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"Although individuals with an unrecognized genetic predisposition to autoimmunity or who have an autoimmune disease may be more in need of protection against flu pandemics and infectious-disease outbreaks than others with less overexcitable immune systems, vaccines may in and of themselves prove to be dangerous for them. Just over thirty years ago, in 1976, the Centers for Disease Control investigated and confirmed that a severe influenza outbreak at Fort Dix, New Jersey, had been caused by the "swine flu"—an influenza A-type virus." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "As anyone who watches the six o'clock news well knows, the emergence of pathogens with the potential to become global pandemics is driving a frenzied search for new vaccines for avian flu and viruses such as SARS. For those with autoimmune disease, however, these vaccines might prove just as worrisome as they are reassuring." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Those numbers do not include the deaths from drug-resistant bacteria that now live outside hospitals, an invisible threat with the potential to cause pandemics that scientists are only beginning to comprehend. In 1999 doctors reported that four children from Minnesota and North Dakota had died from the virulent mutant bug MRSA. That wasn't the part of the news that had disturbed physicians. Thousands of Americans had been dying from that drug-resistant staph bacterium every year." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"It is based not merely on historical affinity with the three pandemics, but biochemical properties—one can ferment glycerol, another can turn nitrate into nitrite, one can do both (to compound confusion, a fourth variety, called Microtus, can neither ferment nitrate nor cause disease in animals larger than the rodents in which it is chronic)." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "Expanding the "frontier of cultivation" was not an • William Ruddiman of the University of Virginia believes that the clear-cutting of the great European forests is the beginning of the long history of human-caused increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide, a reaction to "massive human mortality accompanying pandemics" option available in either the built-out lands of the Mediterranean or the deserts that surrounded Mesopotamia. Only western Europe possessed the topographic advantage of a potentially arable frontier, in the form of the great European forests." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"Indeed, the world is threatened by ongoing pandemics of HIV/AIDS, hepatitis B and C, tuberculosis, and, potentially, avian influenza that are being driven by the mineral impoverishment of global soils and the poorer quality food they are producing. 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." - Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD, Feel Better, Live Longer with Vitamin B-3 (Get the book.)

"Deteriorating health, sanitation, and pest control will lay the groundwork for tuberculosis and other epidemics, as well as virulent pandemics like SARS. These diseases will not only endanger the lives of millions but will also create a sense of isolation and uncertainty that will add to the downward spiral. Feeling trapped and desperate, countless ordinary Americans will be wracked with feelings of bitterness, resentment, guilt, and frustration as they find it hard to come to grips with the pervasive fallout of a full-scale economic disaster." - Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.)

"Outbreaks and pandemics are thought to be caused by antigenic drift, when a mutation occurs in the DNA of a virus, or antigenic shift, when a virus acquires new genes from a related strain. When the antigenic drift or shift in a virus is significant enough, our bodies don't recognize it and have no antibodies to fight it—and that spells trouble. It's like a criminal on the run taking on a whole new identity so his pursuers can't recognize him. What causes antigenic drift? Mutations, which can be caused by radiation." - Dr. Sharon Moalem, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Get the book.)

