Natural Holistic Health

Just about everyone has had something to say about the alleged upcoming “pandemic” that will reportedly kill millions. Where is the reality here?

According to the National Institute of Health’s website:

“Avian influenza refers to a large group of different influenza viruses that primarily affect birds. On rare occasions, these bird viruses can infect other species, including pigs and humans. The vast majority of avian influenza viruses do not infect humans. An influenza pandemic happens when a new subtype emerges that has not previously circulated in humans.

For this reason, avian H5N1 is a strain with pandemic potential, since it might ultimately adapt into a strain that is contagious among humans. Once this adaptation occurs, it will no longer be a bird virus--it will be a human influenza virus. Influenza pandemics are caused by new influenza viruses that have adapted to humans.

Health experts have been monitoring a new and extremely severe influenza virus – the H5N1 strain – for almost eight years. The H5N1 strain first infected humans in Hong Kong in 1997, causing 18 cases, including six deaths. Since mid-2003, this virus has caused the largest and most severe outbreaks in poultry on record. In December 2003, infections in people exposed to sick birds were identified.

Since then, over 100 human cases have been laboratory confirmed in four Asian countries (Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Viet Nam), and more than half of these people have died. Most cases have occurred in previously healthy children and young adults. Fortunately, the virus does not jump easily from birds to humans or spread readily and sustainably among humans. Should H5N1 evolve to a form as contagious as normal influenza, a pandemic could begin.”

Please notice that this is a hypothetical situation that even the National Institute of Health admits is just a probability. Please notice there is NO PANDEMIC. Nor is one likely to start according to the National Institute of Health.

Let’s put this situation in perspective.

There was a story in the news lately about a young girl dying from a peanut butter allergy after kissing her boyfriend who had just consumed a peanut butter snack food. Is there any truth to this? According to the AAAAI (The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology), roughly 100 people die each year WITHIN THE UNITED STATES from peanut allergic reactions. (http://allergy.healthcentersonline.com/foodallergyintolerance/peanutallergies.cfm)

According to the AAAAI, 1.5 million people have a real allergy to peanuts. Note: peanuts are not a hypothetical allergy.

This real situation would mean that peanuts are TWICE as deadly as the potential bird flu. Why aren’t we rounding up all jars of peanut butter and burning them? Why aren’t we rushing to formulate an expensive pharmaceutical vaccine for this deadly allergy? Why aren’t we seeing this covered on the NEWS almost daily?

Even worse, Life Extension Foundation reports that 783,936 people die per year as a result of intervention of conventional medicine. http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2004/mar2004_awsi_death_01.htm

This real situation would mean that going to your doctor is potentially 15,678% more deadly than hypothetical bird flu. Why aren’t we looking into this? Why are we adding more dangerous drugs to an already deadly situation?

The suspect portion of this story is that there is only ONE new drug – Tamiflu - that is said to combat this disease. It has been rushed to market like so many other pharmaceutical disasters since 1990. There have already been news reports that this drug has been tied to deaths, and has been proven ineffective against this flu. How many more times do we abandon our common sense for scare tactics used for marketing potentially dangerous substances?

Think about it. Every time you put a pharmaceutical into your body, you stand a risk of harming your health. Why expose yourself to risks from a potentially harmful substance when there may be no real or present danger?

To read more:

http://www.mercola.com/blog/2005/oct/18/avian_flu_epidemic_scare_is_a_hoax