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"Isolation Avoidance, isolation of the most severe cases, rapid identification of super spreaders, and social distancing are more realistic approaches than mass quarantine to slowing the spread of a pandemic. Sick people, either at home or in the hospital, should be kept apart from healthy people. Disease is spread faster when sick people are clustered in wards. It's not as easy as it sounds because ventilation systems in hospitals can carry viral particles to other parts of the building." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.) "Once a pandemic gets going, it will spread rapidly and containing it will be like trying to stop a freight train. The next line of defense is in the hospital. But only the most severe cases get there. Since early symptoms are similar to ordinary flu, people aren't quick see a doctor. Once a case is hospitalized, things happen fast. Even if it is as far away as Asia, samples of the patient's blood and tissue are rushed to the CDC in the United States. Within 40 hours, experts can tell if it's the bird flu." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.) "In early 2006, the biochemical and genetic signals were there for a pandemic explosion, with the bird flu able to infect humans as well as birds. The flu hit Iraq hard and moved into Africa. More than 90 people were confirmed dead from the bird flu and 180 million birds were killed by the virus or slaughtered to prevent spread of infection. It was moving faster than expected and showed up in France in February. By the end of May, there were 205 cases worldwide with 113 dead, a 45 percent death rate. In Cambodia and Iraq, 100 percent of those infected died." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.) "The bird flu has all the makings of a pandemic virus. It circulates in birds around the world and migratory birds spread it on the wing. Essentially, it's impossible to control. How Can a Chicken Virus Infect People? Usually, bird flu doesn't infect humans. In fact, it shouldn't jump directly from birds to people. But farmworkers who come in contact with infected birds get sick. In the past, to become a human infection, avian viruses used barnyard pigs as a mixing bowl, bridging the biological gap between birds and people. There's no rule that it has to happen this way, however." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.)

"While he doesn't think avian flu will necessarily become a pandemic, he reports that 90 percent of epidemiologists believe a major pandemic will occur in the next two generations and will make a billion or more people sick. How do we stop pandemics? The way we stopped smallpox: early detection and early response. We won't have a vaccine for avian flu for at least three years, so we need to isolate cases quickly." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (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.)

"An increase in the prevalence of obesity in certain countries may well explain the concurrent and projected increase in diabetes prevalence [28-30] and coining the term diabesity pandemic [31]. Furthermore, body fat mass has also been shown to be associated with an increase in the risk of prediabetic conditions such as glucose intolerance and insulin resistance [6]. Despite these strong associations with diabetes, obesity does not appear to be an essential condition for type 2 diabetes to express itself in a genetically predisposed person." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"There are many secondary causes to this pandemic. Some doctors are a little concerned, as increasing numbers of children are given antipsychotic drugs for anxiety and conditions like autism. This is because these drugs can promote weight gain and therefore elevate the risk of diabetes. The anti-psychotic Zyprexa, for example, has been implicated in causing weight gain and diabetes. With increased weight, there is increased diabetes. Little research has been done on the long-term impact of Type-2 diabetes on children, over their life span." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "We act as if this is not really happening, but data of the diabetes pandemic show the hard-core reality. The dramatic increase in Type-2 diabetes among children is an ominous symptom of the Culture of Death lifestyle. How much more suffering and disability do we need to wake up from this deadly lifestyle and diet of the Culture of Death? COSTS TO SOCIETY By 2025, the largest increases in diabetes prevalence will take place in developing countries. Each year an additional 7 million people worldwide develop diabetes." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "The first part (Chapters 1 through 5) presents the global diabetes pandemic, the causes of diabetes, the program for curing it, and the follow-up support program. The second part (Chapter 6) includes Rainbow Green World Cuisine recipes, an infinitely variable menu, and a live "fast food" preparation section called the Four Means to Get Your Greens. There Is a Cure for Diabetes contains 530-plus references." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Philippe Grandjean and Philip Landrigan, declared that the role of industrial chemicals in causing neurodevelopmental disorders in human beings represents a "silent pandemic" in modern society. Their message may be a prescient one. Evidence has been mounting that exposure to metals, solvents, and pesticides present in our environment can cause severe clinical neurode-velopmental damage and may be contributing to the prevalence of learning disabilities, sensory deficits, developmental delays, cerebral palsy, autism, attention deficit disorder, hyperactivity disorder, and premature brain aging." - 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.)

