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"His most potent ammunition, however, was drawn from germ theory's recent and bitter defeat in the face of the influenza pandemic. He raised the spectre of influenza, and the putative 'influenza bacillus', which had been blamed but was often not found in clinical cases, yet found prolifically in the sinuses of the healthy. Thus influenza bacillus may exist and not produce disease; on the other hand, it may be absent and we may still suffer from 'influenza'. This leads to the question, 'what is the significance of a term like influenza'?" - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"Suppose there was an influenza pandemic, the meeting participant said. An immunization program was an almost certain invitation to disaster. Those who had been unable to get the flu shots in time would be angry because they would be vulnerable. Those who were immunized but who caught another virus that they thought was the flu would be annoyed because they would assume that the vaccine did not work. All in all, millions of people would be upset. Yes, a repeat of 1918 was unlikely. But, the participant said, "who could be sure?" And if it happened, "it would wreck us." - Gina Kolata, Flu : The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic (Get the book.) "The question he cannot answer, however, is whether the gradual rise in flu deaths before 1918 was the beginning of the 1918 influenza pandemic or whether it was simply a reflection of modest changes in another, much less dangerous flu strain. But Taubenberger is not won over by the papers that Oxford found on deaths in the British camps. "The 'purulent bronchitis' paper mentioned by John doesn't sound like flu and the description in the paper does not look like a good match to 1918 flu pathology," he said." - Gina Kolata, Flu : The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic (Get the book.) "The best way to combat an influenza pandemic is with vaccines—if manufacturers have enough advance notice of a new flu strain to make enough vaccine to go around. Manufacturers could, if they understood what made the 1918 flu so deadly, stockpile vaccines sufficient to protect the population if that flu or one like it ever came again. That, however, would require knowing what the 1918 flu looked like. Yet the last victims of the flu died in 1918, taking the virus with them. Under ordinary circumstances, that would be the end of the story." - Gina Kolata, Flu : The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic (Get the book.) "After an influenza pandemic of 1789, a young American doctor named Robert Johnson puzzled over how the infection could spread so far and wide, and so quickly. That epidemic came the year George Washington was inaugurated as President, two decades before the first steamboat crossed the Atlantic, and three decades before the first steam train took its first run. Illness spread so fast that it did not seem possible for it to have been transmitted by person-to-person contact." - Gina Kolata, Flu : The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic (Get the book.)

"In other words, it appeared as germ theory was achieving the status of established orthodoxy in the West, but also just after one of its most severe and public tests—the influenza pandemic of 1918?9. In Europe, some parts of the medical community remained ambivalent: they plumped for germs, but hedged their bets. The British, for example, continued to build pavilion hospitals and Nightingale wards (both of which were designed to fight disease as it was conceptualized by sanitarian and miasmatic, not germ theory, models—via eliminating filth and putrefaction, not microbes) until the 1930s." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"The sharp fall in home prices after World War I probably had something to do with the great influenza pandemic of 1918-19, which infected 28% of Americans and killed 675,000 of them.11 This epidemic caused people to stay at home and not look for new homes. It must have damaged the economy and also distracted attention and conversation away from the housing market. There was also an unusually severe recession in 1920-21. It is notable that there was no boom in home prices to accompany the sharply rising stock market of the Roaring Twenties." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"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. Like that earlier flu, avian flu unleashes an unusual hurricanelike storm of immune-system signaling proteins called cytokines, which signal the immune system to combat microbial invaders. Cytokines signaling to the immune system to fight disease is a good thing, but when cytokine levels are elevated for too long and their signaling becomes uncontrolled, they can hijack the body's immune system to turn against the body itself." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"It is my sincere wish that you will use the natural medicines I discuss to achieve a healthy balance, enhanced viral immunity, and a stronger constitution, and to survive an influenza pandemic." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.) "Social distance will be acceptable during an influenza pandemic. Wear a mask: To protect others from getting sick, wear a mask if you're coughing. Masks also help protect you from getting sick. No mask is completely reliable, but wearing one helps cut down the spread of infection. Do not clean or reuse masks. They should be used only once. Discard used masks immediately after use by putting them in a separate plastic bag before disposing of them in the trash. The 3M N95 and N100 are the preferred ones. Surgical masks are a good second choice." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.)

