Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 Bill and Melinda Gates, two fellow boomers, have made the fight against infectious diseases the primary focus of their philanthropy for a reason: It is one of the most important global issues that our generation must address.
Taking on global warming
Addressing the challenge of infectious diseases also means taking action against global warming. |
Ray D. Strand
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 In the early 1900s people primarily died of infectious diseases. The four leading causes of death in the U.S. back then were pneumonia, tuberculosis, diphtheria, and influenza, and people had a life expectancy of a little more than forty-three years. But thanks to the discovery of antibiotics and advances in their development during the second half of this century, deaths due to infectious diseases declined dramatically, even after the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 One thing we know: the principal cause in the decrease of mortality has been the reduction in infectious diseases. Since the mid-nineteenth-century, according to McKeown, three quarters of the abatement in mortality in Great Britain came from such control. The McKinleys' conclusion for twentieth-century America is comparable. In 1900, about 40% of all deaths were caused by eleven infectious diseases, 16% from three chronic conditions (heart disease, cancer, and stroke), the remainder from other causes. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 We've looked at the way we've evolved to resist or manage the threat posed by specific infectious diseases, like malaria. But what we haven't discussed—yet—is how all those infectious diseases are evolving right along with us. Make no mistake—they are, and for the exact same reason that we've been evolving for millions of years too. At the end of the day, every living thing—bacteria, protozoa, lions, tigers, bears, and your baby brother—shares two hardwired imperatives: Survive. Reproduce. |
Ron Garner
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 Further, adverse effects are amply documented and are far more significant to public health than any adverse effects of infectious diseases. Immunizations, including those practiced on babies, not only did not prevent any infectious diseases, they caused more suffering and more deaths than have any other human activity in the entire history of medical intervention. |
| Here is how Viera Scheibner summarizes her research:
I did not find it difficult to conclude that there is no evidence whatsoever that vaccine of any kind - but especially those against childhood diseases - are effective in preventing the infectious diseases they are supposed to prevent. Further, adverse effects are amply documented and are far more significant to public health than any adverse effects of infectious diseases. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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| This means not only increasing efforts to fight infectious diseases, but also redoubling efforts to combat famine, because infection and malnutrition are part of a vicious circle in which infection can precipitate malnutrition by affecting the absorption of nutrients and the depletion of nutrients can cause further infection. Bill and Melinda Gates, two fellow boomers, have made the fight against infectious diseases the primary focus of their philanthropy for a reason: It is one of the most important global issues that our generation must address. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 BECOMING "IMMUNE TO AGING"
The overall health-promoting effect of polyphenols may account for green tea's role in promoting longevity, particularly since these polyphenols help the immune system function more effectively. infectious diseases are not a concern of the past. Although vaccines, antibiotics, and other infection-fighting medications have been developed, infections continue to plague mankind. Health agencies warn that death from infectious diseases rose 58 percent between 1980 and 1992. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 With world air travel expected to grow at about 5 percent a year for at least the next twenty years, the global crisis of newly emerging infectious diseases is unlikely to disappear anytime soon.
Others argue for the impact of global warming and hotter weather on growing rates of infectious diseases. In Al Gore's 2006 movie An Inconvenient Truth, a disturbing chart cites rising rates of illnesses, among them SARS, malaria, Ebola virus, and avian flu. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 If testing is positive, both of these agents can be treated by an infectious diseases specialist.
Chronic Sinusitis
Some people with chronic fatigue or widespread pain will mention that they also have other recurring symptoms, or their past medical record may make note of such conditions. For example, it's not uncommon for a chronic fatigue patient to report having had repeated attacks of sinusitis. When this is the case, I ask the patient if he or she has problems with stuffed nose, postnasal drip, and pain or pressure in the face. |
| If the fluid is positive, I send the patient to an expert in infectious diseases for treatment.
