Author: Byron J Richards

Our government is trumpeting how on the ball it is to get its strategic stockpile of Tamiflu out to the public. What they aren’t boasting about is that their supply is about ready to expire. The other thing they aren’t explaining to the public is the risk of delirium and suicide for children taking Tamiflu.

During 2006 our government received at various points in the year 20 million doses of Tamiflu at a cost of 2 billion dollars to prepare for the avian bird flu pandemic that never came. The product has a three year shelf life, though I would wonder a little bit about how good it is that close to expiration.

Regardless, Tamiflu will only work, if it works at all, on the first wave of individuals taking it. After that, the Swine flu will mutate around it. This resistance to Tamiflu or other anti-viral drugs will occur relatively quickly, and long before any vaccine is developed. Our government is very poorly prepared, contrary to their assertions.

It should be pointed out that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) added a warning label to Tamiflu back in November of 2006, based on numerous reports of delirium and suicide mostly in children under 17. Side effects occurred within 24-48 hours of taking the drug and included panic attacks, delusions, delirium, convulsions, depression, loss of consciousness, and even suicide.

Back in 2006 the FDA said ““We are concerned that when/if the use of this drug increases in the U.S. … there may be increasing cases of adverse consequence in the U.S.” That time appears to be now.

The revised FDA warning states, “People with the flu, particularly children, may be at an increased risk of self-injury and confusion shortly after taking Tamiflu and should be closely monitored for signs of unusual behavior.”

That is a very weak warning considering that three normal children jumped/fell to their death after taking the drug – one even leaving a suicide note. Other children were struck with psychosis, delusions, and paranoia – all in formerly normal children.
Our government is planning to push widespread Tamiflu use for millions of Americans, including children – and so far I haven’t heard one warning to parents about the actual risks of giving this drug to their children.

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What you need to know – Swine Flu Podcast & Articles Byron J. Richards, Founder/Director of Wellness Resources, Inc, is a Board-Certified Clinical Nutritionist and a world renowned natural health expert.Tamiflu Causes Delirium and Suicide in Children

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Author: Nate Gillespie

Sometimes it seems that all is new in the world. New developments in science and technology roll out at a staggering pace, revolutionizing our day-to-day lives and enticing us with the promise of allowing us to boldly go where no man has gone before. (Or, at the very least, enticing us with ridiculously cool CGI effects in the new Star Trek movie.) Sometimes it seems like we’ll soon all be communicating with each other only via Twitter.

But then sometimes it seems like the world isn’t so new at all. This spring, for example, we have suddenly found the global shipping industry held hostage by pirates. Yes, pirates. And here we thought that pirates (at least of the non-Hollywood variety) had gone the way of the dodo about 300 years ago.

More seriously, we suddenly find ourselves threatened by outbreaks of pandemic swine flu. The flu as a major public health danger, not as a mere inconvenience? This takes us back to the bad old days; an influenza outbreak in 1919 killed more people than World War I, and the epidemic diseases that spread in the wake of the Columbian Exchange wiped out as much as 90% of the indigenous population of the Americas. Let’s just hope that the swine flu panic of 2009 doesn’t prove so devastating.

The unexpected (and unwanted) return of piracy and pandemic influenza to become issues of major social concern in 2009 only reminds us, as Faulkner said, that “the past is never dead. In fact, it’s not even past.” The human story is a long one, its plot stretched out even farther than those of http://www.shmoop.com/intro/literature/george-eliot/middlemarch.html”” title=””Middlemarch””>Middlemarch or War and Peace. Long-forgotten characters from its early chapters (pirates!) have an odd way of turning up again at the end. Maybe pirates and pandemics are here to remind us that, Twitter notwithstanding, we all have to bear (in Hamlet’s words) “the whips and scorns of time.”

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Shmoop is an online study guide for English Literature, Poems and American history. It’s a perfect aid for students and teachers seeking guidance with advance study, essays and writing papers. Its content is written by Ph.D. and Masters students from top universities, like Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard, and Yale who have also taught at the high school and college levels. It promises to make learning and writing more fun and relevant. Teachers and students should feel confident to cite Shmoop as a source in essays and papers.

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Author: aurembs

The year 2009 is bearing witness to what could very well be one of the worst pandemic attacks, the Swine flu. The World Health Organization (WHO) has already issued a high alert and the situation is said to worsen. As general public, there is nothing much that we can do to contain the virus. That doesn’t mean you can be complacent about the entire incident and carry on with your routine life. You will never know when you will become a victim of this dreaded virus. Don’t you want to protect your loved ones from being infected? Then, it is high time you took care of some of the basic swine flu protection procedures.

If someone you know is affected by this deadly virus, the only way you identify is through its symptoms, which includes chillness, fever, sore throat, severe headache, muscle pains, coughing, weakness, and general discomfort. This virus is highly contagious and spreads seamlessly through air. This means, even the air you breathe can be totally unsafe and might even carry this deadly virus. Just because this disease spreads through air, you can’t stop breathing right? So, in order to keep you safe from this virus contaminated air, Tupelo Super Store has come out with Disposable Particulate Respirators and Go-Kit Flu Protection Pak cases.

