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POSTED: September 16, 2009
Perelandra Health Watch Bulletin NEW SOBERING SWINE FLU INFORMATION
by Machaelle Wright
Perelandra, Center for Nature Research
It occurred to me a few days ago that I have been solely focused on urging you folks to take FSBS Plus and the new 09-10 Flu Season Balancing Solution and not talking about the MBP Balancing Solutions in the Pandemic Preparedness Kit. Tuesday night I read the following article and I felt I needed to remind you about the important eight MBP Balancing Solutions in the Kit: Immune, Lymphatic, Cell, Digestive, Endocrine, Nervous, Respiratory, Urinary. Please consider this the most gentle of reminders and not some elaborate sales pitch. I'm just trying to give you all the help I can so that you can make good decisions about how you want to move through this pandemic.
About the article:
This is a sobering article, but I think it is important that I pass on to you the good, the bad and the ugly informed and helpful swine flu information. I think it is also important that everyone understand what a serious situation swine flu is to those who are at risk. After the article, I included two comments people emailed to us in response to my recent EarthSave: A Pandemic Pep Talk. Their information and swine flu experience might be helpful to you and I wanted to pass them along.
The article and the Perelandra EarthSave responses are clearly pointing out that we need to pay attention to what's happening with our lungs should we become infected. Also, many experts are now saying that coughing is the first sign of an H1N1 infection, not fever. So, heads up out there!
Swine flu deaths show this flu is different: experts say
H1N1 virus "looks like avian flu on steroids," expert says
Reuters
updated 5:06 p.m. ET, Tues., Sept . 15, 2009
WASHINGTON – Autopsies on people who have died from the new pandemic H1N1 flu show this virus is different from seasonal influenza, even if it has not yet caused more deaths, experts told a meeting on Tuesday.
Americans who died from swine flu had infections deep in their lungs, Dr. Sherif Zaki of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told a meeting of flu experts, including damage to the alveoli — the structures in the lung that deliver oxygen to the blood.
This in turn caused what is known as acute respiratory distress syndrome — an often fatal development that leaves patients gasping for breath.
The World Health Organization has confirmed 3,205 deaths globally from swine flu but experts agree all estimates of the extent of the pandemic are grossly understated because so few patients are ever actually tested.
Seasonal flu kills, too — about 250,000 to 500,000 cases a year globally, according to the WHO. But not in the same way as swine flu, which unlike seasonal flu frequently causes severe disease in young adults and children.
"It is very rarely you see what we call diffuse alveolar damage in fatal seasonal influenza," Zaki told a meeting sponsored by the U.S. Institute of Medicine, which advises government on health matters.
Seasonal flu causes bronchitis and other upper respiratory disease. But Zaki, the chief infectious disease pathologist at CDC, said the new virus had burrowed into the lungs of the 90 or so people he examined after they died, and they had huge amounts of the virus in their blood.
"This is almost exactly what we see with avian flu," Zaki said. "This looks like avian flu on steroids."
Experimental flu drugs
Dr. Yoshi Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin said tests in monkeys showed the virus lives and replicates 1,000-fold better in the lungs than does seasonal flu. . . .
Zaki said 90 percent of the fatalities he looked at had some condition that would predispose them to serious disease. They had a median age of 38 and one victim was a two-month-old infant who died within a day of getting sick.
Nearly half — 46 percent — were obese, many had fatty liver disease, 27 percent had heart disease and 22 percent had asthma, he said.
Dr. Guillermo Ruiz-Palacios of Mexico's National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition said many Mexican patients with severe disease were also obese. In addition, patients came in late for treatment and many were infected with a second common virus, called parainfluenza virus.
Fewer than a third of the U.S. deaths, 29 percent, had a so-called secondary bacterial infection, usually Streptococcus pneumoniae, Zaki said.
Ruiz-Palacios also said the new virus can be found in the urine and feces of patients, something that may affect how it spreads.
We have just come through the wave of H1N1 in the Southern hemisphere and it is as you describe. Mild to moderate in most people.
We had our deaths and they did hit children with cerebral palsy, asthmatics and the grossly obese — it seems to me to be any person who had restricted breathing for any reason - including general debility in the old.
It is highly contagious. And I noticed a characteristic of the virus was that it took to your lungs very rapidly. You would have a mild illness that you thought was a cold and within 2 days you would have bronchitis. I am a healthy middleaged woman practising all the precautions you mention but exposed to the general public in my work and small children in my home environment. I got bronchitis and needed antibiotics after getting the virus. Same happened with other people who got sick around me.
Another characteristic of this flu is that you don't necessarily get a fever — in fact if you look up how it manifested in Mexico up to 30% of people didn't have a fever.
So this virus is different from the usual flu.
Anyway — that's my 2 bobs worth.
Best wishes,
J.B., New Zealand
Note from Machaelle:
Continue taking FSBS Plus and the Pandemic Kit MBPs twice daily when you are on any needed conventional medication during an H1N1 bout. It is vital that your beneficial microbes be restored back to balance quickly.
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I think I had it but because of FSBS+ and the MBPs, it ran it's course quickly. Two days of fever, 3rd day ok, some respiratory stuff but ran through it just fine. Oh and Tomato, Celery [Perelandra Garden Essences],V1s, B1s [Perelandra Nature Program Essences] needed them all!!!
~ L.C., Loveland, Ohio
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