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"They play a critical role in preventing serious illnesses and infectious diseases. From a public-health standpoint, vaccines are essential in maintaining what is called "herd immunity," meaning that they help to protect the public as a whole. In other words, your child is vaccinated first and foremost to protect the "herd." The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has estimated that we vaccinate approximately 80 percent of our population, a practice that has greatly reduced the spread of many harmful infectious diseases in our society." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Here is how Viera Scheibner summarizes her research: I did not find it difficult to conclude that there is no evidence whatsoever that vaccine of any kind - but especially those against childhood diseases - are effective in preventing the infectious diseases they are supposed to prevent. Further, adverse effects are amply documented and are far more significant to public health than any adverse effects of infectious diseases." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"With world air travel expected to grow at about 5 percent a year for at least the next twenty years, the global crisis of newly emerging infectious diseases is unlikely to disappear anytime soon. Others argue for the impact of global warming and hotter weather on growing rates of infectious diseases. In Al Gore's 2006 movie An Inconvenient Truth, a disturbing chart cites rising rates of illnesses, among them SARS, malaria, Ebola virus, and avian flu." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"The National Foundation for infectious diseases cited these areas as their top 10 concerns: Antimicrobial Resistance; Bioterrorism; Emerging Infectious Diseases; Gastrointestinal, Diarrheal and Food-borne Diseases; Hepatitis; HIV and AIDS; Hospital Acquired and Opportunistic Infections; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Tuberculosis, Vaccine Preventable Diseases (including flu). New diseases with potential to become pandemic: SARs, Avian flu, and a variety of microbes under observation. The Institute of Medicine maintains 20% of children in America will be obese by 2010." - Jackie Lapin, The Art of Conscious Creation: How You Can Transform the World (Get the book.)

"Known to have antimicrobial effects, it has been found in clinical studies to be effective against diarrhea and other infectious diseases. B. longum can stimulate the immune system and appears to offer some cancer prevention. B. longum is prominent in healthy children, and has been found to be beneficial against some childhood diseases. In addition, in clinical studies B. longum has been found to reduce the frequency of gastrointestinal disorders such as diarrhea and nausea during antibiotic use. Enterococcus faecium Enterococcus is a gram-positive bacterium with a spherical to ovoid shape." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"This means they have received training similar to that of the internist or primary-care provider but then continued their studies to learn more about a specific area of medicine, such as rheumatology or infectious diseases. Being integrative means that a doctor should see the patient in a broader scope—as a person with a medical problem living in a community that produces both stress and pleasure, as a person living in an environment that could be pleasant or horrible, and as a person living in a world filled with challenges ranging from terrorism to global warming." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) "Widespread Pain, Bodily Tenderness, and Fibromyalgia Unlike people whose fatigue begins with flulike symptoms and who often are sent to doctors specializing in infectious diseases, those reporting a slow progression of bodywide pain usually wind up seeing doctors who specialize in rheumatic diseases, problems related to the ligaments or joints. This referral pattern The diagnosis of FM requires a person to have symptoms (widespread pain) and signs (patient reports pain in eleven or more of the eighteen points depicted when pressed with 9 pounds of pressure)." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) "If the fluid is positive, I send the patient to an expert in infectious diseases for treatment. The Workup for Irritable Bowel Just as your doctor will order a series of tests looking for the causes of chronic fatigue or pain, he or she will also order tests if you've been diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Although the diagnosis of IBS is based on symptoms, your doctor will probably want to rule out serious gut diseases that can produce similar symptoms." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) "If testing is positive, both of these agents can be treated by an infectious diseases specialist. Chronic Sinusitis Some people with chronic fatigue or widespread pain will mention that they also have other recurring symptoms, or their past medical record may make note of such conditions. For example, it's not uncommon for a chronic fatigue patient to report having had repeated attacks of sinusitis. When this is the case, I ask the patient if he or she has problems with stuffed nose, postnasal drip, and pain or pressure in the face." