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It tells horror stories: Sometimes the disease developed with stunning rapidity: The epidemic was exacerbated by politics and military considerations. Because of WWI, young men were gathered and crowded into barracks and troops were transferred to new locations, helping the disease to spread. Quarantine recommendations were rejected because they might cause panic and interfere with the war effort. Vital public health information was censored to maintain morale, so the public and many officials were slow to realize the extent of the problem.
Falsely reassuring bulletins were issued with unhelpful advice to prevent contagion by keeping warm, keeping the feet dry, and keeping the bowels open. It was named the Spanish flu not because it originated in Spain the author thinks it most likely originated in Kansas but because the Spanish government was the only one that allowed the truth to be publicized. The book explains how the flu virus works, how it mutates even during a given flu season, what antigen drift and antigen shift are, why we have to keep changing the vaccines, and how antigen shift can result in an epidemic.
This is why young healthy people were most susceptible: Ironically, the massive immune response itself damaged the lungs so that they were susceptible to bacterial invasion. Elektronica topcadeaus Korting op parfum Cadeauwinkel Cadeaukaarten Kerst voordeel. Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. Samenvatting What are you going to do when the Hospitals are full and there are thousands of sick people outside waiting with rumors that most of the staff is sick and stocks have nearly run out? Most of the GPs are sick or closed and all the Chemists have big posters in their windows telling of the stocks that they have run out of, how are you going to treat your family, what are you going to do.
This book is your last hope as there is nothing like it, as it is basically a survivors survival manual designed and set out in such a way as to teach you what you need to know at the fastest possible speed. Treatment should begin at the first sign of the symptoms or before and should hopefully have aborted the disease before it starts or made the condition a more milder form of the disease as it can be too late sometimes to do anything once you learn the name of a disease.
We introduce you to Herbal and Homeopathic Medicine and go through the most nasty diseases on the planet, even the ones from the past such as Small Pox and give you the Herbal and Homeopathic remedies for the treatments and sometimes give you the symptoms of a disease not only through the normal way but through the eyes of a Practitioner who one hundred years ago or more was having to deal with it with his back against the wall and no one to rely on but themselves, this gives you a unique perspective that few have seen. Their paper suggests that the flu vaccine is not ideal but due to lack of financial incentive, more beneficial vaccines are not likely to be found.
Clinical Infectious Diseases, Vol. Viral replication induced epithelial and mucosal degradation, and the ensuing innate immune response yield diminished capacity to avert secondary bacterial infections. Recent clinical and experimental data suggest that influenza virus infection may exert its influence beginning in the URT by enhancing susceptibility to bacterial colonization. Was there a synergistic fetal toxicity associated with the two- vaccine season?
The two multidose vials contain 25 mcg of mercury per dose those years. Vaccines for preventing influenza in healthy children. Rev Aug 15; Issue 8: Under 2 it was equal to placebo, no evidence to show reduced mortality, hospital admissions, serious complications or community transmission of influenza.
Assessment of the efficacy and effectiveness of influenza vaccines in healthy children: Lancet Feb 26; Effectiveness of trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine in influenza-related hospitalization in children: Allergy Ashthma Proc Mar-Apr;33 2: Asthmatic children who received the influenza vaccine were also more likely to be hospitalized than those who did not receive it. The severity of asthma did not affect the outcome. Impact of influenza vaccination on seasonal mortality in the US elderly population. Arch Internal Med Feb 14; 3: Cochrane Database Syst Rev ; Issue 7: CD No evidence to support that vaccinating healthcare workers in long-term care facilities showed effect on laboratory proven influenza or complications pneumonia, hospitalization, or death due to pneumonia in those residence over age BMJ May 16; Flu-death figures more PR than science?
BMJ Dec 10; Due to lack of evidence, they do not officially endorse flu vaccine mandates. Also she admits that we will never have good studies due to changing viral strains and vaccines that may not match. Association between seasonal influenza vaccine and pandemic H1N1 illness during Spring-Summer Recipients had increased need for requiring medical attention due to the H1N1 virus. The number is inflated to increase flu vaccination.
Our training is to say that any significant flu like illness is likely coincidence or would have been worse without the vaccine. We are not trained to recognize serum sickness and we are also too busy to report. What I do believe is that most doctors believe in what they do and care about patient outcomes whether they are pro or anti vaccine and please keep in mind that being anti flu vaccine does not necessarily mean one is anti all vaccines.
It is critical for doctors to be open to information for the sake of their patients even if it goes against what "they" taught us. IT isn't easy to go against the grain but it is my Hippocratic oath and this is based in science. It means the pharmaceutical industry has you and your wallet right where they want you.
