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 "A quick glance back to only a hundred years ago shows the top causes of death in the United States were pneumonia and flu (20 million died in the 1918 spanish flu pandemic), tuberculosis, and diarrheal illness.
So we fought back, developing antibiotics, vaccines, and anti-virals. Huge strides were made in chemistry, physics, and biology to understand the underpinnings of those viral and bacterial illnesses. All told, we created a system of medicine focused on reactive, rapid, and acute care of infectious disease."- Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.) |
 "SARS showed us beyond a doubt, however, and there is evidence that the 1918 spanish flu was similar, that viral respiratory tract infections can start in an animal, jump directly to people, and mutate without an intermediate host into a highly lethal disease.
The SARS virus was immunologically distinct. As a new infection, the human immune system wasn't prepared to cope with it. To make matters worse, the virus mutated rapidly and unpredictably; so even if you got sick and recovered, you could become infected again."- J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.) |
| "Lomatium dissectum is a plant once used by Native Americans to fight spanish flu. Preliminary research shows that lomatium has the ability to prevent viruses from replicating and to stimulate white blood cell activity. When used to treat colds and flu, I often see improvement within 24 hours. In my experience, the only side effect has been an allergic reaction in the form of a measles-like rash in a small percentage of users. This rash disappears a few days after lomatium is discontinued.
Eclectic Institute makes a potent product called Lomatium-Osha (800-332-4372, www.eclecticherb." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.) "The spanish flu of 1918 affected 20% to 40% of the world's population and killed more than 50 million people—675,000 people died in the US alone. The 1957 Asian flu pandemic resulted in approximately 70,000 deaths, and many still remember the 1968 Hong Kong flu that took the lives of more than 34,000 Americans. In August 2004, Tommy G. Thompson, then Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, unveiled the department's Pandemic Influenza Response and Preparedness Plan, which outlines a coordinated national strategy to prepare for and respond to an influenza pandemic. " - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.) |
 "For clarification purposes, the story was a entirely different in 1918, when 20-40 million people, mostly young adults, died during the "Spanish flu" pandemic. This pandemic, however, wasn't a natural cleansing event so typical for the now yearly flu epidemics. The 1918 outbreak was directly linked with the Great War (World War 1). The influenza A virus strain of subtype H1N1 behind the flu pandemic was unusually severe and deadly. What made it that way?"- Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) |
| "Pandemic influenza, like the spanish flu of 1918, is much more virulent than regular flu. As if it is in a hurry to bypass the usual incubation period, it spreads readily and rapidly from person to person, and the infected individual can die within 48 hours after primary infection.
Differences between Ordinary Flu and Pandemic Flu ordinary pandemic
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High viral load?" - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.) |
 "Lomatium dis-sectum) was a life-saving remedy for Native American Indians living in the Nevada desert during the spanish flu epidemic that killed over 500,000 people in the United States and 22 million worldwide. A local medical doctor noted that Native American Indians were recovering from the spanish flu by ingesting boiled lomatium root. It is believed that phyto-chemicals found in lomatium root inhibit viruses from replicating and stimulate white blood cell activity."- James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D., Prescription for Natural Cures: A Self-Care Guide for Treating Health Problems with Natural Remedies Including Diet and Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Bodywork, and More (Get the book.) |
| "In addition to its technical designation, when the flu becomes a human infection, each of the different influenza A viruses is given a common name corresponding to the place of outbreak or origin: the spanish flu of 1918 or the Hong Kong flu of 1968.
The word "influenza" is derived from the Latin influentia, to influence. During the Renaissance, astrologers in Florence attributed epidemic respiratory infections to the influence the stars had on people. Traditionally, seasonal flu is associated with an attack of cold weather. In Spanish, the seasonal flu is called la grippe." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.) "Between 50 and 100 million people died of spanish flu in 1918, two million from the 1957 Asian flu, and one million in 1968 from Hong Kong flu. During the 1918 flu, 60 percent of the people of Nome, Alaska, died and some Eskimo villages were entirely wiped out. In Samoa, 20 percent of the population died, and many other South Pacific islands fared much worse. In some British boarding schools, up to 90 percent of children were sick and many died. Death rates were particularly high among pregnant women, with 70 percent succumbing to the illness." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.) |
 "This disaster would become known as the spanish flu, because the first few cases were reported from Spain. But as we will see, each year's flu virus actually arises in China and causes at least a small epidemic there before spreading abroad.
Largely unnoticed in the 1918 chaos was the fact that pigs also had a flu epidemic about that time. And ever since then, a swine epidemic of influenza has occurred nearly every year. Did we catch the flu from the pigs or did they catch it from us?