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on infectious diseases. His research interests are in immunocompromised children, antibiotics, and Lyme disease, and he is the author of numerous articles and book chapters. He has received several awards for outstanding teaching of medical students and residents. Dr. Boscamp has been a frequent speaker at continuing education programs and national conferences. Devra Davis, Ph.D., MPH, is director of the Center for Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburg Cancer Institute." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"The Canadian healer Olga Worrell refused to carry out negative intention on infectious diseases for exactly that reason. She worried that her negative intent might move beyond the bacteria and accidentally target the person she was trying to heal.7 One of the earliest experiments using negative intention was conducted by Jean Barry, president of the Institut Metapsychique International, who studied bacteria and fungi. As insignificant as these lowly organisms appear, Barry, a general practitioner, understood their pivotal role in maintaining health and causing illness." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has estimated that we vaccinate approximately 80 percent of our population, a practice that has greatly reduced the spread of many harmful infectious diseases in our society. Take measles as an example: Before the introduction of the measles vaccine in the United States, there were approximately five hundred thousand reported cases and five hundred deaths annually from the disease. In 1998, there were only one hundred reported cases of measles in the United States. No one can deny that's a dramatic improvement." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"The breakdown of the poorest and most directly exposed regions creates a global security threat: • Epidemics of infectious diseases spread over Africa, Asia, and the Americas owing to heat waves, outbreaks of agricultural pests, and contaminated drinking water. • The waves of migration to relatively well-off regions overload the local resource base and create conflict with the established populations. • Terrorist groups, nuclear proliferators, narco-traffickers, and organized crime form alliances with unscrupulous entrepreneurs and expand the scale and scope of their activities." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"Thanks to antibiotics, far fewer people fall victim to infectious diseases like pneumonia and smallpox. But in more recent years, the chronic overuse of antibiotics has become a huge problem in our culture. Pediatricians prescribe antibiotics to children for the most minor health complaints—even ones that antibiotics can do nothing to treat. "There was always this expectation that your doctor's visit was a failed one if you didn't emerge with antibiotics," Dr. Boscamp said. But in the past five years, the situation has changed somewhat. " - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"In the October 22,1997 infectious diseases in Clinical Practice, Dr. Classen presented more data further substantiating his findings of a vaccine-diabetes connection. He reported that the incidence of diabetes in Finland was stable in children under 4 years of age until the government made several changes in its childhood vaccination schedule. In 1974,130,000 children age 3 months to 4 years were enrolled in a vaccine experimental trial and injected with hepatitis B vaccine or meningococcal vaccine." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Contribute to the global fight against infectious diseases. ?Choose behaviors that protect against global warming. EPILOGUE Thinking Like a Mountain: The Future of Aging The world revolves, not around the creators of new noises, but the creators of new values. ?Friedrich Nietzsche One of my favorite things to do is to hike in the mountains, which have long served as a source of inspiration to mankind. While visiting Oslo, Norway, in 2006,1 sought out a ninety-year-old philosopher named Arne Naess, a colorful character who lived part of the year in a shack nestled in the mountains." - 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.) "Taking on global warming Addressing the challenge of infectious diseases also means taking action against global warming. Elevated temperatures may increase the number and distribution of insects such as mosquitoes that carry diseases like malaria; may promote bacterial growth leading to greater risk of food poisoning and diarrheal disease; and may warm waters and promote flooding, amplifying the risk of waterborne infections such as cholera." - 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.)

