Archive for January, 2010
In these times of swine flu everyone’s wearing masks. Great time to rob a bank. Nobody would know who the robbers were because all the masks seem to be white.
I have not seen any coloured masks or decorated masks so they are hardly a fashion item – yet. Maybe someone will introduce a fashion range of masks.
The social implications of a global masking are interesting. For example before you kiss you have to lift up your mask, hardly romantic. And they are handy if you want to avoid someone especially if you wear a big mask and dark glasses.
It’s a bit like everyone is wearing a new type of yashmak and we are all making eyes at each other.
The most frightening thing I’ve seen is bearded men wearing masks. It really looks weird with all that hair protruding from them.
And what about pets. Can… Read More
A prominent expert on global flu outbreaks, with the University of Minnesota, Michael Osterholm said, “What makes this so difficult is we may be somewhere between an important but yet still uneventful public health occurrence here — with something that could literally die out over the next couple of weeks and never show up again — or this could be the opening act of a full-fledged influenza pandemic.”
Yesterday, I was talking to a friend and the first thing she asked me is, “Have you read about the swine flu?” She is concerned and worried about how the swine flu can potentially kill a lot of people. Hopefully this will not go on to kill millions around the world, as pandemics did in 1918, 1957 and 1968.
Besides being concerned and worried about this, it is more important to take proactive measures to secure yourself and your family. Everyone… Read More
There are a number of things you can do to reduce your chances of getting the flu. At the top of this list is maintaining a healthy digestive tract. While the flu is a respiratory infection, it always incubates in your digestive tract before moving to your lungs. A healthy GI tract can reduce the likelihood of viral replication as well as getting your immune system into gear to deal with the problem.
The whole flu process gets going by breathing it in and then swallowing, or coming into contact and then touching your face and eventually swallowing the virus. From there it goes to your digestive tract – where your first line of defense is death by hydrochloric acid. This is not a good time to be on any acid-suppressing medication – which is clearly known to double your chances of getting whatever flu comes around.
A great… Read More
From Mexico to Florida and all the way across America to New York, swine flu has become a hot topic. As many as 75 students at St. Francis Preparatory School in Queens got sick on Thursday. More got sick on Friday. What health officials want to know is was it swine flu or something more benign. The hype is on for any large numbers of people getting sick as a pandemic could cause great disruption and thousands of deaths.
There are mounting fears about a deadly swine flu virus that is reported to have killed as many as 60 people in Mexico, one that health officials fear has already seeped into the United States. A pandemic is an epidemic of infectious disease that spreads through populations across a large region; for instance a continent, or even worldwide.
Mexican and U.S. health officials searched on Saturday for signs an outbreak… Read More
The words Swine Flu have become boring. Turn on the TV and it is there on all the news channels, open a newspaper and the column inches are thick. There can be no doubting the seriousness of the disease but would it be fair to assume we are in over kill mode?
The concern for the professionals is always the migration of virus from animal to man, understandably so.
The way bacteria mutate makes control difficult if not impossible, this though is always the case. The worry for you and I is that our scientists identify something that spreads like wild-fire and has no know cure, sounds like a scene from a Hollywood block buster, Outbreak anyone?
In reality the reverse is often true. A silent, almost under the radar killer that suffers very little media attention and as such goes about its work in a quiet but deadly… Read More