"Even though a few people may have been infected with an H5N1 vims, there did not seem to be an incipient pandemic. They recommended that Hong Kong increase its surveillance and then they went home, relieved and satisfied that they had done a thorough job and that the situation was under control. Nancy Cox, back at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, still had a nagging worry. That child's death in Hong Kong was, after all, a frightening episode. She told herself not to be alarmist. "We kept looking back and thinking, 'Okay, this case occurred in May." - Gina Kolata, Flu : The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic (Get the book.)

"War is hard on an economy; pandemic disease is even worse. The best evidence for the demon's economic damage is Justinian's response: In March 544, as Khusro was besieging Edessa and Totila was marching north to Rome, Justinian issued an edict "on the regulation of skilled labor" in which he froze prices and wages at their preplague level: [P] ursuant to the chastening that we have received in the benevolence of our Lord God [i.e., the plague] persons . . ." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"These results pointed to the urgency of recommending more moderate weight gain during pregnancy, considering the current obesity and diabetes pandemic. However, weight control strategies to prevent metabolic complications should exclude strict energy restriction and its associated ketosis, which may have negative effects on fetal cognitive development [103]. The dietary approach in treating maternal obesity must attempt to improve insulin sensitivity in the mother without reducing fetal glucose levels and compromising fetal growth." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Today, vitamin D deficiency and dietary imbalances are pandemic. At the Arthritis Institute of Michigan, where I treat patients, 90 percent of patients who see a rheumatologist for treatment are deficient in vitamin D. Current statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tell us that more than half of the general population is vitamin D-deficient regardless of age. And about 70 percent of elderly Americans and 90 percent of Americans of color are vitamin D-deficient." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"It is reasonable to conclude, says health policy analyst Carol Sakala, "that a largely uncontrolled international pandemic of medically unnecessary Cesarean births is occurring."11 Even eliminating half of all C-sections would bring an estimated savings of $1 billion per annum in the United States—along with, we presume, a significant reduction of trauma and morbidity. That criticism notwithstanding, the question for this book is: Do Cesarean sections save lives, either the mother's or the child's? In a review of several recent studies published in 2003, the U.S." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Ebola virus outbreaks are linked to mining development in previously untouched areas as well as hunters looking for exotic bush meat; the AIDS pandemic is believed to have originated from human encroachment into African forests where wild chimpanzees were a reservoir for the virus; and fruit bats in remote areas are thought to be the original source of several high profile zoonotic pathogens which have spread to humans, the most recent of which is SARS. Similarly, H5N1 virus, or avian flu, is often the result of farmers and infected fowl crowding together in prime living space." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"The CDC estimates that 73 percent of Americans over sixty-five are overweight, and, given the potential problems obesity can lead to—from cardiovascular disease to diabetes—the agency is right in declaring it a pandemic. Simply being overweight doubles the chances of developing dementia, and if we factor in high blood pressure and high cholesterol—symptoms that often come along with obesity—the risk increases sixfold. When people retire, they figure they deserve a break after working their whole lives, and they start piling on the food." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"The second wave of the 1918 pandemic still was highly contagious. But this time it was a killer. Its path was evident in retrospect, when demographers traced patterns of unusually high death rates among young adults. By August, notes Gerald Pyle, a medical geographer at the University of North Carolina, the disease "had grimly cut its swath among populations of the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Japan, China, a large part of the Caribbean, and parts of Central and South America." - Gina Kolata, Flu : The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic (Get the book.) "Of course, everyone had one burning question: Were four cases of swine flu the first signs of a new pandemic? But, reported Dr. Arthur M. Silverstein, a doctor from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine who spent 1976 on the staff of the Senate Health Subcommittee, the men were nervous about the possibility, postponing an explicit discussion and playing it down, as if actually broaching the possibility of a rerun of 1918 might somehow make it happen. And yet, he added, "this idea was clearly in the minds of most of the participants." - Gina Kolata, Flu : The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic (Get the book.) "The lesson from 1976, Fukuda concluded, "is that if a new virus gets identified or reappears, you don't want to jump the gun and assume a pandemic is happening." It was the customary Tuesday lab meeting at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. The setting was the usual pretty, but win-dowless, room in the bunkerlike building. The twenty or so scientists and technicians would file in, taking their places around a glass-topped wooden conference table while stragglers were consigned to chairs lined up along the walls." - Gina Kolata, Flu : The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic (Get the book.)

