR2b, CCR3 and CCR5, and the alpha-chemokine receptors, CXCR1, CXCR2 and CXCR4 serve as entry coreceptors for HIV-1. Although flavonoids and polyphenolic compounds elicit anti-HIV effects such as inhibition of HIV-1 expression and virus replication, the molecular mechanisms underlying these effects remain to be clearly elucidated. 64Although not proven by scientific research, it may be effective against a long list of other microorganisms as well, including herpes simplex type 1 virus, and influenza A virus. GSE may be used in liquid concentrate form or in capsules. GSE may be taken internally, in minute doses such as 2 to 4 drops twice daily diluted in at least 4 ounces of carrot, orange, pineapple or grapefruit juice.
Green tea
Certain constituents called catechins found in green tea have been studied for their ability to inhibit influenza virus replication and their direct virucidal effects. One study evaluated polyphenolic compound catechins ((-)-epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), (-)-epicatechin gallate (ECG) and (-)-epigallocatechin (EGC)) from green tea for their ability to inhibit influenza virus replication in cell culture and for potential direct virucidal effect. Among the test compounds, the EGCG and ECG were found to be potent inhibitors of influenza virus replication. It has been suggested that the antiviral effect of catechins on influenza virus is mediated not only by specific interaction with HA, but via alteration of the physical properties of the viral membrane.
Indigowoad Root Isatidis ( Isatis tinctora )
 (Chinese: 板藍根 pinyin: bǎn lán gēn) is a Traditional Chinese Medicine herb that comes from the roots of woad, but often incorrectly listed under the synonymic name, Isatis indigotica. It is also known as Radix isatidis. The dried root is then processed into granules, which are most commonly consumed dissolved in hot water or tea. The product, called Banlangen Keli, is very popular throughout China, and used to remove toxic heat, soothe sore throat and to treat influenza, measles, mumps, syphilis, or scarlet fever. It is also used for pharyngitis, laryngitis, erysipelas, and carbuncle, and to prevent hepatitis A, epidemic meningitis, cancer and inflammation. Possible minor side effects include allergic reactions and dizziness; only large dosages or long term usage can be toxic to the kidneys. These treatments have not generally been evaluated clinically. Banlangen was used during the SARS epidemic in China.
  This herb is one of the best-known traditional Chinese medicine antiviral herbs. Isatidis may be a remedy for any virus but appears to be especially good for hepatitis, because it helps reduce both swelling and liver inflammation. Isatidis is mild and can be used in children or those who do not tolerate heat well. Isatidis may also be a good anti-bacterial agent.
  Recently, scientists have discovered woad might be used to prevent cancer, having more than 20 times the amount of glucobrassicin contained in broccoli.65 Young leaves when damaged can produce more glucobrassicin, up to 65 times as much.6
Licorice root
Licorice root has been used to prevent and remedy infections, fevers and inflammation. It has broad antimicrobial activity against viruses, bacteria, yeast and fungi. Licorice contains at least eight antiviral and 25 antifungal substances. Licorice also possesses antiviral compounds that promote interferon release.
Olive leaf ( Olea europea )
This herb has general antimicrobial and antiviral properties. It usually comes in powder form in capsules.
Schizandra ( Schizandra chinensis )
This herb has been used in traditional Chinese medicine as an antiviral herb, specifically in cases of viral hepatitis.
Antiviral Vitamins
Vitamin A
Vitamin A stimulates several immune system activities, possibly by promoting the growth, and preventing the stress-induced shrinkage, of the thymus gland. Vitamin A is known to enhance the function of white blood cells, increase the response of antibodies to antigens, and to have anti-viral activity.
In addition, retinoic acid is needed to maintain the normal structure and function of epithelial and mucosal tissues, which are found in the lungs, trachea, skin, oral cavity, and gastrointestinal tract. These tissues, when healthy and intact, serve as the first line of defense for the immune system, providing a protective barrier that disease-causing microorganisms cannot penetrate.
Vitamin A deficiency results in multiple derangements that impair the response to infection. A review focused on experimental models of specific virus infections and on cytokines and cells with cytolytic activity important to antiviral defences. Altered specific antibody responses and greater epithelial damage in vitamin A-deficient hosts are consistent findings. The cytolytic activity of natural killer cells and various cytokine responses are altered. The inflammatory response to infection may also result in derangements in the transport and metabolism of retinol. We speculate that interaction of several factors may combine to explain the greater severity of infection seen in vitamin A-deficient animals and children. In addition to a pre-existing lack of tissue vitamin A, these factors may include reduced mobilisation and increased excretion of retinol during the acute phase response to infection, poor innate and specific immune response to virus, and delayed repair of damaged epithelia. Foci of vitamin A-deficient epithelia may be sites of penetration of bacteria and other agents, leading to secondary infections and contributing to an increased severity of infections and poor outcome in vitamin A-deficient animals and humans.67
Toxicity Symptoms
Vitamin A can cause side effects when taken in excessive amounts. Most causes of vitamin A toxicity are due to accidental ingestion of doses exceeding 660,000 IU (200 mg of retinol equivalents) and 330,000 IU (100 mg of retinol equivalents) by adults and children, respectively.
 Adverse reactions to acute ingestion are usually temporary and include loss of appetite, irritability, fatigue, weakness and vomiting. Chronic vitamin A toxicity may occur following many months of daily intake of the vitamin in amounts exceeding 14,000 IU (4.2 mg or retinol equivalents) in children and 25,000 IU in adults, and is most likely to develop in individuals taking high doses of vitamin A compounds to treat skin disorders, or in those with poor liver function.
 The symptoms of chronic toxicity in infants include growth retardation of the long bones (for example, the femur bone in the leg) and premature epiphyseal bone closing. In adults, vitamin A toxicity causes a variety of health conditions, including dry and itchy skin, dry and brittle fingernails, hair loss, headaches, visual changes, bone and muscle pain, fatigue, irritability, depression, schizophrenia, fever, liver damage, anemia, and/or loss of appetite. In most cases, these maladies begin to disappear as soon as vitamin A intake is decreased.
  For all of the above reasons, in 2000 the National Academy of Sciences set Tolerable Upper Intake Levels (ULs) for preformed vitamin A as follows:
• Children 3 years or younger, 600 micrograms (2,000 IU) per day
• Children 4-8 years, 900 micrograms (3,000 IU)
• Children 9-14 years, 1,700 micrograms (5,666 IU)
• Teenagers 14-18 years, 2,800 mcg (9,333 IU)
• Adults 19 years and older, 3,000 mcg (10,000 IU)
• Pregnant or lactating women 18 years or younger, 2,800 mcg (9,333 IU)
• Pregnant or lactating women 19 years or older, 3,000 mcg (10,000 IU)