"New medications and fast-paced information technology undoubtedly afford us the capacity to confront new ailments, like looming pandemics of bird flu, providing that governments don't lie or cover up early reports. But what about cancer? Can modern medicine, with its reliance on finding and treating diseases one at a time, alter the ways that the disease presents itself? We know how to cure relatively rare cancers, like those of children. We have made spectacular advances against many forms of the disease. That's why in the U.S. alone, there are more than 10 million cancer survivors." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"Consider the three influenza pandemics of the 20th century... The Spanish flu of 1918 affected 20% to 40% of the world's population and killed more than 50 million people—675,000 people died in the US alone. 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." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"Networking to Eradicate pandemics mmmm If infectious disease and infant and maternal mortality took as many lives today as they did a century ago, the world population would be dramatically smaller. But while overpopulation contributes to a spate of global problems — health-related and otherwise—none of us would bemoan the advancements in health care that have granted us life and sustained our wellness. We owe our thanks almost entirely to the advent of scientific public-health programs." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "And the nightmare diseases of the future are not the childhood killers that are almost eradicated—they're new pandemics like avian flu or SARS. Brilliant predicts that, should avian flu start transmitting from person to person, people will not get on airplanes, and commerce as we know it will cease for a sustained period, breaking just-in-time supply chains. 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." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Our weapon in this battle is information—systems like the Global Public Health Information Network (GPHIN), which scans news sites from around the world, digesting content in seven languages, to detect illnesses that might be pandemics. We witnessed its efficacy in the speed with which the WHO managed to gain control over SARS. The response took place simultaneously and widely, thanks to networked communication and preparedness. Indeed, technology can in many ways replicate the labor required for all of those billions of house calls, but much more quickly, cheaply, and safely." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Between 1900 and 1940, pellagra was one of the most serious pandemics in the Southern United States and around Mediterranean countries where corn was the staple food. The U.S. Public Health Service assigned the problem to Dr Joseph Goldberger. The favorite medical theory was that pellagra was an Infection, but he soon deduced that it was a deficiency disease and showed how it could be prevented and cured." - 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.)

"It doesn't want people using its products on the cheap for illnesses that are not pandemics. And one can see its point. Pharma companies, like those in other global industries, already practise differential pricing, whereby prices are tailored to what people can afford. But while the production company that made Friends, for example, will have sold the series more cheaply in Angola, say, than to Channel 4 in the UK, the pirating potential is limited because most people in the rich US market will have seen or taped it anyway." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"Other developments, such as localized famines, environmental accidents, or even the growing prospect of pandemics may prove too much for the public or private sector to handle when budgets are slashed and resources are stretched to the limit. So will natural disasters, which are unlikely to see even the inadequate level of response that followed Hurricane Katrina. Finally, when social and geopolitical conditions have deteriorated sufficiently, there will be other, potentially more pernicious threats." - Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.)

"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. A pandemic strain's capacity to cause severe disease in traditionally unaffected age groups, namely, young adults, is a major determinant of a pandemic's overall impact. For example, firefighters and nurses tend to be younger, and if they become sick, emergency response is compromised." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.)

"Contamination of the wild races of corn puts the genetic diversity of corn at risk and severely hampers our ability to fight any future corn disease pandemics. Such a pandemic already occurred in the early 1970s, when one-quarter of the U.S. corn crop was lost to blight that affected a single susceptible gene bred into almost all commercially grown hybrid corn. In 2007, the monarch butterfly population migrations were significantly below the normal average." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"It also provides the potential for pandemics. How Efficient Is Influenza at Making Us Sick? Influenza has been called the last of the great uncontrolled plagues for a very good reason. It spreads readily, enters the body through the air, and attaches easily to sites on the mucous lining of the respiratory tract. It's effective at entering human cells and evolves rapidly in an effort to keep up with our body's immune strategies. It likes crowds and closed spaces, and is most likely to cause sickness during the winter months when people are forced indoors." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.) "In the twentieth century, there were three flu pandemics. Between 50 and 100 million people died of Spanish flu in 1918, two million from the 1957 Asian flu, and one million in 1968 from Hong Kong flu. During the 1918 flu, 60 percent of the people of Nome, Alaska, died and some Eskimo villages were entirely wiped out. In Samoa, 20 percent of the population died, and many other South Pacific islands fared much worse. In some British boarding schools, up to 90 percent of children were sick and many died." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.) "Influenza pandemics are recurring events. 3. The world may be on the brink of another pandemic. 4. All countries will be affected. 5. Widespread illness will occur and infection and illness rates will be high. 6. Medical supplies will be inadequate. 7. Large numbers of deaths will occur. 8. Economic and social disruption will be great. 9. Every country must be prepared. 10. WHO will alert the world when the pandemic threat increases. source: World Health Organization 2005 www.who." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.)

