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Do we have a killer on the loose in Ukraine?

Much of the talk in the last few months has been about a swine flu vaccines and the after effects and side effects. An area that has been ignored is the long feared possible mutation of H1N1 with another virus leading to a nightmare scenario. Just this week I’ve become aware of a potential problem in the Ukraine.

The hitherto mild symptoms associated with H1N1 may have been replaced by what appears to be a mutated virus that actually seems to be killing many people. The virus is still under examination here in the UK and I’m hopeful that the results will be made public later this week.

The sad thing is that none of the treatments currently being purchased by governments at a cost of billions of dollars are either appropriate or effective. TamiFlu and other post infection treatments are seemingly ineffective and because this may be mutated virus it is highly likely that the vaccine that has been purchased will be completely ineffective.

There are however some very simple things that we can do to improve the performance of our immune system:

• increase vitamin D. intake to something in the regional 5000
• increase the amount of biologically active sugars we are consuming
• Add foods that are named to support the immune system i.e. garlic, only leaf extract, echinacea,

Prevention must be our first port of call but when this virus hits we need to have a well regulated immune system.

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Teen in Wheel Chair after Swine Flu Vaccine

This report, while very sad for the family, is hardly unexpected. Please think very seriously about the risks, that we are often not told about, associated with the swine flu vaccine. Remember there are many alternatives that support, rather than stress, the immune system.

Boy diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome, but CDC says no clear link

By JoNel Aleccia

Health writer

updated 3:06 p.m. CT, Wed., Nov . 11, 2009

A 14-year-old Virginia boy is weak and struggling to walk after coming down with a reported case of Guillain-Barre syndrome within hours after receiving the H1N1 vaccine for swine flu.

Jordan McFarland, a high school athlete from Alexandria, VA., left Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children Tuesday night in a wheelchair nearly a week after developing severe headaches, muscle spasms and weakness in his legs following a swine flu shot. He will likely need the assistance of a walker for four to six weeks, plus extensive physical therapy. Continue Reading…

Swine Flu – long term effects

At Natural Way Health we are very careful not to ‘make claims’ about what are effectively foods and herbal supplements but there are many who do make claims and the unwelcome and unjustified criticism can be quite drastic. Some dramatic things may be happening in the USA around the whole subject of the food supplement industry and although we are not seeing similar things in the UK yet – similar things have happened in Denmark only last year. Food supplements do not cure or heal swine flu but they do support a healthy immune system. However, the FDA and the WHO are inconsistent in some ways and if only they applied the same standards to the pharmaceutical industry as they are aggressively applying to the food supplement industry we might have a better healthier population. Consider:

• swine flu vaccines. We know they have had very limited testing and their efficacy over the short and long term has yet to be proven. We may look back at this time in our history and ask, with hindsight, did we really need to vaccinate all those children?
• Olive Leaf Extract or Garlic and other compounds have been used for hundreds of years to promote good immune health? Should we use them first?

One of the most effective means of maintaining a strong immune system is to eat foods raw and juicing is a great way to make eating fruit and vegetables easy.

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Swine Flu and Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria – Recipe for Disaster

In our ongoing quest to provide truthful and relevant health information here is our second update on swine flu – it makes very interesting reading and is closer to the real truth than we might like to believe. One thought we have a the moment is that no one knows the long term effects of the swine flu vaccine or the long term effects of swine flu itself.

Swine Flu Could Combine With Hospital Superbugs to Kill Thousands

The combination of H1N1 swine flu and antibiotic-resistant staph bacteria could lead to a deadly form of pneumonia that kills half the people it infects within three days, according to a study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

Researchers analyzed two patients who had experienced bacterial pneumonia that led to blood poisoning, concluding that the culprit was community acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA), the form of MRSA that occurs outside of health care settings like hospitals and nursing homes.

“The threat from CA-MRSA in the USA/UK is very serious concern, especially if there is a flu epidemic as this could trigger a large number of cases of necrotizing pneumonia, which has a mortality rate of more than 50 percent in 72 hours,” said Richard James, of the University of Nottingham.

MRSA is already a highly lethal bacteria, because its resistance to first-line antibiotics makes it more likely to cause complications such as blood or organ infections, boils or even skin necrosis. The bacteria kills more people each year in the United States than AIDS.

CA-MRSA cases are sharply on the rise, with more and more cases being reported in settings gyms, schools and prisons.

“The concern is that this may be the start of an exponential increase as we saw with hospital MRSA infections in the 1990s,” James said. “It took the UK 13 years to get to grips with hospital-acquired MRSA infections; we are not equipped to deal with large numbers of CA-MRSA infections in the community.”

CA-MRSA appears to be particularly likely to cause pneumonia when it infects people who are recovering from a flu infection.

“Bacterial pneumonia following influenza can be very serious and in some cases fatal,” said MRSA expert Mark Enright, of Imperial College London. “CA-MRSA pneumonia is particularly dangerous due to the rapid, aggressive nature of the infection and the difficulty in providing effective chemotherapy. The emergence of pandemic influenza and increased prevalence of CA-MRSA in many countries may cause increased morbidity and mortality in infected individuals.”