 It is important to emphasize that although excessive intake of vitamin A by children and adults does not usually cause irreversible damage, vitamin A is toxic to the fetus and can cause severe birth defects, including cleft palate and spina bifida, when taken in daily doses exceeding 10,000 IU by pregnant women. It is recommended, therefore, that women who may become pregnant limit intake of supplemental vitamin A to no more than 5,000 IU per dDrug-Nutrient Interactions
Drug Nutrient Interactions
The following medications impact the absorption, utilization and/or excretion of vitamin A:
• The class of cholesterol-lowering medications known as HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors (Lipitor, Lescol, Mevacor, Provachol, Zocor) may increase blood levels of Vitamin A
• Bile acid sequestrants (Cholestyramine, Colestid) are used to reduce cholesterol levels. These drugs may interfere with the fat-soluble vitamins, including vitamin A.
• Medroxyprogesterone (Provera, Depo-Provera), a contraceptive, may increase blood levels of vitamin A
• Neomycin, an antibacterial drug, may decrease the absorption of vitamin A.
Isotretinoin and tretinoin (Retin-A, Vitinoin, Vesanoid) are used in the treatment of severe acne and certain types of skin cancer. These drugs are similar in chemical structure to vitamin A. To prevent the symptoms associated with vitamin A toxicity, individuals taking these medications should avoid taking supplemental vitamin A in doses exceeding 10,000 IU per day. 68
Vitamin C
The immune system relies on a wide variety of mechanisms to help protect the body from infection, including white blood cells, complement proteins, and interferons; and vitamin C is especially important in the function of these immune components.
Leucocytes require Vitamin C for Effective Function
Vitamin C is required for proper leucocyte function. Leucocytes are the body's white blood cells, a vital component of the immune system. Researchers investigating leucocytes from guinea pigs, realized that the unusually fragile leucocytes were the result of Vitamin C deficiency. 69 The scorbutic (suffering from scurvy) guinea pigs' leucocytes were so depleted of Vitamin C that they could not reject tissue transplants. Upon supplementation with Vitamin C, the leucocytes functioned normally, and the guinea pigs were able to reject the skin grafts.
Lymphocytes, a phagocytic type of leucocyte, are particularly important to immune responses in cancer and only function effectively as phagocytes if concentrations of Vitamin C are high. In an experiment to test the relationship between Vitamin C and reproduction of lymphoctyes, Yonemoto at the National Cancer Institute demonstrated a direct relationship between levels of Vitamin C supplementation and the budding of new lymphocyte cells (blastogenesis). 5 grams of Vitamin C doubled the rate of lymphocyte budding – 10 g Vitamin C trebled the rate, and 18 g quadrupled the rate of lymphocyte blastogenesis.70

