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No honest investigation into accidental global release of spanish flu virus Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

It was called the "Spanish Flu" at the time, although that name is not technically accurate. This company took this deadly virus and replicated it, then put it in kits that were part of an everyday influenza identification testing kit. They overnighted these kits through postal mail or courier services to over 4,000 destinations around the world in many different countries. When this became headline news, however, nobody was interested in finding out whether this was a crime. Nobody thought, "Why is this happening?

We would have the spanish flu all over again. That scenario is not at all out of the realm of possibility, especially when the virus sample has been sent to 4,000 destinations. If you play the odds long enough, nature is going to clobber you. Nature will survive and viruses, of course, are not even living. A virus is just basically a pattern of DNA. It doesn't have to be alive to be dangerous. The fact that these were "dead" samples did not make it safer for all of us. Here's another interesting fact in all of this.

The spanish flu should have been over and done with in 1957. We shouldn't have to revisit it again. We've got enough dangerous stuff going around anyway. We've got superbugs in the hospitals. We've got people breeding superbugs in their own kitchens and bathrooms because they're using these antibacterial soaps that actually encourage the creation of resistant bacteria strains. We've got the bird flu virus now becoming a potentially serious threat.

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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. 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.

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Lomatium dis-sectum) was a life-saving remedy for Native American Indians living in the Nevada desert during the spanish flu epidemic that killed over 500,000 people in the United States and 22 million worldwide. A local medical doctor noted that Native American Indians were recovering from the spanish flu by ingesting boiled lomatium root. It is believed that phyto-chemicals found in lomatium root inhibit viruses from replicating and stimulate white blood cell activity.

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Lomatium dissectum is a plant once used by Native Americans to fight spanish flu. Preliminary research shows that lomatium has the ability to prevent viruses from replicating and to stimulate white blood cell activity. When used to treat colds and flu, I often see improvement within 24 hours. In my experience, the only side effect has been an allergic reaction in the form of a measles-like rash in a small percentage of users. This rash disappears a few days after lomatium is discontinued. Eclectic Institute makes a potent product called Lomatium-Osha (800-332-4372, www.eclecticherb.

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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?

Interview with Jon Barron of Baseline Nutritionals on herbal healing, the bird flu and alternative health Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The bird flu right now is mimicking the spanish flu of 1918 and 1919 that killed 50 million people. It kills directly. Now, the interesting thing -- and I predicted this in the newsletter -- is that governments miss the key point here. They talk about vaccinating people and targeting the very old and the very young -- the people that we consider the most vulnerable in normal flus. The interesting thing about the spanish flu and bird flu is that it's more likely to kill healthy people, because the viral load becomes so high, it over-stimulates the immune system.

Bird flu timeline: A history of influenza from 412 BC – AD 2006 Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The "Spanish Flu" circles the globe (though some experts think it may have started in the U.S.). Caused by an H1N1 flu virus, it is the worst influenza pandemic (and subsequently, epidemic) to date. There are more than half a million U.S. deaths; worldwide death estimates range from 20 million to 100 million. According to WebMD, "The pandemic comes before the era of antibiotics -- which are now essential in treating the secondary bacterial infections that often kill flu-weakened patients -- so it's difficult to say whether this flu would have the same dreadful impact in the modern world.

It's an H1N1 virus, and health officials worry that they are seeing the return of the 1918 H1N1 spanish flu pandemic. As the virus is circulating among U.S. pigs, President Gerald Ford calls for a crash vaccination program. Despite delays, a vaccine is made and a quarter of the U.S. population is inoculated. There were 25 deaths from a rare paralytic complication of the vaccination (Guillain-Barre syndrome). Nobody else died of swine flu, which never caused an epidemic. 1977 – Mild Russian influenza epidemic occurs. 1983 – The second HPAI outbreak occurs in the U.S.

Interview with Jon Barron of Baseline Nutritionals on herbal healing, the bird flu and alternative health Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The interesting thing about the spanish flu and bird flu is that it's more likely to kill healthy people, because the viral load becomes so high, it over-stimulates the immune system. The healthier your immune system, the bigger the response. It creates what's called a cytokine storm. Your immune system tears up your lungs and you suffocate. Mike: This is why so many healthy soldiers were dying in 1918. Barron: Yes, and actually pregnant women were the largest group. Women in their prime. You want to build your immune system. I'm not saying, "Don't have a good immune system.

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From the point of view of the virus, this is a successful strategy, and this is exactly what SARS did, exactly what the 1918 spanish flu did and exactly what the bird flu is threatening to do right now. If it is successful, there is no technology in the world that will save you. There is no public health system that will save you. There is no magic drug that will save you. Our hospital beds will be filled virtually overnight. Everyone who is in healthcare knows this to be true. They know we have a certain so-called bandwidth, a certain capacity of hospital beds.