"Given the pandemic of obesity occurring worldwide, more study is needed in this area, as well as determining the impact of weight loss interventions on survival and other short- and long-term outcomes. Recent reports suggest that mean weight gain during chemotherapy ranges from 1 to 5 kg; however, roughly 20% of women gain 10-20 kg [40, 184, 185]. Weight gain is most prevalent among premenopausal patients receiving adjuvant chemotherapy, and may vary by treatment regimen, with anthracycline agents associated with greater gains [40, 184, 186]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Reportedly, one-third of the rural European population and half of the urbanites died during the Late Middle Ages pandemic, peaking in 1348, and stretching into the 1600s. The worldwide death count ended at an estimated 75 million, 20 million of those in Europe alone. What about those who didn't die? They were mostly exposed to the very same germs. Most of those not "stricken" actually cared for the sick and even buried the dead. Maybe it is time to study radically healthy people for clues to good health instead of the pathologically sick. Germ phobia began in the 1860s." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Chemicals and Other Environmental Factors In 2006, scientists from the Harvard School of Public Health sounded a long overdue warning: industrial chemicals are responsible for a "silent pandemic" of brain impairment in millions of children around the world. By analyzing publicly available data, they determined that at least 202 chemicals are known to have the capacity to damage the brain. However, only a few—such as lead and mercury—are regulated with regard to children." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Millions of dollars in lawsuits and many years later, the only "epidemic" was an epidemic of vaccine injuries as the "swine flu" pandemic never appeared. Influenza Viruses and Governmental Fear Mongering: The "Avian Flu" Scare a Repackaged & Updated "Swine Flu"!" - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"Lomatium was used, particularly in the southwestern United States, during the influenza (page 269) pandemic of 1917 with reportedly good results. Active constituents According to obscure sources, lomatium is reputed to have antiviral effects. One source suggests the constituents tetronic acids and a glucoside of luteolin may be potentially antiviral.2 However, little is known about how these compounds act or if other ones might be as important. How much is usually taken? Lomatium extracts with the resins removed (often called lomatium isolates), 1-3 ml per day, have been recommended." - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.)

"This is probably a gross underestimate for this major world pandemic. According to Professor Foster, HIV/AIDS is caused by a deficiency of glutathione peroxidase, of which selenium is a component. Dr Taylor has likewise pointed out that selenium deficiency is a major factor and showed that HIV-i encodes glutathione peroxidase. The virus cannot replicate without competing with its host for selenium. It has also been shown that AIDS patients are selenium deficient and that the greater this deficiency, the more apt they are to die. As the disease progresses, the deficiency increases." - Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH, Naturopathic Nutrition: A Guide to Nutrient-rich Food & Nutritional Supplements for Optimum Health (Get the book.)

"Professor Foster has described, for example, the role played by selenium deficiency in accelerating the HIV/AIDS pandemic.11'12 Anti-aging Niacin is a remarkable anti-aging nutrient, much simpler and safer than drugs prescribed to treat aging conditioned. A study by L.H. Curtis and colleagues concluded that out of a sample of 162,370 elderly subjects, 21% were given prescriptions for one or more drugs that were considered inappropriate.^ More than 15% of them had prescriptions for two of such drugs, and 4% were getting three or more." - Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD, Feel Better, Live Longer with Vitamin B-3 (Get the book.)

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