Vitamin C Modulates Antibody Levels
  Antibodies are one of the immune system's most direct lines of defence against infectious foreign substances "antigens". When the body is exposed to such an organism, or compound, clones of antibodies are produced against the antigen, which attack and destroy it. There are a variety of classes of antibody molecules, with corresponding different functions within the complex immune system. Levels of three of these classes of antibody molecules – IgA, IgG and IgM – have been found to increase with increased Vitamin C levels.
  In a study conducted by Vallance of British subjects isolated for a year in Antarctica, it was found that antibodies IgG and IgM increased with increased Vitamin C intake. Similarly, in a placebo-controlled study conducted by Prinz and colleagues. 71 It was found that 1 gm Vitamin C per day resulted in significant increases in serum levels of IgA, IgG and IgM. Similar correlations with Vitamin C and antibody levels have also been found in guinea pigs, which, like man, cannot synthesise their own Vitamin C, and must rely upon external sources for this vital nutrient.

Antibody Function


• IgA Concentrates in body fluids (tears, saliva, respiratory, genitourinary and gastrointestinal secretions) guarding body entrances. First line of defense against invading pathogens and food allergens. Major Ig in defense against viruses.
• IgD Major Ig present on surface of B cells; may be involved in differentiation of these cells.
• IgE Involved in allergic reactions. Attaches to surface of mast cell and on encountering its matching antigen, stimulates the mast cell to pour out its contents. Also fights parasites.
• IgG Most common. Major Ig in defence against microbes. Coats micro-organisms, speeding their destruction by other immune system cells. Confers long-standing immunity.
• IgM Major Ig produced in primary antibody response. Circulates in the blood stream where it kills bacteria. Increases during acute stage of an infection. Usually forms in star-shaped clusters.


Vitamin C Modulates Synthesis of Complement
 Complement is a non-cellular immune component which is composed of a complex cascade of 20 enzymatic proteins which can modulate antibody-antigen reaction, thus affecting efficiency of phagocytosis, virus neutralization, chemotaxis and cytolysis. Vitamin C is involved in the synthesis of the C1-esterase component of complement, and levels of this compound increase with increased Vitamin C intake 72


Vitamin C Modulates Interferon Synthesis


  Interferons (there are as many as 20 different types) are proteins with antiviral activity, produced in cells which have been infected with virus, and also possibly in malignant cells. Interferon is being experimentally tested in treatment of different forms of cancer; however treatment with externally synthesized interferon rather than with the body's own naturally produced interferon, may have toxic side effects. Recent evidence confirms that increased Vitamin C intake results in increased interferon levels. 73 74 Thus taking Vitamin C is a "natural" antiviral treatment


Vitamin C Modulates Prostaglandin Synthesis


  The prostaglandins are a class of small lipid molecules which, acting as hormones, play a role in blood flow, heart beat regulation, cell damage by drugs and immune response. Two prostaglandins in particular, PGE2 and PGF2, are involved in tissue inflammation – swelling, pain, tenderness and heat. Vitamin C has been shown to inhibit the synthesis of PGE2 and PGF2-alpha, thus exerting an anti-inflammatory effect. The prostaglandin PGE1 modulates lymphocyte formation, thus playing a key role in immune response. Vitamin C increases the synthesis of PGE1 75, thus, in yet another way, contributing to the optimal function of the immune system.


  Vitamin C increases interferon our bodies own anti-viral agent. The effects of ascorbic acid on interferon production and on the antiviral effect of interferon in cultures of human cells were investigated. Ascorbic acid enhanced the interferon levels produced by human embryo skin and human embryo lung fibroblasts, induced by Newcastle disease virus and by polyinosinic-polycytidylic acid. 76


 Drug Nutrient Interactions


Categories of drugs that can diminish the body's supply of vitamin C include oral contraceptives (birth control pills), NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs including aspirin), corticosteroids (like cortisone), sulfa drugs (often used as antibiotics or in cancer treatment), and barbituates.


 Nutrient Interactions


Vitamin C has significant interactions with several key minerals in the bod


Supplemental intake of vitamin C at gram-level doses can interfere with copper metabolism. Conversely, vitamin C can significantly enhance iron uptake and metabolism, even at food-level amounts.


