Flu Wiki - Main - Flu Wiki: "The purpose of the Flu Wiki is to help local communities prepare for and perhaps cope with a possible influenza pandemic. This is a task previously ceded to local, state and national governmental public health agencies. Our goal is to be:
- a reliable source of information, as neutral as possible, about important facts useful for a public health approach to pandemic influenza
- a venue for anticipating the vast range of problems that may arise if a pandemic does occur
- a venue for thinking about implementable solutions to foreseeable problems "
Saturday, December 31, 2005
The Flu Vaccine�a Shot in the Dark?
The Flu Vaccine�a Shot in the Dark?: "Recently doctors at the prestigious Cochrane Collaboration, a respected, international organisation that conducts and publishes systematic reviews into the effectiveness of medical treatments, set out to find the answer to a simple question: how effective are flu vaccines for healthy people under the age of 60? They reviewed 25 good quality, clinical trials, published in medical journals between 1969 and 2002, in which healthy people between the ages of 14 and 60 years had been randomly given either an actual or placebo vaccine. Their conclusion? Only six per cent fewer vaccinated people got flu, compared to the unvaccinated people. In addition, the influenza vaccine did not reduce the number of working days lost, nor did it reduce the incidence of flu-related complications, deaths or hospitalisations."
Investigators Challenge CDC Flu Statistics As Season Draws To Close - Health Supreme
Investigators Challenge CDC Flu Statistics As Season Draws To Close - Health Supreme: "I have previously reported that the actual CDC flu-death stat for the year 2000 was 1765. It's in small print, not in the CDC press releases that trumpet that ridiculous canned 36,000 figure.
So, working with the 1765 figure, I read through the various tables. It was easy to find how the CDC came up with that number. Table 1 lists 60 deaths from flu 'with influenza virus identified.' Table five lists 1705 deaths from flu with 'virus not identified.' Add up the two totals and you get 1765 deaths from the flu.
But wait a minute. All these stats are based on reports turned in from the field---which means doctors out there making diagnoses all over the US. If 1705 deaths from the flu NEVER HAD AN IDENTIFICATION OF A VIRUS THAT THE CDC CLAIMS ACTUALLY CAUSES THE FLU, WHAT ARE WE LEFT WITH?"
This article is worth a complete read. I had previously heard about the flu-death stats being inflated with pnuemonia stats. Whta I hadn't heard about was verified flu-death stats being inflated with non-verified flu-death stats. Like, if someone dies of something, wouldn't you test to be sure what they died of?
So, working with the 1765 figure, I read through the various tables. It was easy to find how the CDC came up with that number. Table 1 lists 60 deaths from flu 'with influenza virus identified.' Table five lists 1705 deaths from flu with 'virus not identified.' Add up the two totals and you get 1765 deaths from the flu.
But wait a minute. All these stats are based on reports turned in from the field---which means doctors out there making diagnoses all over the US. If 1705 deaths from the flu NEVER HAD AN IDENTIFICATION OF A VIRUS THAT THE CDC CLAIMS ACTUALLY CAUSES THE FLU, WHAT ARE WE LEFT WITH?"
This article is worth a complete read. I had previously heard about the flu-death stats being inflated with pnuemonia stats. Whta I hadn't heard about was verified flu-death stats being inflated with non-verified flu-death stats. Like, if someone dies of something, wouldn't you test to be sure what they died of?
Investigators Challenge CDC Flu Statistics As Season Draws To Close - Health Supreme
Investigators Challenge CDC Flu Statistics As Season Draws To Close - Health Supreme: "I have previously reported that the actual CDC flu-death stat for the year 2000 was 1765. It's in small print, not in the CDC press releases that trumpet that ridiculous canned 36,000 figure.
So, working with the 1765 figure, I read through the various tables. It was easy to find how the CDC came up with that number. Table 1 lists 60 deaths from flu 'with influenza virus identified.' Table five lists 1705 deaths from flu with 'virus not identified.' Add up the two totals and you get 1765 deaths from the flu.
But wait a minute. All these stats are based on reports turned in from the field---which means doctors out there making diagnoses all over the US. If 1705 deaths from the flu NEVER HAD AN IDENTIFICATION OF A VIRUS THAT THE CDC CLAIMS ACTUALLY CAUSES THE FLU, WHAT ARE WE LEFT WITH?"
This article is worth a complete read. I had previously heard about the flu-death stats being inflated with pnuemonia stats. Whta I hadn't heard about was verified flu-death stats being inflated with non-verified flu-death stats. Like, if someone dies of something, wouldn't you test to be sure what they died of?
So, working with the 1765 figure, I read through the various tables. It was easy to find how the CDC came up with that number. Table 1 lists 60 deaths from flu 'with influenza virus identified.' Table five lists 1705 deaths from flu with 'virus not identified.' Add up the two totals and you get 1765 deaths from the flu.
