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"The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare grew concerned that the United States might be about to see another large national flu pandemic, involving numbers of influenza deaths reminiscent of the flu pandemic of 1918. The federal government deemed it prudent to vaccinate all Americans. In October 1976, the National Influenza Immunization Program officially began. Initially, nearly 1 million Americans were vaccinated each week, with the number growing to more than 4 million a week by the end of that first month." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"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.)

"AVIAN FLU: AN AUTOIMMUNE-INDUCING VIRUS The most feared of these new pathogens is no doubt the H5N1 virus, headlined, at this writing, to be the cause of the next flu pandemic. Because of the unusual way in which the virus can cause the body's immune system to rapidly turn from friend to foe, the avian flu is particularly troublesome for the quarter of the population that possesses the genetic predisposition to autoimmunity. Avian flu is feared because it could provoke a repeat of the influenza pandemic of 1918. The 1918 flu, or H1N1 virus, was—like the avian flu—an influenza A virus." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Magnesium Deficiency is Associated with Periodontal Disease Dent Res 84 (10):937-941, 2005 International and American Associations for Dental Research Natural Influenza Protocol with Magnesium and Vitamin C *T WTn the winter of 2005, The New York Times wrote, "As concern about a flu pandemic sweeps official Washington, Congress and the Bush administration are considering spending billions to buy the influenza drug Tamiflu. But after months J ILof delay, the United States will now have to wait in line to get the pills." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

"This is especially important if we face a deadly avian flu pandemic. KNOW YOUR ENEMY Colds and flu are both caused by viruses. They are spread through the air by coughs and sneezes and through contact with contaminated objects, such as a doorknob or a hand that has been used to cover a cough. Flu viruses are much more powerful than typical cold viruses. Cold symptoms are mainly confined to the head, neck and chest. Flu causes more general symptoms—fever, body aches, nausea, cramping, vomiting and severe fatigue. Flu also can develop into bronchitis." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.) "A number of us are afraid that if we had a flu pandemic, we would not have places to hospitalize people," Epstein says. . - The American College of Emergency ' Physicians can tell you more about the state of emergency medicine in the United States at www.acep.org/webportal. Keep These ER Aids in Your Wallet Regularly update information that could be lifesaving in the emergency room. Don't leave home without a... •List of your drug allergies (or the statement "no known drug allergies")." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.) "Worst-case news reports, including comparisons to the terrifying flu pandemic of 1918, have scared my patients out of all proportion. The odds remain overwhelmingly on their side—in 1918 there were no vaccines for flu, no antiviral drugs, no antibiotics or steroids to treat flu patients who had pneumonia or asthma and no worldwide public-health network. The current fear is reminiscent of the way many people blew out of proportion the risk for contracting anthrax, West Nile virus, SARS and mad cow disease." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"I can think of no process - save a major cataclysm such as a flu pandemic - that would reset this anxiety to a low level in the developed world. The phrase 'studies have shown' in a newspaper these days almost always prefaces a new worry to be added to the pile to make sure it does not shrink. Clearly, in If you happen to be allergic to narcissus absolute (€30,000 a kilo), you need not worry, since the stuff is definitely not contained in your soap powder." - Luca Turin, The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell (Get the book.)

"The influenza A virus strain of subtype H1N1 behind the flu pandemic was unusually severe and deadly. What made it that way? At no time in history was the world exposed to such massive and 24-hour pollution created by the fumes and smoke resulting from continuous bomb and grenade explosions, the burning of entire cities, the effects of mustard gases and other biological weapons by Germans. Nobody remained uninfluenced by it. The pollution created in Iraq today will affect every part of the globe within 24 hours, as the earth rotates around its axis." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"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.)

"Apparently, andrographis is believed to have halted the spread of the 1919 Indian flu pandemic. Scientific evidence supports that theory. Researchers at the Universities of Exeter and Plymouth in the U.K. conducted a survey of medical databases, herbal manufacturer information and World Health Organization reports to select seven studies that met the criteria for double-blind, controlled trials. The combined studies tested the use of andrographis as a treatment for respiratory tract infection in nearly 900 subjects." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"The resurrection of 1918 influenza has plunged the world closer to a flu pandemic and to a biodefense race scarcely separable from an offensive one, according to the Sunshine Project, a biological weapons watchdog. "There was no compelling reason to recreate 1918 flu and plenty of good reasons not to." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