 Vitamin C also has important interactions with other vitamins. Excessive intake of vitamin A, for example, is less toxic to the body when vitamin C is readily available. Vitamin C is involved in the regeneration of vitamin E, and these two vitamins appear to work together in their antioxidant effect. 77


Smoking and aging reduces Vitamin C levels


 In a series of 54 healthy men and 84 healthy women, plasma and leukocyte vitamin C concentration of the men was found to be significantly lower than that of the women. For nonsmokers, there was a significant decline in the plasma vitamin C concentration with increasing age in the men and the women but the leukocyte concentration did not change with age.The cigarette smoking habit was found to lower significantly both the plasma and the leukocyte vitamin C concentration.78
Vitamin E
Vitamin E, or tocopherol, has been shown to exert a number of beneficial effects on influenza infection in animal studies (discussed below). A Russian study on humans showed that tocopherols lead to clinical improvement in influenza related pneumonia. 79
  The low toxicity and low cost of vitamin E make a moderate supplement an attractive option for preparing for avian flu and other possible influenza infections.
  In a study on mice, long term supplementation with vitamin E before infection was shown to reduce the activity of influenza A and B viruses. In particular, the vitamin lowered the amount of virus that was present in the lungs, lowered inflammatory cytokines (IL-6 and TNF) and reduced weight loss that was seen in mice not supplemented with vitamin E. Other anti-oxidants (glutathione, melatonin, strawberry extract) improved various measures of oxidation in the blood but did not reduce virus loads or signs of the disease. 80
 A second study in mice showed that Vitamin E has beneficial effects on cytokine levels during influenza infections. Vitamin E increased levels of interferon and IL-2 while decreasing levels of TNF and IL-1. The researchers suggested that vitamin E did so by reducing levels of prostaglandin E2. 81
 Previous research showed that even short term administration of vitamin E could have protective effects against influenza, although a long term administration of modest amounts (400 IU) followed by an increase if bird flu becomes active is a more logical approach.
 Other research on vitamin E and influenza showed that this vitamin can improve age related declines in NK killer cells in the immune system, and that there was a significant improvement in resisting influenza in older mice and a modest improvement in younger mice given supplemental vitamin E. 82
 Drug-Nutrient Interactions
 Use of the following medications can reduce the body's supply of vitamin E: Anticonvulsant drugs (like Dilantin ™) and cholesterol-lowering drugs (like probucol, cholestyramine, clofibrate, colestipol, and gemfibrozil) can significantly reduce the body's supply of vitamin E.
  Long-term, regular use of mineral oil (for example, as non-prescription laxative) can also compromise the body's supply of vitamin E.
 Nutrient Interactions
  The recycling of vitamin E in the body is intricately connected to four other nutrients: vitamin C glutathione, selenium, and vitamin B3.
  Vitamin C is required to keep vitamin E in its metabolically active form; glutathione (a very small protein molecule called a tripeptide and consisting of three amino acid building blocks) is required to keep vitamin C in its active form; and selenium (a micromineral) and vitamin B3 (in a special form called NADPH) are required to keep glutathione in its active form.
  The fact that vitamin E is so heavily dependent on vitamin C, vitamin B3, selenium, and glutathione means that a diet high in vitamin E cannot have its optimal effect unless it is also rich in foods that provide these other nutrients. At moderately high levels of 1,000 milligrams or more, vitamin E can interfere with the bodily activities of vitamin K. The potential injury to vitamin K metabolism was largely the reason why the National Academy of Sciences, in the year 2000, set a Tolerable Upper Limit (UL) of 1,000 milligrams per day for vitamin E. 83
Safety and Dosage
  Overall, Vitamin E has an excellent safety profile. A 2005 review study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition concluded that vitamin E is safe for the general population in a wide range of doses. This article concludes that vitamin E supplements appear safe for most adults up to 1600 IU per day, and noted that "no consistent pattern of adverse effects has occurred at any intake." 84
  There is a concern that this vitamin thins the blood slightly and large doses may be of concern if a person is on warfarin, coumadin, or other blood thinners. Many surgeons advise their patients to reduce or discontinue this vitamin if they know they will have surgery in the near future. However, a study in Japan involving a dose of 1200 IU for 28 days showed no changes in platelet aggregation, coagulation, and other clinical parameters related to blood clotting or general health. 85
  In a review of vitamin E and pregnancy in the Cochrane Systematic Database, the question was raised as to whether vitamin E could reduce the risk of eclampsia and high blood pressure in pregnant women. Although not enough data was presented to make a firm conclusion, studies alleging this beneficial effect were noted, and no health warnings were given. 86