The latter now seems to be the case, though that discovery was years away in 1918."- Jaap Goudsmit M.D., Viral Fitness: The Next SARS and West Nile in the Making (Get the book.) |
 "One of the worst such epidemics, the 1917-18 "Spanish flu," killed some 20 million people.
Leprosy (Hansen's disease) Known since ancient times, leprosy is a chronic disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae. Once widespread, the number of infected people has declined rapidly since the early 1990s. According to WHO, at the beginning of 2003 there were about 534,000 leprosy patients worldwide, primarily in the tropics; between 1 million and 2 million people were disabled due to past and present leprosy."- The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) |
 "Secondary complications, like bacterial bronchitis and viral pneumonia, are intertwined with severe flu and are considered the probable cause of most of the deaths from the 1918 spanish flu epidemic, a time when antibiotics were still undiscovered. In the one year that the spanish flu was at its peak, one in every one hundred people died from influenza or complications. If such an outbreak were to occur today, a one percent death rate would mean that 60 million people, more than the population of France, would die in one year."- J. E. Williams, Viral Immunity: A 10-Step Plan to Enhance Your Immunity against Viral Disease Using Natural Medicines (Get the book.) |
 "Despite the availability of flu vaccinations, an average of 36,000 Americans still die from the influenza virus every year,14 and microbiologists fear that the flu is overdue to change abruptly, sparking another pandemic like the 1918 "Spanish flu" that killed 500,000 people in the United States alone.
The bizarre pathogens known as prions—normal proteins that become destructive after they strangely misfold—are rising, too. In Britain, people who have eaten prion-contaminated beef have been dying, years after cows themselves began falling from mad cow disease. The first U.S."- Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.) "The 1918 "Spanish flu" killed 500,000 people in the United States and 20 million worldwide, and depressed world population growth for ten years. The 1957 "Asian flu" killed 70,000 Americans, and the 1968 "Hong Kong flu" killed 34,000. Hong Kong strains, still not fully understood, have since caused more than 400,000 American deaths, 90 percent of them in people age sixty-five or older. Ancient history? Hardly. Scientists now say we are overdue for another pandemic—and it is unlikely that any vaccine could be produced fast enough to stop it." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.) |
 "One of the interesting historical notes about lomatium is that it was used by Native Americans during the spanish flu epidemic of 1917-1918. This is the epidemic that killed over 22 million people worldwide, and over 500,000 people in the United States. A doctor noticed that Native American Indians in the Nevada desert were recovering from the spanish flu. He found they were boiling and ingesting lomatium root. He learned how to use the herb from the Indians and began using it, as did other doctors who saw similar healing effects from using lomatium."- Mark Stengler, N.D., The Natural Physician's Healing Therapies (Get the book.) |
| "Two independent reports were published showing that the "Spanish flu" virus that killed 500,000 Americans in 1918 was similar to the avian flu virus that had infected dozens of people in Asia in early 2004.3 Was it only the fast response and slaughter of millions of chickens that saved us from another catastrophic pandemic? No one knows.
Steps have been taken over the last year to contain new outbreaks, but there is much more that needs to be done. Consider the United States' handling of its first case of mad cow disease." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.) |
| "Mass vaccination will have to become the cornerstone of health care more than ever before, definitely at a time when there is a risk that exterminated viruses such as smallpox will be circulated again, that pandemics will be caused by viruses with an originally limited area of distribution, such as Ebola, the spanish flu, and West Nile or that new viruses, like the SARS virus, will emerge. These viruses are there to stay: a proof of the immense fitness of viruses." - Jaap Goudsmit M.D., Viral Fitness: The Next SARS and West Nile in the Making (Get the book.) |
| "Secondary complications, like bacterial bronchitis and viral pneumonia, are intertwined with severe flu and are considered the probable cause of most of the deaths from the 1918 spanish flu epidemic, a time when antibiotics were still undiscovered. In the one year that the spanish flu was at its peak, one in every one hundred people died from influenza or complications. If such an outbreak were to occur today, a one percent death rate would mean that 60 million people, more than the population of France, would die in one year." - J. E. Williams, O.M.D., Viral Immunity (Get the book.) |
| "A local medical doctor noted that Native American Indians were recovering from the spanish flu by ingesting boiled lomatium root. It is believed that phyto-chemicals found in lomatium root inhibit viruses from replicating and stimulate white blood cell activity.
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At the first signs of a flu, take a dose of the combination flu remedy four times daily for three days. This contains the most common remedies used for the flu. Another alternative is a flu remedy containing Anas barbariae." - James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D., Prescription for Natural Cures: A Self-Care Guide for Treating Health Problems with Natural Remedies Including Diet and Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Bodywork, and More (Get the book.) |
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