"And it devastated our health, leading to a panoply of deficiencies and infectious diseases that we've only managed to get under control in the last century or so.) The biggest change in our food environment since then? The advent of the modern diet. To get a better grip on the nature of these changes is to begin to understand how we might alter our relationship to food—for the better, for our health. These changes have been numerous and far reaching, but consider as a start these five fundamental transformations to our foods and ways of eating." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"While our grandparents and great-grandparents' medical care was relatively primitive compared to the care available today, and while their vulnerability to infectious diseases made them less healthy than you in many ways, the quality of their diet and their physical activity levels were often far more health promoting than yours. I want you to think about this confluence of too much food and too little activity to help you appreciate why it can be difficult to lose weight. It's not about "willpower"—it's about outsmarting a culture that's trying to bulk you up." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"The McKinleys studied the impact of prophylaxis on eleven infectious diseases which had been deadly at the beginning of the twentieth century in the United States. For each one, the authors charted the slope of decline in mortality, marking in each case the first year of widespread medical intervention. The findings are dramatic: for each case the intervention comes long after the most significant declines in mortality. The McKinleys then calculate the fall in the standard death rate after intervention as a percent of the total fall for that disease. The findings are significant." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"The body does not acquire real immunity to infectious diseases by exposing it to vaccines (antibody production alone does not create immunity); in fact, with each vaccine the immune system becomes depleted more. New vaccines that, for example, are said to prevent cervical cancer (connected with the human papillomavirus or HPV) merely force the body to move toxins into other areas. This may give rise to the appearance that the "enemy" is dead and the body is now cured and safe. Not by a long shot!" - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"According to the Kevala Center for Holistic Health, it's quite effective for cuts, burns, and insect bites, and it's a powerful antiviral agent as well and may even be useful in helping fight off infectious diseases such as flu and colds. The center recommends putting a couple of drops of the oil in a bowl of steaming water, covering your head, and inhaling for five to ten minutes to relieve congestion and fight infection." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"They taught us that the modern era had not escaped the age-old plagues of infectious diseases after all; and they also taught us that the well-recognized syndrome of modern life, stress, had a reach that had not previously been suspected. We learned that, by undermining immune function, stress could compromise our ability to defend ourselves against infection. In this sense, AIDS taught us that the modern era had been doubly caught out. By the second half of the 1990s, research on stress and the immune system had begun to focus on other vulnerable populations." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Others argue for the impact of global warming and hotter weather on growing rates of infectious diseases. In Al Gore's 2006 movie An Inconvenient Truth, a disturbing chart cites rising rates of illnesses, among them SARS, malaria, Ebola virus, and avian flu. The documentary's accompanying Web site states that with continued warming, deaths from climate-related illness are expected to rise sharply over the next two decades, according to projections by the World Health Organization." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Except for the immunization against smallpox (accounting for less than 2% of the historical decline death rates), it is "unlikely that personal medical care had a significant effect on mortality from infectious diseases before the twentieth century." Between 1900 and 1935, there were some successful medical interventions: diphtheria antitoxin, surgery for appendicitis, Salversan for syphilis, intravenous therapy for diarrheal diseases, and immunization against tetanus. Yet the contributions of these treatments to the total decline of the death rate was small." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Much of this, of course, springs from the successful use and deployment of antibiotics to fight infectious diseases. Antibiotics are indeed miracle drugs. Yet, they have not conquered the world's infectious diseases. In fact, it could be argued that they have created something worse: Antibiotic-resistant superbugs. Even as we conquer one disease, such as smallpox, a new disease emerges. Today, we're dealing with the H5N1 strain of influenza, or bird flu, a disease for which there is no antibiotic treatment whatsoever." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"The National Foundation for infectious diseases cited these areas as their top 10 concerns: Antimicrobial Resistance; Bioterrorism; Emerging Infectious Diseases; Gastrointestinal, Diarrheal and Food-borne Diseases; Hepatitis; HIV and AIDS; Hospital Acquired and Opportunistic Infections; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Tuberculosis, Vaccine Preventable Diseases (including flu). New diseases with potential to become pandemic: SARs, Avian flu, and a variety of microbes under observation. The Institute of Medicine maintains 20% of children in America will be obese by 2010." - Jackie Lapin, The Art of Conscious Creation: How You Can Transform the World (Get the book.)

"First, modern medicine has had little to do with the control of deadly infectious diseases, such as typhoid, scarlet fever, and diphtheria.. According to two prominent medical sociologists: "3.5 percent probably represents a reasonable upper limit estimate of the total contribution of medical measures to the decline in mortality in the United States since 1900."22 Second, modern medicine has had little impact on overall life expectancy. We don't live much longer today than we did at the turn of the twentieth-century." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"It has antimicrobial effects and appears to offer beneficial effects in those suffering from diarrhea and infectious diseases. L. bulgaricus produces lactase, which can benefit those with lactose intolerance. It may offer some cancer prevention. L. bulgaricus has been used in clinical studies involving children with good success. Considered a transient microorganism, L. bulgaricus does not implant in the intestinal tract, but it still provides an important protective/beneficial role. Used in the commercial fermentation of yogurt, L. bulgaricus is a commonly consumed probiotic." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Immunizations, including those practiced on babies, not only did not prevent any infectious diseases, they caused more suffering and more deaths than have any other human activity in the entire history of medical intervention.16 While modern medicine leads us to believe the reduction of epidemic diseases like smallpox and polio is due to the introduction of mass vaccination programs, the research of Miller and Scheibner found this to be totally unsubstantiated." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

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