  A 2005 study on pre-school children in the United States (in Lincoln, Nebraska) found that 91% had "less than adequate" levels of vitamin E in their diet. 87 A study on the adult population of the U.S. also determined that 90% of Americans obtained less than the recommended amount of this essential nutrient from their diet. 88
 A New Zealand study on diet and vitamin E status found that replacing many of the saturated fats with plant materials (particularly nuts and vegetables) increased tocopherols by 12 IU per day. This may be enough to lead to improvements in health over a life time, but is unlikely to have a strong antiviral effect as demonstrated in the animal studies on vitamin E and influenza. 89
 A typical vitamin E supplement for adults is in the range of 100 to 800 IU per day.
 Vitamin E is partially absorbed through the skin, and it makes an excellent topical treatment for sun burn. This transdermal method of absorption may be of value for those too sick to hold down food or absorb it through the intestines.
 Natural or Synthetic?
  Much of the less expensive vitamin E available today is semi-synthetic; it was produced in a laboratory using less expensive starting materials. Some concerns have been raised about the effectiveness of semi-synthetic vitamin E. In nature, all vitamin E molecules are 'right handed.' Half of the synthetic form of vitamin E is left-handed. At best, these left handed tocopherols are inactive and useless. There is some evidence that the left handed synthetic molecules may interfere with the ability of the body to use normal right handed vitamin E. I personally use only natural vitamin E, which is labeled as d-tocopherol. The synthetic form has the "dl-" designation on the ingredients.
 Alpha-Tocopherol or Mixed Tocopherols
Alpha-tocopherol does have potent vitamin E activity, but it is not the only type of vitamin E. The beta, gamma, delta and other tocopherols also have significant benefits. Although the research is not unanimous, it appears that a mix of different tocopherols may be better for long-term health maintenance than a mix with only alpha-tocopherol.
Zinc
 Many types of immune cells appear to depend upon zinc for optimal function. Particularly in children, researchers have studied the effects of zinc deficiency (and zinc supplementation) on immune response and number of white blood cells, including specific studies on T lymphocytes, macrophages, and B cells (all types of white blood cells). In these studies, zinc deficiency has been shown to compromise white blood cells numbers and immune response, while zinc supplementation has been shown to restore conditions to normal.
  Zinc is a natural anti-viral as it increases the amount of Interferon. 90
Drug-Nutrient Interactions
What medications affect zinc?
  Thiazide diuretics like Diuril ™ or Enduron ™ and ACE inhibitors like Capozide™ and Lotensin,™ both used to lower blood pressure, can compromise zinc status. The body's supply of zinc can also be reduced by use of antibiotics (like penicillinamine or tetracycline), ranitidine (often sold under the trade name Zantac™ and used as a stomach antacid), and oral contraceptives (birth control pills).
Nutrient Interactions
 A Tolerable Upper Limit (UL) for zinc of 40 milligrams per day was set by the National Academy of Sciences in 2000 for all adults 19 years and older. The establishment of this limit was largely related to the ability of zinc - particularly supplemental zinc - to impair the status of other nutrients.
  The most important of these nutrients are copper and calcium. Zinc can compromise the body's supply of copper unless foods rich in copper are also included in the diet. When few foods high in calcium are included in the diet, high levels of zinc intake (usually obtained from supplements) can also decrease absorption of calcium from the intestine into the body.
  Although zinc is associated with these potential detrimental effects on copper and calcium, it is also supportive of other nutrients. The best studied of these nutrients in vitamin A, Without zinc, vitamin A cannot be effectively transported around the body, and cannot efficiently be mobilized when it is needed. 91
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Final words:
  This has been hitting home lately for me, with my best friend's son having it, as well as numerous online friends, as well as my neice & nephews going to public schools where it's known to be...I babysit them regularily. I have a compromised immune system, due to numerous health issues, & though there are moments when fear tries to grip me (usually after watching the latest news), still, I know the Bible says that GOD has NOT given us a spirit of fear, but of power, & of love & self control!
His Word also says that fear has torment! We can have faith that our life is in God's hand, & use the power we have to build & strengthen our immune systems, including with eating the healthiest that we can...for me, this means the raw food diet... 
http://www.naturalnews.com/026238.html
http://rawfoodlifestyles.com/other-health-related/swine-flu-protection 
http://rawfoodrestaurantguide.com/blog/?p=57
...Or we can yeild to the panic, the fear-mongering, the looking to the Government to save & protect us, rather than God...
"As for me & my house, we will serve AND TRUST the Lord!"
I hope you will carefully & prayerfully weigh & consider ALL the evidence here & elsewhere before making your decision!
~Anastazia~