The Workup for Irritable Bowel
Just as your doctor will order a series of tests looking for the causes of chronic fatigue or pain, he or she will also order tests if you've been diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Although the diagnosis of IBS is based on symptoms, your doctor will probably want to rule out serious gut diseases that can produce similar symptoms. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 Penicillin has practically eliminated deaths from infectious diseases. Before 1942, if you got cut deeply, you were pretty much a goner. The Staphylococcus areus bacteria that normally live peacefully on the surface of your skin would get into your blood supply, penetrate your bones, set up shop, and start replicating themselves until you were dead. In the Civil War, doctors routinely hacked off the limbs of anyone with a deep-cut injury, and pneumonia was often fatal. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| Three out of four sailors never made it back home, mostly as a result of scurvy and infectious diseases. Ironically, many more might have made it back home alive if they had drunk their cargo instead of just transporting it. The vitamin C in green tea prevents scurvy, and tea's polyphenols boost the body's immune function so that it can better fight infectious disease.
By the 1630s, each Dutch vessel returning to Europe from China routinely carried several large pottery jars of tea. Accordingly, there are records of people drinking tea in Amsterdam, London, and Paris as early as 1635. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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 While our grandparents and great-grandparents' medical care was relatively primitive compared to the care available today, and while their vulnerability to infectious diseases made them less healthy than you in many ways, the quality of their diet and their physical activity levels were often far more health promoting than yours.
I want you to think about this confluence of too much food and too little activity to help you appreciate why it can be difficult to lose weight. It's not about "willpower"—it's about outsmarting a culture that's trying to bulk you up. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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| This means they have received training similar to that of the internist or primary-care provider but then continued their studies to learn more about a specific area of medicine, such as rheumatology or infectious diseases. Being integrative means that a doctor should see the patient in a broader scope—as a person with a medical problem living in a community that produces both stress and pleasure, as a person living in an environment that could be pleasant or horrible, and as a person living in a world filled with challenges ranging from terrorism to global warming. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 National Institute of Allergy and infectious diseases. "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome," May 2004. http:Wwww.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/cfs.htm.
National Women's Health Information Center. "Vaginal Yeast Infections," July 2002. http://www .4woman.gov/faq/yeastinfect.htm.
Prevention's Ultimate Guide to Women's Health and Wellness. Emmaus, PA: Rodale Books, 2002.
Shaw, G., et al. "Neural Tube Defects Associated with Maternal Periconceptional Dietary Intake of Simple Sugars and Glycemic Index." American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 78, no. 5 (2003): 972-78.
Somer, Elizabeth. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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 INDICATIONS AND USAGE
Pasque flower is used for diseases and functional disorders of genital organs, inflammatory and infectious diseases of skin and mucosa, diseases and functional disorders of the gastrointestinal tract and the urinary tract, neuralgia, migraine, and general restlessness.
CONTRAINDICATIONS
The drag is contraindicated during pregnancy.
PRECAUTIONS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS
General: No health hazards or side effects are known in conjunction with the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages of the dehydrated drag. |
Ray D. Strand
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| But thanks to the discovery of antibiotics and advances in their development during the second half of this century, deaths due to infectious diseases declined dramatically, even after the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s.1
As we move into the twenty-first century, we find people primarily suffering and dying from what are known as chronic degenerative diseases. These include coronary artery disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, arthritis, macular degeneration, cataracts, Alzheimer's dementia, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, and rheumatoid arthritis.2 The list goes on and on. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| Health agencies warn that death from infectious diseases rose 58 percent between 1980 and 1992. From influenza to HIV, there are some scary bugs out there, and the situation is getting worse, not better. Among the causes of the worsening situation are lifestyles that put people at higher risk of infection, noncompliance with use of prescribed antibiotics, and the emergence of microorganisms that are resistant to antibiotics. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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| Widespread Pain, Bodily Tenderness, and Fibromyalgia
Unlike people whose fatigue begins with flulike symptoms and who often are sent to doctors specializing in infectious diseases, those reporting a slow progression of bodywide pain usually wind up seeing doctors who specialize in rheumatic diseases, problems related to the ligaments or joints. This referral pattern
The diagnosis of FM requires a person to have symptoms (widespread pain) and signs (patient reports pain in eleven or more of the eighteen points depicted when pressed with 9 pounds of pressure). |
Earl L. Mindell, RPh, PhD with Virginia Hopkins, MA
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| To add insult to injury, we have lost the war on infectious diseases, even with all these antibiotics and better hygiene. According to a recent press conference held by the American Medical Association, infectious diseases have reemerged as a serious health threat. Just in the past decade, death from infectious diseases has risen a stunning 58 percent worldwide. Even after subtracting the deaths caused by the HIV virus, it's still up by 22 percent. Most of these deaths are caused by infections in the lungs and the blood that are resistant to antibiotics. |
Roberta Bivins
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 If epidemic and infectious diseases could not yet be cured, they could in theory be prevented by state-sanctioned and -funded public health measures designed to fight the filth and contagion of germs. Despite continuing pressure from 'alternative' medicine, and from conservatives within orthodox medicine itself, by the end of the nineteenth century, the new 'scientific' medicine was perceived by a growing number of doctors and patients alike as both authoritative and powerful.
