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Is There a Swine Flu Pandemic?

Yes and no is the answer, the confusion is real.

On the yes side

It is out there

On the no side  

Most viral threats do not materialize, and sometimes they are not going to become the next plague.

The Prudent Course of Action

Start taking care of your health. Get enough rest, and eat well. Your immune system is your first line of defense. As we see it, the issue is all about boosting your health.

Heightening Immune Surveillance is the Key.

The best defense is an offense. Start with a plan of action. One of the best weapons is to see that you get enough vitamins from whole foods. Vitamin D provides one of the best supports for your immune system.

Vitamin C is in the forefront when it comes to helping bodies stay well.

There is a botanical pharmacy at your supermarket

Garlic and more garlic may keep your neighbors away, and will cut down on social contacts. The truth is less socializing is a plus in flu season. Better than ruining your social life it keeps germs away.

Supper foods are at the farmers market. Beet Root, ginger root, kale, spinach, oranges, lemons, and many more super nutritional plants are for sale at these places. These are concentrated sources of phytochemicals. Eat hot peppers they stimulate circulation and help cleanse your body of toxins.

One important preventative measure that is making front page news is keeping your hands clean.  However, that may be true, but they tell you the wrong way to do that. Is keeping your hands clean the panacea? The constant use of antibacterial agents dries your skin. It can cause  small cracks on the skins surface that let bacteria in.

Natural moisturizer is your first line of defense, which means foods that feed the collagen, and enough good liquids.

Manuka Honey from New Zealand has been proven to eradicate MRSA Staph infections that are antibiotic resistant, and is antiviral.  It has been used to treat cold and flu symptoms. Internally and externally it offers protection.  It can be used on your hands.

Avoid Poor Nutrition

Avoid processed food, sugar, and alcohol. These rob you of nutrients. What is real is that you have choices beyond washing your hands every minute, and wearing a face mask that is not going to protect you.

The choices take a little more work than the ones the mainstream media has listed. However, these change your life for the better.

The place to be as November approaches is in the manufacturing of vaccines. It is something that is being given coast to coast and across the globe without clear and compelling evidence it is safe and effective against the swine flu. The exhilaration with the vaccines performance comes from the earnings outlook. Protecting your family is not the reason this vaccine came to being. It’s a rarity when the dollar is not the utmost reason for pharmaceutical research. This is the business of healthcare, where the dollar comes first.

Progress is everything, advances in introducing new treatments has been clearly a long and circuitous route without much apparent success. The evolution of healthcare in America is one step forward and at least two backwards. Attention, just about everything you previous did or took is now realized to have put you at risk. The only thing that proved to be durable is the pharmaceutical industry. To boost your confidence the American healthcare industry, we will be going over past debacles.

We would like to offer you total assurance that pharmaceutical products are safe. The best we can hope for is that a new day will dawn, with a choice of some great treatments being offered by companies not tied in with the FDA. If this should happen the pharmaceutical industry will go into an uncontrolled nosedive.

We are on collision course with the allopathic medical system. Knowledge is the key to changing the mindset of healthcare, so it can really deliver solutions. Taking care of the business of healthcare should mean protecting life. The vision that we have is to offer an updated online resource for you to review, and spotlight all the options available.

A healthy vaccine market for the pharmaceutical companies is good for the economy and bad for us. Vaccines are emerging as one of the most lucrative segments for the pharmaceutical industry. With the future they predict for vaccines, we are slated to be pin cushions. The global vaccine market is expected to have revenues above the $34 billion mark by 2012. With that kind of money at stake, I say run for the hills. Remember to take your children with you. The pediatric markets are going to grow at a slow pace, but the teen market is the new focus.

This and the adult market will dominate the scene. The cancer vaccine market, led by cervical cancer vaccines, is presently one of the most lucrative areas for pharmaceutical companies. Too bad it is not helpful to our kids, and possibly dangerous. The new vaccines will be for addiction, cancer and proprietary pediatrics/adolescent vaccines. Do we have a vaccine for the pharmaceutical industries greed addiction?

The top four players accounted for about 74% of the total market in 2008. Now, pharmaceutical companies are pushing to improve technology, bolster production and ease public safety concerns over flu pandemics and viruses. In the late 1990’s, the number of seasonal flu vaccine manufactures fell to two, because  excess capacity caused prices to fall to about the $2-a-dose range. Today the almost useless flu dosages are in the $15 dollar range. Happy days are here for the pharmaceutical companies. Not so for us.

The vaccine market can reach $45 billion globally by 2015. Orders from around the world for H1N1 vaccine is in the billions of dollars. As flu strains mutate, vaccines will become part of the landscape. Baxter expects production of vaccines to combat the H1N1 Flu to continue indefinitely as the strains mutate. The fear that people have is that the market is too lucrative for honesty to prevail.

Trusting the pharmaceutical companies with your life is counterintuitive. The fact that profit is the motivating force makes for a bad partner. We are not sure of the world’s direction, but becoming a pin cushion does not sound like a good idea. Our children are paying the price for this experiment. At this point it is a shot in the dark, we do not know if we are really averting anything. The ramifications to having all this vile stuff being injected into us are not known. It will be years before we see what was done in the name of science.

The vaccines have been a shot in the arm for the pharmaceutical manufactures, but for us it can turn out to be the biggest pain in the butt. This is what a forecast report includes: Global Revenues is a word that appears over and over in inside reports on the outlook for the industry. A healthy vaccine market may be our downfall