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"William Jordan, an infectious disease expert at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Edwin Kilbourne, the influenza expert from New York Medical College, Dr. Brian Mahy, the director of the Division of Viral Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. John LaMontagne, the director of the Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Pamela Mclnnes, the chief of the respiratory diseases branch of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr." - Gina Kolata, Flu : The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic (Get the book.)

"The belief that vaccinations, like flu shots, have eliminated death from infectious disease in the twentieth century is widespread. In fact, much of the reduction in death from infectious disease is due to public-health measures, including improved nutrition and sanitation. And vaccinations are not without potential danger. We still don't know the potential long-term effects of vaccination. An oft-repeated fact is that 36,000 people die each year from the flu. The government urges citizens to get vaccinated, presumably to prevent these deaths." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"MacFarlane Burnet, Natural History of infectious disease (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1953), is a classic by a distinguished medical researcher, while Arno Kar-len, Man and Microbes (New York: Putnam, 1995), is a recent popular account. Books and articles specifically concerned with the evolution of human infectious diseases include Aidan Cockburn, Infectious Diseases: Their Evolution and Eradication (Springfield, 111.: Thomas, 1967); the same author's "Where did our infectious diseases come from?" pp. 103-13 in Health and Disease in Tribal Societies, CIBA Foundation Symposium, no." - Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Get the book.)

"Beyond infectious disease: nutrition and metabolic disorders Of course, there can also be pests and infections in plants. In human populations, that's like contracting an infectious disease. But realize that the vast majority of conventional medicine that is practiced today is focused on metabolic disorders, not infectious diseases. In fact, the leading causes of death in America are all nutritionally related disorders: cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, strokes, and so on. None of these diseases are infectious agents." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.)

"To answer that question, we need to take a brief journey into our species' health history, when infectious disease was on the rampage, causing the vast majority of death and disability. 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." - 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.)

"Although it is fairly easy to demonstrate this destructive process in a variety of experimental circumstances, for example nerve cells isolated in a dish, no one is sure that this excitatory damage actually occurs in any natural disease process. the infectious disease hypothesis Occasionally, scientists have claimed to have established evidence of viral and other infections in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "From a conceptual standpoint, it's helpful to compare AD to an infectious disease like HIV/AIDS. Though both diseases inspire a nearly universal fear in all of us, HIV/AIDS has a clear-cut etiology (origin). Blood tests can be used to identify the virus and its antibodies and establish definitively whether one is a carrier of the disease or not. Alzheimer's, which we already know is a probable diagnosis, even upon autopsy, is not so simple to identify." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"If a pediatrician actively advises a family to vaccinate on a schedule that differs from the AAP/CDC recommendations and the child contracts an infectious disease like meningitis, then the parents could sue the pediatrician, and they'd probably win. That's why parents who prefer this slower vaccine schedule might first have to sign a waiver. But even if these precautions require a little more legwork (and doctor's visits) on your part, they are absolutely worth the extra time and effort. With our kids, it always makes sense to err on the side of safety." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "Vaccine Safety Concerns While it's a terrible tragedy for any child to contract a preventable infectious disease that can result in long-term health complications and even on a very rare occasion death, most children fully recover and then have natural immunity to the disease. It's no less tragic for a child to suffer an avoidable adverse reaction to a vaccine, a reaction that can result in a lifetime of suffering with a chronic and debilitating disease. Although rarely discussed, adverse reactions are a reality." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "If there's not a widespread infectious disease going around, what's the rush? • The doctor always checks for titers. This means that, after Wyatt is given a vaccine, we check the protective levels of antibodies present in his blood against that agent. To put it another way: A child may have "positive" or "immune" titer levels if either he has been exposed to the infection naturally or if he's been vaccinated. If the results of this simple blood test are positive, indicating immunity, then the child may not need further vaccines of this type. • The vaccine must be necessary." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"In 2001,1 treated him for amoebic colitis, in conjunction with an infectious disease specialist. Hugo had apparently contracted the disease while whitewater rafting in Costa Rica. From time to time, when I was traveling to conferences, he'd see other local doctors for his minor ailments. In 2002, when he was ten, he came to me with a more serious problem. A doctor had diagnosed him with mononucleosis, and he was feeling really weak. He had a cough, a fever, swollen glands, a headache, and no energy. I reviewed Hugo's lab work, and I didn't like how it looked." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Infectious disease, the innate immune response, and fibrosis. J. Clin. Invest. Ill, 530-538. 16. Baumgart, D. C, and Carding, S. R. (2007). Inflammatory bowel disease: Cause and immunobiology. Lancet 369, 1627-1638. 17. Latinne, D., and Fiasse, R. (2006). New insights into the cellular immunology of the intestine in relation to the pathophysiology of inflammatory bowel diseases. Acta Gastroenterol. Belg. 69, 393^105. 18. Thompson, A., Hemphill, D., and Jeejeebhooy, K. N. (1998). Oxidative stress and antioxidants in intestinal disease. Dig. Dis. 16, 152-158. 19. Danese, S., and Fiocchi, C." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"It has been found in research studies to offer health benefits to those suffering from diarrhea and infectious disease. This may be due to its ability to produce bacteriocins, which are compounds that inhibit the growth of pathogenic bacteria in the small intestine. L. casei may offer some preventative effects against cancer. L. casei is beneficial to those who are lactose intolerant, as it aids in the digestion of lactose. L. casei is sometimes referred to as L. casei subspecies paracasei, and L. casei subspecies rhamnosus. Lactobacillus helveticus L." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"If your bmi is very low, you either have anorexia nervosa or some yet-to-be-diagnosed inflammatory, neoplastic, or infectious disease. Regardless, you're in trouble. Between very high and very low, increasing bmi is a very gentle risk factor. It is somewhat less gentle if you carry discordant weight in your belly. Divide the circumference of your waist by the circumference at your hips. The greater your gut-butt ratio is over 1.0 for a man and 0.9 for a woman, the greater your risk of dying before your time." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"All told, we created a system of medicine focused on reactive, rapid, and acute care of infectious disease. It was quite an accomplishment, and, though the race isn't won (newly emerging viruses and prions, like those causing mad cow disease, still threaten), it's amazing to consider that the bubonic plague of the Middle Ages that killed a quarter of the world's population is something medicine can easily treat today." - 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.)