The twentieth century saw what might be called the industrialization of medicine. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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| CONTRAINDICATIONS
Ergot is contraindicated in peripheral blood flow disorders such as Raynaud's disease, Thrombangitis obliterans, severe arteriosclerotic vascular changes, liver function disorders, severe coronary insufficiency, kidney damage, pregnancy, nursing, infectious diseases, sepsis, hypertonia, and severe hypotonia.
PRECAUTIONS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS
No health hazards are known in conjunction with the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages. |
Bottom Line Health
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| National Institute of Allergy and infectious diseases (NIAID)
6610 Rockledge Dr., MSC 6612 Bethesda, MD 20892-6612 301-496-5717 www.niaid.nih.gov
¦ National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
One AMS Circle Bethesda, MD 20892-3675 877-22-NIAMS (226-4267), 301-495-4484 TTY: 301-565-2966 www.niams.nih.gov
¦ National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases
Building 31, Room 9A04 31 Center Dr., MSC 2560 Bethesda, MD 20892-2560 301-496-3583 www.niddk. nih.gov
¦ National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
6001 Executive Blvd. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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| Patients with extensive skin injuries, acute skin diseases, feverish or infectious diseases, cardiac insufficiency or hypertonia should not use the drug as a bath additive.
TEREBINTHINAE AETHEROLEUM RECTIFICATUM
General: No health hazards or side effects are known in conjunction with the proper external administration of designated therapeutic dosages. Resorptive poisonings, such as kidney and central nervous system damage, are however possible with large-area administration. |
Ron Garner
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| It has been found to act as an antimicrobial agent against at least 140 infectious diseases, among them: anthrax, athlete's foot, and urinary tract infections, Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, hepatitis, viral meningitis, pneumonia, salmonella, smallpox, tuberculosis, vaginal yeast infection, and many more. Olive leaf extract is taken in capsule form.
Tea Tree Oil
Tea tree oil is made from Australian tea tree leaves. Australian Aborigines have used it for centuries by applying crushed leaves to heal cuts, bruises, and skin infections and by inhaling vapors from crushed leaves to treat colds. |
| They found that infectious diseases, which were rampant in Europe even a century ago, had declined up to 90% before any vaccine had been used in large sections of the population. Diseases such as bubonic plague and scarlet fever disappeared entirely on their own without any vaccination programs at all. These reductions were largely attributed to improvements in nutritional and sanitary measures.
In brief, some of Miller's findings are:17
The polio death rate was decreasing on its own before the vaccine was introduced (1923 to 1953). |
| Immunizations, including those practiced on babies, not only did not prevent any infectious diseases, they caused more suffering and more deaths than have any other human activity in the entire history of medical intervention.16
While modern medicine leads us to believe the reduction of epidemic diseases like smallpox and polio is due to the introduction of mass vaccination programs, the research of Miller and Scheibner found this to be totally unsubstantiated. |
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| Paul Offit, chief of infectious diseases at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
"The problem was the earlier vaccines didn't provide long-lasting immunity," Offit says. "Frequent boosting was required."
Meningitis is a viral or bacterial infection of the membranes and cerebrospinal fluid that surround the brain and spinal cord. It is spread by coughing, sneezing, kissing or sharing drinking glasses, experts say.
Symptoms include a fever of 101°F or higher, a stiff neck, a purple rash, vomiting and headache. |
| Paul Offit, MD, chief of infectious diseases, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Health experts are recommending that children receive breakthrough vaccines for meningitis as well as for whooping cough {pertussis).
Both vaccines are safe enough to be used by 11-year-old children, providing youngsters with protection that they have not had up until this point, doctors say. |
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