Sources for this story include: www.telegraph.co.uk; news.bbc.co.uk.

by David Gutierrez, staff writer Natural News

Vaccines – HPV – Brain Injury – Cervarix

As you know we’ve been following 2 vaccine related threads for some weeks. One of them is the swine flu H1N1 vaccine which has yet to be tested fully and the more pressing one is the HPV Vaccine to allegedly protects against cervical cancer. We’ve seen one tragic death, not caused by the vaccine, but which probably triggered a crisis that exposed another problem (cancer in this case) and now we’ve seen what appears to be a case where Cervarix caused such severe swelling of the brain that a girl ended up in hospital with what looks like a severe brain injury.

As the cervical cancer vaccine continues to maim or kill even more teenage girls across the UK, 18-year-old Stacey Jones is the latest victim to suffer severe harm. Previously in a state of apparent health, Stacey began to suffer severe seizures and brain inflammation within days after receiving the Cervarix vaccine injection. The swelling of her brain was so severe that it cause permanent brain damage, and today Stacey Jones is an “empty shell” of a girl. Continue Reading…

Virologist’s Views Swine Flu

Virologists are scientists who study viruses — their classification, their genetics, methods of spread and their ability to cause disease. No one knows more about this virus than the virologists.

The British science magazine, The New Scientist, recently polled 60 virologists to get their opinion. These are the results of specific questions:

Question 1 – Will the Virulent Form of the Virus Materialise?

Notice here that the about half of those polled think that the virulent form of the virus may possibly appear at some stage in the future.

Question 2 What the virologists are doing personally?

Here I think the really significant detail is that over 1/3 of these experts are planning on doing nothing other than what amounts to good personal hygiene.

The message to take away is

“Don’t worry about Swine Flu, just maintain personal hygiene and eat good food”.

Swine Flu – more news

If you’ve been watching our coverage of the swine flu issue you need to watch this video and make up your own mind if you or your family should take the swine flu vaccine.

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Swine Flu – Fact from Fiction

Swine Flu is not yet dead but there is a whole lot of miss-information out there that is causing alarm. This article is factual and balanced and well worth a read. Once again my strong message is follow the money – it always exposes the truth – good or bad.

I have two issues with Swine Flu:

• It is flu. Flu is everywhere. Globally there are over 1 billion cases of flu diagnosed each year. Swine or not, flu is an issue for a lot of people.

So is malaria. Over 1 million people die of it each year. Where is the crazy reporting about malaria. Or alcohol related deaths. Or those from smoking.

There were 13.4 alcohol-related deaths per 100,000 in the UK in 2006. This year there are 0.05 swine-flu related deaths per 100,000 in the UK. At the moment you are 278 times more likely to die of an alcohol related disease than swine flu.

Or would we rather head to the pub for a pint and a cigarette and have a chat about it instead?

This ridiculously alarmist reporting of ‘Swine’ flu is causing an obscene amount of worry, Government spending and panic in the general public.

Yes, it might be a problem for a very small number of the population, but how much more productive would it be to focus on prevention?

• The answer seems to be drugs & pumping people full of vaccines and antibiotics. MILLIONS OF PEOPLE HAVE FLU ALL YEAR ROUND. Every year. All the time. Why do we suddenly need to vaccinate everyone?!

Oh, of course, to earn Roche and GlaxoSmithKlein a healthy fat pocket.

Let’s focus on prevention rather than waiting and then drugging. It is really, really easy to give your body everything it needs to successfully fight flu. Swine or not!

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Swine Flu – helpful tips

The sad truth is that on a crowded island any contagious virus will spread more rapidly than in a rural community. That’s why London, Manchester and Birmingham have experienced the highest number of swine flu numbers so far. It will spread further afield but it will take time. For example last winter’s flu started in London and didn’t reach the west of Cornwall in any numbers until April – we must anticipate the same effect with swine flu. So what can you do to avoid catching it? Here are a few simple ideas:

• avoid crowded places – cinemas, trains, busses, big conferences, hotels (outside areas like camping are very much lower risk)
• avoid prolonged contact with anyone you don’t know – you have to be in close proximity to someone who has swine flu to catch it unless the virus is on a hard surface
• avoid touching doors, tables, any hard surface in public places where people may have inadvertently left the virus. Some people are wearing gloves when out – sensible and simple
• WASH YOUR HANDS frequently with warm/hot water and dry thoroughly – don’t use washable towels in public areas – use disposable towels or air dryer. Personal hygiene is vital.
• use natural disinfectants in the home and wash door handles and hard surfaces thoroughly
• think about using natural remedies proven over time:
  • organic Garlic capsules and organic Elderberry
  • Bee Propolis liquid spray
  • serraEzyme Quad Strength

Remember that for most people Swine Flu is relatively mild and short lived and your best defence is a properly functioning and regulated immune system – anti-viral drugs are a last resort and in many cases are of questionable benefit in any case. If you want to find out how to provide the immune system with the best possible chance of fighting off the virus then please call Natural Way Health Complimentary Health Centre or e mail.