The Disposable Particulate Respirators are approved by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and fall under the Type N95 Particulate Respirator. These Disposable Particulate Respirators comply with the guidelines set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). You must encourage your family to use the Type N95 Particulate Respirator in order to protect them from Swine flu. Another added advantage with this N95 Particulate Respirator is that you can use them for controlling your exposure to Tuberculosis, SARS, and Avian Influenza. This latex-free Disposable Particulate Respirator uses an Exclusive Magic Arch technology that ensures positive facial lock, thus preventing the entry of contaminated air.

Another method of swine flu protection is to wash your hands with alcohol-based hand sanitizers frequently, in order to prevent the entry of germs into your body. Bearing this in mind, Tupelo Super Store is ready to help you out with the Go-Kit Flu Protection Pak. The Go-Kit Flu Protection Pak is the ideal swine flu protection kit you can get your family. You can make the best use of a high-filtration ear-loop mask, a clinical thermometer, and two antiseptic hand wash that come with this Go-Kit Flu Protection Pak.

So, go ahead and protect your loved ones from the deadly virus, with these swine flu protection solutions from Tupelo Super Store.

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H1N1 Fizzle?

Author: Ernie Fitzpatrick

So, have we seen thw worst? has the press once again HYPED a story for their benefit (selling advertising and what newspapers are still viable)? Of will this strain go dormant for a few months and come back stronger than ever next winter which was the case in 1916?

Mexico’s health secretary said the swine flu epidemic in his country “is now in its declining phase,” even as the U.S. and five other countries in Europe and Latin America reported new cases Sunday.

Is the “shelf life” of this story over now?

China quarantined more than 70 Mexican travelers and Hong Kong isolated 350 people in a hotel as a precaution even though no new swine flu infections appeared in Asia. In Egypt, authorities’ attempt to kill all pigs as a precaution against the disease prompted pig owners to clash with police who were helping to seize their animals for slaughter.

Now we’re killing PIGS!

Field investigators at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday it appears the new H1N1 virus outbreak may be more widespread and milder in Mexico than it first appeared.

So far the swine flu virus has behaved like seasonal flu as it has spread to 14 countries, carried mostly by travelers from Mexico.

The World Health Organization says it cannot be stopped, but has no immediate plans to declare a pandemic — a global outbreak of a new and serious disease.

Field investigators at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday it appears the new H1N1 virus outbreak may be more widespread and milder in Mexico than it first appeared.

So far the swine flu virus has behaved like seasonal flu as it has spread to 14 countries, carried mostly by travelers from Mexico. The World Health Organization says it cannot be stopped, but has no immediate plans to declare a pandemic — a global outbreak of a new and serious disease.

Everyone is hoping this flu strain will just fizzle out. Influenza is a promiscuous virus, readily swapping genes with other flu viruses in a person’s or animal’s body. It also mutates constantly. These factors mean it can quickly grow worse or become milder. It could at any time lose its ability to transmit easily from one person to another and join the mix of regular seasonal flu strains.

Soon we will know- the short term answer, until next winter.

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As a spiritual-futurist, I have a BA degree majoring in history. One cannot know the future without knowing the past which holds clues to what is on the horizon. The world is in such a rapid expansion of knowledge that we are close to entering a tipping point that will forever change earth as we know it.

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Author: Bill Daniel

Dear all:

Fears of a global swine flu pandemic are growing with new infections in the United States, Mexico and now worldwide. Is swine flu ‘the big one’ or a flu that fizzles? All people are asking these questions and get concerned, including you all.

But don’t be afraid, all my colleagues in HandbagVIP.

Remember when 2003 SARS affected, all around the street, all people were warding mask, nobody dared go out, and the whole street are empty. The whole company of HandbagVIP are there at Canton Fair and with the foreign buyers who visit the fair, lower to be only 30% than past years. We were so cared and felt very depressed in the mind at the beginning.

The worse came later. I was isolated then due to fever and all the people around me in the company are scared, including me. I told myself that I was ready for any worst case. When I was in hospital I found some of the people like me died.

But finally SARS is cured and all our life go back to normal. This is due to decisive and effective action of the government. What I learned from this experience is that our social system has got enough experience in curing SARS, and we have experienced it one time so we know all will be ok by the medical treatment. Our business grows 300% after the Canton Fair, since lots of other factories & companies did not attend the show, due to the fear and lots of buyers turned to us as suppliers—some of their original suppliers went bankrupt after that actually.

Now, seems the situation happened again. We get not SARS but swine flu this time, and again HandbagVIP is now in Canton Fair. Let us be cool and calm, we are sure we can go through it. —At the least, according to the report, best thing about swine flu, is we know what virus it is, when in 2003 we did not even knew what SARS is.

Lastly let us remember: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

CEO

Bill Daniel

www.Handbagvip.com

This is an internal email from Bill to all staffs of HandbagVIP April 27, 2009.

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