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[Fitness Town] Concentrated Elderberry By Barbara Ashcroft | Fitness Town: Madeleine Mumcuoglu, spent a lifetime of research looking into the health benefits of elderberry, and developed a natural formula containing a potent antiviral compound, Antivirin, isolated from the black elderberry, and three flavonoids-naturally occurring plant oxidants. She first tested her research on patients during the Southern Israel flu epidemic of 1992/93.

[Unsilent Generation] Swine Flu: Who Will Bring Home the Bacon? « Unsilent Generation: In a cautionary statement the FDA noted 12 deaths among children, and said there are reports of psychiatric disturbances, including hallucinations, along with heart and lung disorders. Roche, the manufacturer, is quoted by the BBC as stating that the rate of deaths and psychiatric problems is no higher among those taking its medication than among those with flu.

[Western Courier] Swine flu outbreak: financial conspiracy - Opinion: The current situation with the swine flu is just the next in a line of would-be pandemics. While some say the World Health Organization's actions are simply cautionary, the drastic measures the organization is taking are causing a .

[End Game Now] When Pigs Fly Flu”¦ Pandemic or Not?: As you know, some of you know, the seasonal vaccine is composed of three components, and one of these components is also called H1N1 and this virus has been circulated in the human population for many years, but it is quite different from the one that is circulating now. But in order to assess whether vaccination with seasonal vaccine would be effective or not, serum from vaccinated people has been tested by the US CDC in Atlanta, and for the time being, the results show that there is very little chance that seasonal vaccines as they are used in their vast majority in all countries of the world, would be effective against this particular virus.

[Living Clean] Swine Flu Symptoms and Causes: This makes it deadlier than previous swine flu outbreaks, and it’s the reason why many countries around the world are alarmed by the epidemic. According to the World Health Organization report, there has been one confirmed death from swine flu in the United States, out of the 91 confirmed cases.

[About.com Patient Empowerment] Understanding a Pandemic - What Are the Phases or Stages of a ...: If we understand what pandemic means, we can be better prepared to deal with one. Further, fear develops more quickly, although in the long-run, fear may mean people take preventive and cautionary steps more readily.

[statism watch] statism watch » Blog Archive » Lessons of 1976: swine flu, fear ...: The cases were quickly pinned on the vaccine and the U.S. government spent $90-million settling lawsuits. (Reports later surfaced of a few mild cases of GBS in Canada.) In the wake of Watergate and the Vietnam War, many U.S. citizens were prepared to believe that officials were trying to hide serious complications when they insisted the vaccine was safe.

[Politics] Biden's flu safety tips: Don't go anywhere or do anything ...: The advice he is giving family members is the same advice the Administration is giving to all Americans: that they should avoid unnecessary air travel to and from Mexico. If they are sick, they should avoid airplanes and other confined public spaces, such as subways.

[OpEdNews - RSS Feed for Author: Rob Kall] OpEdNews » Swine Flu-- Normal or Malignant?: Yesterday, another radical futurist sent me an e-mail that mentioned a very apt facetious name for the recent outbreak of Swine Flu that's getting so much attention right now: "Pig Plague". And one of the headlines on the front page of today's Oakland Tribune confirmed my suspicions that the present Swine Flu outbreak is indeed another 9/11 type situation -- a relatively minor disaster being blown out of all proportion by power elites to justify various measures that will help them retain control over most of the world's political and economic institutions.

[RealitySandwich - Home Page] Reality Sandwich | Swine Flu's Pandemic Path: on context: for all of the historical context ST Frequency provided, there is none which puts the avian flu or swine flu "national security threats" in the perspective of other disease epidemics which we consider "normal," and apparently (and rationally) ....

[ScienceBlogs : News] Swine flu: a quick overview--and new New York and Kansas cases ...: This statement "After all, H1N1 is a common serotype, so additional molecular testing is needed to determine that it's "swine flu" versus "human" H1N1" is in conflict with CDC posts such as this: "Since March 2009, a number of confirmed human cases of a new strain of swine influenza A (H1N1) virus infection in the U.S. and internationally have been identified. An investigation into these cases is ongoing.

[Medical Ethics blog] Flu ethics articles available free - Medical Ethics blog: Previously, he covered banking industry and agriculture, served as deputy business editor and was a member of the Star's editorial board. Laidlaw is also the author of Secret Ingredients, a book on Canada's food industry.

[MoJo Blog Posts: mojo] Swine Flu: Bringing Home the Bacon | Mother Jones: In a cautionary statement the FDA noted 12 deaths among children, and said there are reports of psychiatric disturbances, including hallucinations, along with heart and lung disorders. Roche, the manufacturer, is quoted by the BBC as stating that the rate of deaths and psychiatric problems is no higher among those taking its medication than among those with flu.

[Anderson Cooper 360] Anderson Cooper 360: Blog Archive - Swine Flu FAQs « - Blogs from ...: All health care facilities should have a flu clinic where anyone having symptoms can go without going to primaries and urgent cares for I have found whenever I go to those with a flu, they never want to test, and just tell you to get rest, so I hope these front line Drs are being told to take people seriously and not do their usual nothing when someone is ill. Last year I had a fever, congestion, cough etc for 3 months and I went after 2 weeks then after a month and then 3 months, each time telling them that I had a prolonged fever, cough, lung congestion and pains, and they kept saying it is probably viral go home and rest and refused to give me antibiotics, and the 3rd time after 3 months of hell, a got an urgent care Dr who agreed to try an antibiotic and in 2 days my symptoms cleared and in a week I was all better.

[Whole Life Times Blog] Whole Life Times Blog » Blog Archive » Swine Fervor: The World Health Organization raised the Swine Flu level alert, but that doesn’t mean we should panic. There are basic steps we can take to protect ourselves, some recommended by the highest authority in the country””the president himself””who went on air to endorse the cautionary procedures we all learned at mama’s knee: “Wash your hands when you shake hands, cover your mouth when you cough.

[ScienceBlogs : News] Swine flu: what did you expect? : Effect Measure: Hence these cases are not what we expect and it is an outbreak. If it turned out that there had been the same number of cases in Mexico but from many different known viruses we might look for another explanation, for example, a change in insurance that changed care seeking behavior so cases were counted that weren't counted before.

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