But wait a minute. All these stats are based on reports turned in from the field---which means doctors out there making diagnoses all over the US. If 1705 deaths from the flu NEVER HAD AN IDENTIFICATION OF A VIRUS THAT THE CDC CLAIMS ACTUALLY CAUSES THE FLU, WHAT ARE WE LEFT WITH?"
This article is worth a complete read. I had previously heard about the flu-death stats being inflated with pnuemonia stats. Whta I hadn't heard about was verified flu-death stats being inflated with non-verified flu-death stats. Like, if someone dies of something, wouldn't you test to be sure what they died of?
Friday, December 30, 2005
Bromoderma definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms
"Bromoderma: A skin eruption brought on by chronic exposure to bromine. Essentially an allergic reaction to bromine. There are diverse sources of bromine exposure including brominated vegetable oil, a commonly used emulsifier and flavor carrier in food products. Bromoderma is a form of bromism."
Bromism definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms
Bromism definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms: "Bromism: A disease caused by chronic exposure to bromine or one of its compounds. Bromism is characterized by mental dullness, memory loss, slurred speech, tremors, ataxia and muscular weakness, a transitory state resembling paranoid schizophrenia, and a skin eruption (bromoderma). Once a common problem, bromism was generally due to chronic ingestion of proprietary bromide preparations. Also called brominism."
Entrez PubMed
Entrez PubMed: "We have previously reported that normal Wistar rats fed during 105 days with standard laboratory chow, supplemented with 0.5g of brominated vegetable oil (olive, sunflower) per 100 g of diet showed a significant increase of triglyceride and cholesterol content in both heart and liver."
Bromine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bromine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "A halogen element, bromine is a red volatile liquid at room temperature which has a reactivity between chlorine and iodine. This element is corrosive to human tissue in a liquid state and its vapors irritate eyes and throat. Bromine vapors are very toxic with inhalation."
Brominated vegetable oil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brominated vegetable oil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Brominated vegetable oil (BVO) is vegetable oil that has been mixed with the element bromine. Brominated vegetable oil is used as an emulsifier in citrus-flavored soft drinks such as Mountain Dew to help natural and artificial citrus flavors stay suspended in the drink. The bromine is mixed with the vegetable oil so that it will have a density identical to the water in the drink."
200. Brominated vegetable oils (FAO Nutrition Meetings Report Series 48a)
200. Brominated vegetable oils (FAO Nutrition Meetings Report Series 48a): " Brominated vegetable oils were considered at the Ninth FAO/WHO Expert Committee meeting of Food Additives (FAO/WHO, 1966) but not evaluated because of lack of suitable data. Attention was then drawn to the necessity for providing evidence on cumulation and subsequent release of bromine in body lipids. Recent evidence has demonstrated accumulation of bromine in the body lipids of the rat, pig and man (particularly children). Despite the absence of any definite pathological effects in man, it seems undesirable that lipid-bound bromine should accumulate in the tissues of man. Progressive cardiac lesions have been noted in the rat at comparatively high levels of intake. No long-term studies are available to define a no-effect level."
BVO is found in Mountain Dew. I've been wondering what BVO does. What I'm wondering is now is whether or not the payoff is there to risk it, considering the elements of it's safety that are unknown.
BVO is found in Mountain Dew. I've been wondering what BVO does. What I'm wondering is now is whether or not the payoff is there to risk it, considering the elements of it's safety that are unknown.
Food Additives ~ CSPI�s Food Safety
"Alginate, an apparently safe derivative of seaweed (kelp), maintains the desired texture in dairy products, canned frosting, and other factory-made foods. Propylene glycol alginate, a chemically-modified algin, thickens acidic foods (soda pop, salad dressing) and can stabilize the foam in beer."
This site doesn't seem to think the stuff is too bad. And the site has a good list of food additives, with a rating.
This site doesn't seem to think the stuff is too bad. And the site has a good list of food additives, with a rating.
Hidden Valley� Fat Free French Style Dressing - Travel Size Food Products - Minumus.biz
"1.5 oz pouch with honey Ingredients: water, sugar, corn syrup, distilled vinegar, tomato paste, salt, honey, less than 1% of garlic, onion, spices, modified food starch, natural flavor, hydrolyzed corn gluten, autolyzed yeast extract, partially hydrogenated soybean & cottonseed oil, oleoresin paprika, xanthan gum, propylene glycol alginate, sodium benzoate & potassium sorbet (preservatives). Calcium duodenum delta (to protect flavor). A trivial amount of fat is added by the oils."
How much of this product is actually free glutamates (evil like MSG)? Hydrolyzed and autolyzed anything is code for that. And you know what propylene glycol is ...
How much of this product is actually free glutamates (evil like MSG)? Hydrolyzed and autolyzed anything is code for that. And you know what propylene glycol is ...
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