"Attempts to treat infectious disease by traditional public health measures, including quarantine, were in wide use by the sixth century, though problematic in effecr; when Bishop Nicholas of Sion banned farmers from entering his town on market days in order to limit the spread of the disease, he was nearly arrested by the municipal authorities, who believed he was manufacturing a famine in order to drive up prices." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "Romans in order to do so provided the impetus for a substantial grain trade that would, in the course of time, provide a dangerous lure for infectious disease. Britain's geography did serve to insulate it from the worst excesses of the empire's Third-Century Crisis, and, as a result, it retained enough prosperity to make it a tempting target for locally grown raiders?primarily Scors." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "Galen's humoral theory of disease was little help in coping with any infectious disease, much less one as virulent as plague, but his disciples were not without resources in caring for the sick. During the sixth century, the greatest physicians of the known world, including Aetius of Amida and Alexander of Tralles (brother of the great architect Anthemius), resided in Justinian's empire, though not always in his capital. (Alexander eventually settled in Rome." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"More importantly, in its role as an antibacterial, it has been directly linked to increasing resistance Lo a range of antibiotics commonly used for treating infectious disease, one potential contributor to the evolution of "superbugs," now a major national concern. (15) Triclosan was mentioned previously this chapter as one of the contaminants found in umbilical cord samples collected by Greenpeace International and Britain's WWF. Surveys in Sweden have also found triclosan in the breast milk of 60 percent of women." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"The enzyme activity of probiotics has been found to help fight infectious disease, lactose intolerance, immune system deficiencies, and urogenital and vaginal diseases. Probiotics Produce Antimicrobial Effects Some probiotics have antimicrobial effects. Many of the probiotic strains of bacteria are able to produce substances that kill bacteria, called bacteriocins such as lactocidin, reuterin or acidophilin. These bacte-riocins have antimicrobial activities that reduce the growth of disease-causing microbes. To date, only some strains are known to to produce antimicrobial substances. L." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Above all, he would have learned that it was interfering with government-led efforts to control the epidemic spread of infectious disease by educating the Chinese people in modern germ theory.54 What changed everything was the 1949 Communist revolution, spearheaded by Mao Tse-Tung. Initially, Mao had taken the same scornful view of traditional medical practitioners as the republican government, at one point famously comparing them to "circus entertainers, snake oil salesmen, and street hawkers"—a comment that ended up in Mao's Little Red Book, read by millions of Chinese." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Beating infectious disease requires reducing the chance of infection as well as successfully combating any infection that might take hold and begin to multiply. In my opinion, the following products are far more powerful than even the most potent prescription drugs (or vaccinations) are protecting us from infectious disease. While drugs may offer a single, isolated anti-viral chemical, these anti-viral herbs and products pack dozens (or even hundreds) of synergistic phytochemicals that destroy viruses and bolster immune system function." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"Your illness began with an infection and your symptoms appear to be those of someone with a chronic infection, so your doctor may choose to send you to an infectious disease expert. When you see this type of specialist, be sure to tell him or her about all of your symptoms, including malaise, throat pain, swollen glands, and a fever. If you have had a fever (an oral or ear temperature exceeding 100 degrees), chart your temperature over the course of several days or weeks—however long your fever persists." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) "Although the infectious disease specialist will do a complete evaluation, including all the blood tests listed in chapter 2, he or she may rule out the possibility of an infection if your temperature chart is normal and blood tests also show no abnormalities. The specialist has gone through a diagnostic algorithm and has come up shorthanded. But one can diagnose chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) or its less severe counterpart, idiopathic chronic fatigue (ICF), without any such abnormalities." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) "As mentioned earlier in this chapter, the specialist may tell you that your illness does not have a known medical cause and that you have a clinical syndrome. An infectious disease expert may diagnose chronic fatigue syndrome or its less severe counterpart, idiopathic chronic fatigue. A rheumatologist may diagnose fibromyalgia, and a gastroenterologist may diagnose irritable bowel syndrome. Even if the specialist diagnoses one of these syndromes, he or she may not be trained to help you deal with the symptoms that they cause." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) "Go to an infectious disease specialist if your illness is characterized mostly by a fever, a sore throat, and swollen glands; to a rheumatologist if your illness is characterized mostly by achy muscles and joints; or to a gastroenterologist if your illness is characterized mostly by stomach pain with constipation or diarrhea. If you suffer from chronic pain, go to a pain management center." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"The reason we see so much chronic disease in the West is because these are illnesses that appear relatively late in life, and with the conquest of infectious disease early in the twentieth century, we're simply living long enough to get them. In this view, chronic disease is the inevitable price of a long life." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"That is, the conventional theory of infectious disease says that microbes have to be spread by some physical mechanism—shaking hands with someone who has a cold, eating infected food, or drinking unclean water. The transmission of the infection is always via a physical route. In contrast, in the NES bioenergetic model, microbes have their own energy and information fields, and these fields can be transmitted and can affect the body-field and, thus, the body. Biologist Rupert Sheldrake has hypothesized that every life form has a morphogenetic field that shapes it and drives its evolution." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"As a public health tool, vaccines are an astonishingly beneficial and cost-effective life-saving intervention against infectious disease. But they have their downsides, and autoimmune disease is emerging as a potentially dark one. In 1994, the Journal of the American Medical Association reported a dangerous relationship between diphtheria, tetanus, and oral polio vaccines and a number of autoimmune disorders, including Guillian-Barre syndrome." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"In the late nineteenth century, Pasteur's discovery of one-celled microbes led to rapid reduction of infectious disease. In the late twentieth century, the free radical paradigm, combined with effective programs to counter free radicals, promises to dramatically reduce degenerative disease. Reducing the oxidative stress caused by free radicals also provides backup protection to further reduce infectious disease—by strengthening the effectiveness of the immune system. We now have curative and preventive leverage on both infectious and degenerative diseases." - Hari Sharma, Freedom from Disease: How to Control Free Radicals, a Major Cause of Aging and Disease (Get the book.)

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