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A local medical doctor noted that Native American Indians were recovering from the spanish flu by ingesting boiled lomatium root. It is believed that phyto-chemicals found in lomatium root inhibit viruses from replicating and stimulate white blood cell activity. J^Super Seven Prescriptions—Flu Super Prescription #1 Homeopathic Combination Flu Remedy At the first signs of a flu, take a dose of the combination flu remedy four times daily for three days. This contains the most common remedies used for the flu. Another alternative is a flu remedy containing Anas barbariae.

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One of the interesting historical notes about lomatium is that it was used by Native Americans during the spanish flu epidemic of 1917-1918. This is the epidemic that killed over 22 million people worldwide, and over 500,000 people in the United States. A doctor noticed that Native American Indians in the Nevada desert were recovering from the spanish flu. He found they were boiling and ingesting lomatium root. He learned how to use the herb from the Indians and began using it, as did other doctors who saw similar healing effects from using lomatium.

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Secondary complications, like bacterial bronchitis and viral pneumonia, are intertwined with severe flu and are considered the probable cause of most of the deaths from the 1918 spanish flu epidemic, a time when antibiotics were still undiscovered. In the one year that the spanish flu was at its peak, one in every one hundred people died from influenza or complications. If such an outbreak were to occur today, a one percent death rate would mean that 60 million people, more than the population of France, would die in one year.

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.

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Crosby calls the 1918 flu "America's forgotten pandemic," noting: "The important and almost incomprehensible fact about the spanish flu is that it killed millions upon millions of people in a year or less. Nothing else—no infection, no war, no famine— has ever killed so many in as short a period. And yet it has never inspired awe, not in 1918 and not since, not among the citizens of any particular land and not among the citizens of the United States." In asking why, Crosby proposes a combination of factors that, he said, acting together accounted for the world's collective amnesia.

The killer had been known then as 'Spanish flu': the term 'swine flu' meant nothing much to laymen off the farm. But the year 1918—more precisely 1918-1919—cited in conjunction with the flu called up vivid images in Washington almost sixty years later. Those images were rooted in folk history and were more powerful because of it." When Sencer and the leading scientists of the day met with President Ford, their discussions were overlaid with the metaphor of the 1918 flu. And that metaphor drove the decision.

But in the rest of the world, the illness came to be called the spanish flu, to Spain's consternation. After all, the other countries of Europe, as well as the United States and countries in Asia, were hit too in that spring of 1918. Maybe the name stuck because Spain, still unaligned, did not censor its news reports, unlike other European countries. And so Spain's flu was no secret, unlike the flu elsewhere. Nonetheless, the scope of the epidemic remains unclear.

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A doctor noticed that Native American Indians in the Nevada desert were recovering from the spanish flu. He found they were boiling and ingesting lomatium root. He learned how to use the herb from the Indians and began using it, as did other doctors who saw similar healing effects from using lomatium. However, the interest in lomatium dramatically decreased after the epidemic ended. Several earlier in vitro studies have shown lomatium to have direct killing effects on many different types of bacteria and fungus, including Candida albicans.

Viral Immunity J. E. Williams, O.M.D. See book keywords and concepts

In the one year that the spanish flu was at its peak, one in every one hundred people died from influenza or complications. If such an outbreak were to occur today, a one percent death rate would mean that 60 million people, more than the population of France, would die in one year. Contagion and Symptoms: Infection from influenza virus is simple, extremely effective, and universal. It occurs from breathing contaminated air containing viral particles spread by coughing and sneezing.

Others are named for the location where they were first isolated, such as the spanish flu from Spain, or the Marburg virus from a town in Germany. Others are given numerical designations like HHV-4 for Epstein-Barr virus, which, as it was originally named after its discoverers, has two names. Some viruses are named after their structure or morphological features, such as corona viruses for the halo of spikes projecting from the virion.

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The Journal of the American Medical AssO' ciation opined that medical authorities should not be alarmed by the flu's nickname, "the spanish flu." That name, the journal wrote, "should not cause any greater importance to be attached to it, nor arouse any greater fear than would influenza without the new name." Moreover, the journal said, the flu "has already practically disappeared from the Allied troops." Yet as the flu spread, the city did take a few precautions. On September 18, its health officials began a public campaign against coughing, spitting, and sneezing.

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It not only affected Europeans, but an unbelievable 80 percent of the United States Army's death toll was from the spanish flu that killed 43,000 American soldiers between 1917 and 1919—nearly as many as died in combat in the Korean War some thirty years later. Viruses not only infect humans but all living things including plants, animals, birds, and sea creatures. In 1988, seal plague virus killed 2,800 seals in the United Kingdom; a similar disease had already devastated the rare freshwater seals of Lake Baikal in Siberia in 1987.

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