"Larry Brilliant now has a new plan for preventing pandemics: the International System for Total Early Disease Detection (INSTEDD). The system will assist in promoting and protecting health worldwide by identifying disease early and treating it rapidly. Brilliant wants to build this around GPHIN, expanding the number of sites analyzed, and expanding from seven languages to seventy, so that the information would be accessible (and free) to people around the world, not confined to a few government agencies." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Worldwide influenza pandemics occur every ten to forty years, and in the last century the world experienced three.- the Spanish flu of 1918; the Asian flu in 1957; and the Hong Kong flu in 1968. Pandemics occur when there is a major change in the genetic material of the virus, creating an entirely new strain and one against which the world's population has no immunity. Given these parameters, and if the conventional experts are correct in their calculations, we could experience another sweeping influenza outbreak some time in the first decade of the twenty-first century." - J. E. Williams, Viral Immunity: A 10-Step Plan to Enhance Your Immunity against Viral Disease Using Natural Medicines (Get the book.)

"Earlier pandemics took place before virologists knew how to test flu strains and there were no subsequent pandemics.) Kennedy Shortridge elaborated from there. Asia, he said, is the influenza epicenter. The virus thrives in ducks, in particular, that are omnipresent in southern China. Those birds have served as a reservoir for dangerous viral strains that have become converted into human flus because of an ingenious system devised by Chinese rice farmers that inadvertently ensures that the flu strains have plenty of opportunity to jump from ducks to pigs to people." - Gina Kolata, Flu : The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic (Get the book.) "Kilbourne noted that vaccines have so far failed to protect people against flu pandemics, but that did not mean that vaccines could not be protective. "Reasonably effective vaccines for influenza have been available for thirty years," he wrote, "but not even recent pandemics have been significantly influenced by human intervention. Whenever pandemic influenza next appears, we must improve upon our well-intentioned but uncoordinated efforts of the past that have resulted in ambiguous advice to the public and inadequate production and maldistribution of vaccine." - Gina Kolata, Flu : The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic (Get the book.) "In his op-ed piece, Kilbourne stated his case succinctly, writing that influenza pandemics "have marked the end of nearly every decade since the 1940's—at intervals of exactly 11 years—1946, 1957, 1968. A perhaps simplistic reading of this immediate past tells us that 11 plus 1968 is 1979, and urgently suggests that those concerned with public health had best plan without delay for an imminent natural disaster." Kilbourne noted that vaccines have so far failed to protect people against flu pandemics, but that did not mean that vaccines could not be protective. " - Gina Kolata, Flu : The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic (Get the book.)

"A change in a surface protein is the very mechanism scientists believe was behind the great pandemics of the past, and it is what they now worry could allow the Asian bird flu to recombine with a strain of human flu to make it contagious among people. Flu expert Robert Webster, who heads the WHO collaborating center at St. Jude's Children's Hospital in Memphis, has warned that the Fujian flu mixing with the avian flu virus could create a virus with the worst properties of both. Simple regulation and enforcement is the answer for preventing the spread of disease from animals to humans." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.) "That's what causes pandemics. And preventing those is what keeps me going." What scares her even more, though, is that the flu virus seems to be changing faster than before. "We know the next pandemic is going to come." She frowns. "In the summer of 2001 a strain we thought had died out in the U.S. and Europe after 1987 suddenly reemerged—first in Hawaii, then Canada, then the States. It had circulated in southern China for a decade, but then took off. We have no explanation for why." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.)

"For the first time in the history, humans began to be sickened by infectious agents, causing widespread disease: endemics, epidemics and pandemics. The mass and density of the human population became high enough to sustain highly virulent pathogens: syphilis, diphtheria, typhus, typhoid fever, measles, plague, smallpox, cholera, tuberculosis and influenza. A killer bug could ravage its way through one human cluster after another, then make its way back to the original population years later." - APC Books, Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves: The Power of change Within to Change the World (Get the book.)

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