Some time ago I came across recent (conventional medicine based), research concerning the persistence of viral infections within the nervous system. As some of you know I have a spinal-cord injury (extreme paraesthesia, autonomic nervous system damage, variable paralysis), and have experienced (at least the appearance of), very long-term viral infection on more than one occasion, for example, I knew, when I re-entered the swimming pool last year (after well over a decade), that I would suffer from âthe snifflesâ as soon as I started swimming again, I did and that infection has stayed with me since. I take a maintenance dose of premium organic echinacea tincture and a liquid (yeast based), probiotic daily, these with the addition of variable amounts of Vit-C as required keep the virus from being debilitating. Can anyone else recount similar experiences?
Iâm very interested in this subject (as you can imagine), and would greatly appreciate any links to articles which anyone can recommend.
"Quote: "I got it, Iâm pretty sure of that (people whose systems could be more easily compromised did), it seemed to start like a very mild flu but may have âmorphedâ into something gastric, or been the catalyst for another gastric disorder, then it presents as morning âshiversâ, slight temperature elevations and persistent (esp. morning), diarrhoea. I remember, however, warnings (which were quashed at the time), concerning the virusâs escape into the population via âthe gastric routeâ! This stinks and mine has, if anything, been getting worse, this silent killer has been loosed upon the population at a time of most vulnerability (reminds one of The Four Horsemen themselves).
Quote: "Swine flu is a respiratory disease, caused by a strain of the influenza type A virus known as H1N1.
H1N1 is the same strain which causes seasonal outbreaks of flu in humans on a regular basis.
But this latest version is different: it contains genetic material that is typically found in strains of the virus that affect humans, birds and swine.
Although the strain may have originated in pigs, it is now a wholly human disease.
It can be spread from person to person by coughing and sneezing.
Symptoms of swine flu in humans appear to be similar to those produced by standard, seasonal flu - fever, cough, sore throat, body aches and chills. Some people with the virus have also reported nausea and diarrhoea.
However, many people who get flu show no symptoms at all.*
Health experts say this could happen in half of all cases and with swine flu an analysis has shown that for children one in four of those infected may not fall ill.
What are the risks of the flu?
Experts have wrestled with the question ever since the pandemic emerged.
The problem is that for most people it is mild - about 98% recover without the need for any hospital treatment**.
But doctors have found it very hard to predict who will develop complications, hence it has been dubbed a âJekyll and Hydeâ virus.
A fifth of the people who have died have been previously healthy individuals without any health conditions.
Nonetheless, certain groups are known to be at higher risk.
Pregnant women are between three to four times more likely to get seriously ill.
Young children also have higher rates of hospitalisation - although this could be partly because doctors are quicker to admit them." Go to: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8021958.stm
Quote: "Influenza is an acute respiratory illness due to infection with the influenza virus.
Uncomplicated influenza is defined as influenza presenting with fever, coryza, generalised symptoms (headache, malaise, myalgia, arthralgia) and sometimes gastrointestinal symptoms, but without any features of complicated influenza.
Complicated influenza is defined as influenza requiring hospital admission and/or with symptoms and signs of lower respiratory tract infection (hypoxaemia, dyspnoea, lung infiltrate), central nervous system involvement and/or a significant exacerbation of an underlying medical condition.
Pathogenesis
There are three serotypes - A, B and C.[2] Influenza A and B viruses cause most clinical disease:
A is the more frequent and the cause of major influenza outbreaks.
B tends to circulate with A in yearly outbreaks and causes less severe illness.
C tends to cause a mild or asymptomatic illness akin to the common cold.
Influenza A serotypes are further categorised by their surface antigens:
H: haemagglutinin - facilitates entry of the virus into the host respiratory cell.
N: neuraminidase - facilitates release of virions from the infected host cells.