"On October 5, 2005 the New York Times reported that the deadly 1918 influenza pandemic was linked to the avian flu. Two teams of federal and university scientists announced that they had resurrected the 1918 influenza virus and found that it was actually a bird flu that jumped directly to humans. Democrats on Capitol Hill lodged their partisan complaints that the delay put Americans in jeopardy." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

"It's certain that another influenza pandemic will come. The only questions are when and what strain? Will 2007 or later be the year of the bird flu? Though China has long been considered the incubator of influenza virus and the most likely epicenter of a pandemic avian virus, the unexpected could happen where two or more influenza mutations might arise at the same time and in different places. It's been almost ten years since the first H5N1 bird flu strain appeared in Hong Kong. One of the weaknesses of science is a myopic view that doesn't allow for unpredictable events." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.) "No one knows when an influenza pandemic will appear, what strain it will be, or how bad it might get. The number of victims it's claiming is increasing, however. Children are hit particularly hard. Fatality among children younger than age 15 infected by bird flu in Thailand has been 89 percent. That's a paralyzing death rate. Bird flu is unusually aggressive and is considered highly pathogenic. An analysis of the symptoms gives details about what to expect. After infection, it takes several days to a week or more for symptoms to appear." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.)

"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. "This plan will serve as our road map on how we, as a nation and as a member of the global health community, respond to the next pandemic influenza outbreak, whenever that may be," he said at the time. Recently, the US has been stockpiling flu vaccines, yet these are not likely to be of much help." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"Even in relatively recent history, infection was a leading generation killer. The influenza pandemic of 1918, for example, killed forty million people worldwide. And today epidemiologists are worried that with the rapid spread of SARS and bird flu, another pandemic might be in the making. In response, we have to develop a way to combat those foreign invaders." - Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D., You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty (Get the book.)

"To name only a few: bird flu, the threat of a worldwide influenza pandemic, obesity, dis-eases like drug-resistant tuberculosis that are flown across national borders in just hours into a susceptible populace, mad cow disease, e-coli infections of green-leaf crops, serious dis-eases carried in processed meat (causing major recalls), carcasses of pets (euthanized because of dis-ease) recycled into pet food, uncertainties about irradiated food, cloned (bioengineered) plants and animals, gene mixing from one species to another, and on and on." - Tom Woloshyn, The Complete Master Cleanse: A Step-by-Step Guide to Maximizing the Benefits of The Lemonade Diet (Get the book.)

"Experts widely believe that species jumping led to the 1918 influenza pandemic, as well as the 1957 "Asian flu" that killed 70,000 and the 1968 "Hong Kong flu" that killed 34,000. Mad cow disease does not appear to have infected any humans in the United States yet, but between 2003 and 2004 there were several instances of other infections that jumped from animals to humans. The Midwest monkey pox outbreak was traced to a shed in a Chicago suburb from which a man conducted wholesale trade in prairie dogs, Gambian rats, opossums, degus, and mice, apparently legally." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.)

"If and when an influenza pandemic emerges, for instance, many AIDS sufferers will succumb, but people infected with the AIDS precursor, HIV, will still survive influenza and AIDS will march on. 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." - 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.)

"One might draw a parallel with the bubonic plague of the Middle Ages or the influenza pandemic of 1918 in which human mortality at the hands of the microbes was similarly devastating. Nonetheless, eventually a new equilibrium point was reached and the human race continues. The parallel with resistance mechanisms employed by bacteria to ensure the continuation of their genera is unmistakable. Clearly the contest between plants and animals on one hand and microbes on the other is a war that will never cease." - Amarjit S. Basra, Handbook of Medicinal Plants (Get the book.)

"European influenza pandemic. Death toll: Estimated to be 270,000 to 360,000. 20 1900-08. Indian cholera epidemic. Death toll: In 1900, the death toll was 805,698; thereafter, it was estimated to be 600,000 per year. 21 1901-04. Sleeping sickness epidemic in Uganda. Death toll: More than 250,000. 22 1918-19. influenza pandemic. The influenza began in the United States, but as American soldiers shipped out for Europe to fight during World War I, they carried the virus with them. Death toll: Worldwide, an estimated 30 million people died." - Deborah R. Mitchell, The Home Healing Almanac: Solutions That Will Help You Make the Best Choices About Your Health and Safety (Get the book.)

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