It means you believed the hype instead of looking at the science. But I do judge an industry that tries to terrify and deceive people into getting a flu vaccine they do not want or need. I made my mom and siblings get the flu vaccine too. Growing up, I never had a flu shot and I also never had the flu.
But as a young adult thinking about starting a family, I listened to my doctor. I was told getting a flu shot was not only good for me and my family, it was essential. And not getting a flu shot? Only irresponsible, unintelligent patients and crackpot parents refused the flu vaccine.
How could there be a problem with the flu vaccine? Everyone was getting one. You could get them at the supermarket. Since my husband and I were starting a family, I made my mom and siblings get the flu shot too. That was just good common sense. We had three children in five years and I insisted every year that family members get the flu shot.
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Sick from the shot. My mom, who had not had the flu since childhood, my brother, and my sister all got high fevers, body aches, and upper respiratory infections, all within 24 hours of the flu vaccine. All lasting a week or two. For three years in a row. I am a conventionally trained medical doctor. I saw my family get sick within a week of the flu vaccine. But I dismissed it.
Nothing to do with the flu vaccine. Besides, I was fine after my first flu vaccine. True, I started getting almost constant colds that lasted four or five months following the flu vaccine. It took me awhile to connect the dots. It took me awhile before I stopped ignoring the clinical evidence in front of me, in my own body, and in my mom and siblings.
Their paper suggests that the flu vaccine is not ideal but due to lack of financial incentive, more beneficial vaccines are not likely to be found. In a separate section is Herbal and Homeopathic First Aid which focuses on injuries more on the Disaster side and gives you another perspective on using natural medicines that you can practice on yourself and family and at the same time will be adding to your knowledge. So just as many people theoretically benefited as didn't on an average year. The greatly higher success rate of flu treatment by osteopathic physicians D. For three years in a row. I personally wish that all people would ban together and stand up against any forced medical treatment, including those who believe in the flu vaccine.
It took me three years but I figured it out. Every year the flu vaccine was making me and my family sick. The sound is deafening. Look at the science. We now know, from both animal and epidemiology studies in humans, that the flu vaccine can and does make you sick. Mandatory flu vaccines for doctors and nurses. I used to work for a group practice. Our practice decided to mandate the flu vaccine. They did not mandate that we eat vegetables with every meal, get optimal amounts of sleep, have our vitamin D levels checked and supplement with sunbathing or supplements if they were below optimal levels, or adopt other health strategies proven to support the immune system.
Why mandate the flu vaccine? That dictate started wheels turning. How important is it really to get the flu shot? What are the real risks and benefits? In medical school we did not look critically at vaccines. We did not study the risk of adverse events , discuss vaccine ingredients , or talk in any detail about efficacy rates. We were not told that the government compensates families with loved ones who have died from a vaccination or suffered other extreme health problems.
Instead, we were taught what amounts to little more than propaganda about vaccines. An infectious disease specialist spends an hour or two with students showing us pictures of miserable children suffering acute side effects from infectious diseases. We can do better than that. No child should ever have to suffer like this! You are supposed to accept it without question and, of course, you do.
No one wants a child to die. We become doctors in order to heal people, and keep them alive. Which means never looking critically at the necessity, efficacy, and safety of any given vaccine. The flu vaccine works and saves thousands of lives every year. Government-advertised death rates from the flu are grossly inflated. We are told that between 30,, die annually of the flu, a dangerous and sometimes lethal illness that affects infants and the elderly the most.
Flu death statistics are usually tallied from the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report database. But deaths from the flu and from pneumonia are lumped together in one category in the MMWR. And is a nonsensical way to capture statistics, as the majority of pneumonia cases have nothing to do with the flu! The death rates from the flu that we are told year after year, repeated ad nauseam in medical training and in the media, are, as Bob Sears, M.
The scientific evidence does not support having a yearly flu vaccine. I contacted the chair of the committee that was recommending flu vaccine mandates at my work and asked him to share the scientific evidence that mandating flu vaccines for health care workers actually reduces death rates from the flu. He could not offer me a single article to read. Then he rattled off several major medical organizations recommending the flu vaccine, including the American Academy of Pediatrics , American Academy of Family Physicians , and the American Heart Association.
So what does this bulldog do? I write them all, asking for a list of scientific studies supporting flu vaccine mandates and requesting the information that proves that mandating the vaccine for doctors and nurses contributes to better outcomes. Some ignored me but some responded. They all said the same thing: So none of the leading health organizations shaping public health policy has scientific information to support the policy to mandate the flu vaccine? How can this be? I had three young children and worked full time. As helpful and important as vaccines may be, the flu vaccine recommendation left me with more questions than answers.