There are 15 H and 9 N subtypes of the A virus in aquatic birds, which together with pigs (often termed the âmixing vesselâ for scrambling human and avian virus genetic material) are the natural reservoir of the virus. Many of the newer types of influenza are thought to have arisen in China because of the often close co-habitation there of pigs, fowl and humans. Swine flu is an influenza A virus most frequently of subtype H1N1, usually found in pigs but able to be transferred to humans.
The influenza virus undergoes minor mutations to one or both of its surface antigens - antigenic drift. This causes seasonal epidemics where people have only partial immunity from previous infection.
In influenza A alone, major and sudden changes in the H and N antigens produce a new virus subtype - antigenic shift. There is little population immunity to the new form and a major epidemic may ensue.
There is evidence emerging that humans can serve as the âmixing vesselâ for at least some of the 15 avian subtypes circulating in bird populations." Go to: http://www.patient.co.uk/doctor/influenza
*Italics mine.
**I dispute this in the case of the most recent pandemic. As I have stated I believe many cases of gastrointestinal swine-flu remain undiagnosed (âhiddenâ in the population of both the poorly advised and wary).
You know I suspect that things have been left this way because they know they cannot treat it! "
I was âtweetedâ this today (March 27, 2015), âŚ
Quote: "WHO and the pandemic flu âconspiraciesâ â The BMJ and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism report
Conflicts of Interest
â A joint investigation by the BMJ and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has uncovered evidence that raises troubling questions about how WHO managed conflicts of interest among the scientists who advised its pandemic planning
â The secrecy of the committee is also fuelling conspiracy theories, particularly around the activation of dormant pandemic vaccine contracts. A key question will be whether the pharmaceutical companies, which had invested around $4bn (ÂŁ2.8bn, 3.3bn) in developing the swine flu vaccine, had supporters inside the emergency committee.
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Was it appropriate for WHO to take advice from experts who had declarable financial and research ties with pharmaceutical companies producing antivirals and influenza vaccines?
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Why was key WHO guidance authored by an influenza expert who had received payment for other work from Roche, manufacturers of oseltamivir, and GlaxoSmithKline, manufacturers of zanamivir?
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Why does the composition of the emergency committee from which Chan sought guidance remain a secret known only to those within WHO?
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Our investigation has identified key scientists involved in WHO pandemic planning who had declarable interests, some of whom are or have been funded by pharmaceutical firms that stood to gain from the guidance they were drafting
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FDAâs advisory committee voted by 13 to 4 not to approve zanamivir on the grounds that it was no more effective than placebo when the patients were on other drugs such as paracetamol. He said that it didnât reduce symptoms even by a day.
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conflicts of interest have never been publicly disclosed by WHO, and WHO has dismissed inquiries into its handling of the A/H1N1 pandemic as âconspiracy theories.â
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the advisory committee decided not to recommend zanamivir, the FDAâs management reassigned the oseltamivir review to someone else. Dr Elashoff believes that the approval of zanamivir paved the way for oseltamivir, which was approved by the FDA later that year.
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âWHO never publishes individual DOIs [declaration of interest], except after consultation with the Office of the Director-General.
"Key scientists advising the World Health Organization on planning for an influenza pandemic had done paid work for pharmaceutical firms that stood to gain from the guidance they were preparing. These conflicts of interest have never been publicly disclosed by WHO, and WHO has dismissed inquiries into its handling of the A/H1N1 pandemic as âconspiracy theories.â Deborah Cohen and Philip Carter investigate.
Next week marks the first anniversary of the official declaration of the influenza A/H1N1 pandemic. On 11 June 2009 Dr Margaret Chan, the director general of the World Health Organization, announced to the worldâs media: âI have conferred with leading influenza experts, virologists, and public health officials. In line with procedures set out in the International Health Regulations, I have sought guidance and advice from an Emergency Committee established for this purpose. On the basis of available evidence, and these expert assessments of the evidence, the scientific criteria for an influenza pandemic have been metâŚThe world is now at the start of the 2009 influenza pandemic.â
It was the culmination of 10 years of pandemic preparedness planning for WHOâyears of committee meetings with experts flown in from around the world and reams of draft documents offering guidance to governments. But one year on, governments that took advice from WHO are unwinding their vaccine contracts, and billions of dollarsâ worth of stockpiled oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and zanamivir (Relenza)âbought from health budgets already under tight constraintsâlie unused in warehouses around the world*."