"In comparison, an epidemic is a fast-spreading disease that affects a group of people in a limited geographical area but doesn't affect global health. A flu pandemic is a worldwide outbreak of a new strain of influenza virus that no one has immunity against and so it causes widespread sickness and loss of life. It's so contagious that the number of new cases increases exponentially. The reason we don't have immunity to a newly emerging influenza strain is because our immune systems have not developed antibodies to that particular strain." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.) "There are two fundamental things to understand about a super flu pandemic. First, it's a new strain of influenza virus, making it unrecognizable by our immune systems. We will have no immunity against a new influenza strain. Eventually, we'll develop immune recognition and the ability to fight it off, but that can take months or years. Second, nature has designed it to spread from person to person through a cough, sneeze, or touch, making it highly contagious. Critics among scientists contend that less than a few hundred people have been infected with H5N1." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.) "During a super flu pandemic, we could lose up to 90 percent of our elders. If we are not prepared now, will we learn so we are ready the next time? Pandemics behave as unpredictably as the viruses that cause them. In previous pandemics, great variations were seen in mortality, severity of illness, and patterns of spread. During a pandemic, there is a huge surge in the number of cases, with an exponential increase over a very brief time, often in a matter of weeks." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.) "The estimated costs of a flu pandemic in the United States alone are 70 to 165 billion dollars. The global economy, so much a part of the twenty-first century, would shut down. In fact, super viral diseases are historically real. During the conquest of the Americas, upward of 95 percent of indigenous people in North America, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America were wiped out by smallpox and influenza. The last major killer pandemic, the Spanish flu of 1918, caused an estimated 50 million deaths and possibly as high as 100 million in a single year." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.)

"We're also told that government officials are holding their breath over their fear of a devastating flu pandemic. We're even told that about 36,000 people die of flu-related complications in the United States each year, and most of those deaths are elderly people. The reality of the matter is quite different, though. How many people do you think died of the flu last year? Less than 175, according to Sherri J. Tenpenny, D.O., an internationally known leader in vaccine research!" - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"We might not believe that a virus could accomplish such a mass eradication, had we not seen the disastrous flu pandemic of 1918. Also, we know that a virus reduced the population of an entire continent in the 16th and 17th centuries. Most historians now agree that it was not the Spaniards alone who, during their quest for gold, defeated the New World people they erroneously called Indians. The smallpox virus the Spanish brought was the deciding factor." - Jaap Goudsmit M.D., Viral Fitness: The Next SARS and West Nile in the Making (Get the book.)

"Any place that is a teeming home to both wild and domestic birds, and to mammals (including humans), may be an ideal breeding ground for a flu pandemic. Europe in the Middle Ages, where humans and animals lived in intimate proximity, was such a milieu; the flu epidemics of that time were probably of local vintage, not imports over the Silk Road. Today's presumptive hub for novel flu strains is China. Since 1850, most flu pandemics have originated there. In China all known flu A subtypes reside in ducks and in the water they inhabit or fly over." - Madeline Drexler, Secret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections (Get the book.)

"India, for example, was among the hardest-hit nations in the 1918 flu pandemic. Today it has among the highest rates of AIDS infection. The age-old human enemies, tuberculosis, malaria, cholera, streptococcus, and other members of the familiar gang, will be on hand with new immunity to the old techno-tricks of the twentieth century. Even after these diseases may have spent themselves for a while, climate change will still be with us. Nobody really knows where that is taking us, though we do know that the human race has endured more than one ice age in the past." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

"CHAPTER SEVEN THE NEXT FLU PANDEMIC: Rapidly Mutating Viruses The alarming evolution Of deadlier and more drug-resistant bacteria presents a grave challenge. That threat is joined by the escalating dangers of viruses. Just as with bacteria, killer viruses lurk everywhere, and they are even more cunning. The threat of future pandemics is brought home by the story of the insidious influenza virus." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.) "Could another flu pandemic really be lurking just around the corner? "It is very likely," Cox says. "We just can't tell when. It could be fifteen years from now. It could be one year from now."4 The best way to stop a pandemic before it spreads, she says, is to test any and all flu strains that appear even the slightest bit unusual, and that is exactly what her lab at the CDC does. Without sufficient advance warning from such global monitoring, the CDC and vaccine manufacturers would not have enough time to assess the new virus properly and devise an effective, safe vaccine." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.) "It is not a question of whether the next killer flu pandemic will occur, but when. We are overdue. Nancy Cox and her team at the CDC run a remarkable program that tries to predict which strain of flu will strike, and instructs manufacturers about the correct vaccine to develop. Every time the flu changes, scientists must devise a new vaccine formula. The annual flu changes frequently originate in Asia, because so many people in some parts of Asia live in such close quarters and healthy living conditions may not be as uniform, raising the likelihood that a new strain will begin to spread." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.)

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