For full article go to: WHO and the pandemic flu âconspiraciesâ â The BMJ and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism report... - Linkis.com
*Italics mine; âWonât be needing those then (put this in your pocket), move it along nothing to see here!â
Thank you Wilma (@wilma _miles one of my anti-WiFi buddies)!
Also (and also from Wilma),âŚ
Quote: "Swine flu outbreak in India: Expert suggests new strains behind deaths, calls for virus studies
A new strain of influenza virus responsible for 99.8% flu infections in the US now could be responsible for some of the deaths in the recent swine flu outbreak in India, says a visiting scientist and director of Atlanta Emory Vaccine Centre.
The H3N2 virus, is one of the three sub-types of swine flu but labs in India are only looking for H1N1 strains. H2N2 is the other strain.
Dr Rafi Ahmed, who is leading an inter-governmental vaccine development programme of the Emory Centre and New Delhi-based International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), called for studying the strains of the influenza virus in the current outbreak.
At least 20 deaths in Telangana could have been caused by other strains of swine flu, agree doctors.
With similar symptoms to H1N1 infected cases, these patients who were sent home after showing negative results for H1N1 died within a few days.
A panic-driven rush for vaccines at drug stores is sending the stocks low.
The trivalent influenza vaccine gives protection against H1N1, H3N2 and Influenza B. The vaccine takes at least two weeks to develop immunity and provides about 60-80% protection for about a year.
Following consultations with experts, the Indian government has recommended vaccination only for health workers.
Toll crosses 900
Meanwhile, the Indian Health Minister JP Nadda has urged the public not to panic, even as the number of deaths from swine flu crossed 900 in less than two months, while the number of infected cases stood at 16,000.
Almost 51 deaths were reported in a single day.
Most of the deaths have been from complications arising from other diseases or disorders present in the patient. Patients have been coming into hospitals very late, further aggravating their condition, said a statement issued by the ministry.
The drug oseltamivir remains effective for treatment, it said.
Virologists have recommending the use of N-95 face masks which filter out over 95% of small air droplets if worn correctly.
But the masks should not be worn for more than two hours and need to be disposed off carefully.
Washing hands thoroughly for a good two minutes using a soap solution has also been recommended as a way to reduce exposure risks.
Thirty five fresh swine flu cases have been reported in the state of Telangana on a single day.
According to the ministry, Rajasthan accounts for the highest number of deaths at 234, along with 4,884 infections. Gujarat ranks second at 231 deaths and 3,527 infections. Rise in infections has been seen in Delhi with 2571 cases." Go to: "Arafel": #NoNaturalImmunity H1N1 Gastrointestinal Swine-Flu: The World Health Organisation and The Silent Killer for full article.
Nb. They will not test for such viruses outside of pandemic thus Iâve had; colonoscopy, endoscopy, stool sampling and ultra-sound no diagnosis but I am still suffering (prescribed Omeprazole), from a debilitating and persistent digestive problem. Iâm treating my symptoms with diet and homeopathically (my condition would be much worse if I wasnât).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3647473/
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.mi.40.100186.001111?journalCode=micro
Quote; ââŚsome viruses are better adapted to invade the CNS through peripheral nerves (poliovirus (PV)) [50â52] or olfactory sensory neurons (herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1)) [53, 54] (Figure 3). Limitation to one of these pathways is not obligatory as can be seen with WNV [55] and PV [56]. The most common pathogens causing viral CNS infection are displayed in Table 1.â https://www.hindawi.com/journals/mi/2016/8562805/