Investigation finds WHO swine flu experts WERE financially 'linked' with drug companies

Read BBC News report here. "A spokesman for WHO said the drug industry did not influence its decisions on swine flu." - Anyone believe that? - Anyone at all? - I certainly don't. - I suppose most people realise by now that the World Health Organisation is corrupted by the fact that some of its advisers are in the pocket of the pharmaceutical industry. We therefore cannot trust what WHO tells us. What a terrible waste...

Swine Flu Conspiracy? There are close links between World Health Organization officials and drug companies over swine flu...

A British epidemiologist has said he is worried by close links between World Health Organization (WHO) officials and pharmaceutical companies over swine flu. Recent Danish media reports alleged that the WHO, which on June 11 declared swine flu a pandemic, has teamed up with pharmaceutical companies to create a scare and cash in on selling a remedy. In an interview with Russia's BFM.ru, Tom Jefferson, a scientist currently based in Rome, said that although he personally did not believe in plots, "I am a bit worried about what I have observed." He said WHO expert committees have "people with extensive ties to the industry or decision-makers who have explicitly kept on producing apocalyptic forecasts year in, year out."
Read article on the RIA Novosti website (Russia)

I share this scientist's concerns about the World Health Organisation.

Today is Global Handwashing Day: Have YOU washed your hands properly today - using soap?

The Telegraph reports on poor hand-washing hygiene after using the lavatory, especially by men.

"Washing hands with soap reduces the risk of passing on infections like norovirus, influenza and C.diff."

Additionally, swine flu is among many illnesses from pneumonia to intestinal worms that can be prevented by conscientiously washing hands.

Calling Big Pharma’s Bluff on Swine Flu in the UK

Excellent article highly critical of Big Pharma's role in the Swine Flu saga. Read John Stone's article on the Age of Autism website

Good nutrition is the best physician and the safest medicine. - You can improve your immune status and many other aspects of your health by eating less salt and salty food.

Tamiflu should not be given to children

The Telegraph reports that Tamiflu should not be given to children.

The Telegraph further reports that Tamiflu reduces flu symptoms by only half a day anyway!

What a pig's ear the government and the Department of Health have made of their swine flu strategies! The drug companies have worked a blinder in conning the powers-that-be, haven't they?

What a waste of money and resources the ludicrous Tamiflu phone debacle has been!

Are you wondering whether to have the swine flu jab?

This article may help you in your decision: BBCnews article on health

Cutting down on salt and salty food helps to boost your immune status.

Lose weight, reduce your risk of most cancers, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, heart attack, vascular dementia, stroke, osteopenia, osteoporosis, hypercholesterolaemia, depression, liver damage and kidney problems, and improve your health in many other ways without drugs, hunger or expense by eating less salt! - Try it! - You will feel so much better! See my website www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk
The site does not sell anything and has no banners or sponsors or adverts - just helpful information.

Read my Mensa article on Obesity and the Salt Connection

And see Sodium in foods

Tamiflu high in side-effects for children

The Telegraph reports that Tamiflu is linked to high incidence of adverse side-effects among children. These side-effects include stomach pains, vomiting and diarrhoea, also poor concentration, confusion, and sleeping problems.

People should always be aware that most pharmaceutical drugs have side-effects, and that children are particularly at risk, partly because if there isn't a child version/dose available they are often given the same dose as adults.

Since because of the laxity of the telephone 'ordering' system for Tamiflu, most of the doses of Tamiflu that are being given out are being taken by people who do not have swine flu, it should be clear that the Tamiflu is doing far more harm than good, and at vast expense to British taxpayers.

You can boost your and your children's natural immunity to infection safely by minimising intake of salt and salty food, avoiding salty junk food, processed food and takeaways, and avoiding dieting and calorie-counting.

Risk of Tamiflu-Resistant Viruses?

I think the development of drug resistance in pathogens began to be noticed in the 1950s, and tuberculosis, for instance, could no longer be treated with only one antibiotic drug and so multiple drug therapy became the norm for this illness. Unfortunately, as doctors came more and more to rely on antibiotics to deal with infectious diseases, many of them became recklessly profligate in prescribing them, even for very minor illnesses and even for viral infections for which antibiotics are useless. They usually claimed and continue to claim that patients 'demand' them and that they are forced to accede to their demands but that is clearly nonsense.

Thus it is that very serious illnesses now are often difficult to treat because they are resistant to the 'usual' broad spectrum antibiotics, and drug companies try to come up with new drugs that can be used instead - until the medical profession by its cavalier prescribing habits makes the new drugs also ineffective because the microbes have developed resistance to them too.

This seems very likely to happen with Tamiflu, don't you think? - Or am I wrong? - It's being given out in the UK for the small proportion of genuine swine flu and larger proportion of self-diagnosed sniffles and coughs, and possibly an even larger proportion to opportunists who have reported non-existent symptoms in order to stock up on the Tamiflu or take it on holiday with them or whatever, because of the over-hyped and ludicrous telephone reporting system that in practice allows many people who do not have flu to get the Tamiflu. - Who decided on this system? - The drug company that makes Tamiflu? - Or somebody in the government who is in the pocket of the drug company? - Or just some half-wits in the Department of Health who either don't know or don't care either about the huge cost to the taxpayer/NHS of these millions of drug doses or that Tamiflu-resistant pathogens are likely to develop?

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One of the many health benefits of cutting down on salt is that it boosts your immune system.

And one of the many harmful consequences of dieting/slimming is that it lowers your resistance to infection.

Do you know anyone who has, or has had, swine flu? - I don't..

Do you know anyone who has, or has had, swine flu? - I don't. - And furthermore I don't know anyone who knows anyone who has, or has had, swine flu. - There's certainly an awful lot of hype about this supposed but largely imaginary pandemic. My personal, admittedly jaundiced, opinion is that the hype is engineered in order to increase the take-up and sales of overpriced pharmaceuticals - tamiflu et al, and the "fast-tracked" (for "fast-tracked" read 'under-tested': see Times article) vaccine when it is finally unleashed on a fearful populace. Here's a welcome article that plays down the hyperbole: Dr Max Pemberton's article in the Telegraph.

I reckon the sensible thing to do is to build up your natural resistance to infection and improve your general health by good nutrition. - Good nutrition is the best prophylactic in my opinion.

A simple first step in optimising nutrition is to minimise salt/sodium intake. This ensures that your body makes the most of the nutrients it takes in. And of course an absolute essential for good nutrition is to avoid dieting/slimming/counting calories. - Dieting is unnecessary, inappropriate, ineffective and usually harmful. - The safe, natural way to lose excess weight is to cut down on salt and salty food.

Lose weight, reduce your risk of most cancers, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, heart attack, vascular dementia, stroke, osteopenia, osteoporosis, hypercholesterolaemia, depression, liver damage and kidney problems, and improve your health in many other ways without drugs, hunger or expense by eating less salt! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!

See my website www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk
The site does not sell anything and has no banners or sponsors or adverts - just helpful information.

Read my Mensa article on Obesity and the Salt Connection

And see Sodium in foods

FAT RETENTION

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prescribed steroids and HRT

Vulnerable groups

See advice for pregnant mothers

Children and Obesity

Associated health conditions

NHS intends Swine Flu Vaccination for the whole of the population

The Telegraph reports that the NHS is planning to vaccinate the entire nation against swine flu.

You can boost your immune system by cutting down on salt and salty food, and by avoiding dieting, because dieting lowers your resistance to infection.

Huge rise in numbers of swine flu cases forecast in UK

BBC News reports that "there may soon be 100,000 new cases" of swine flu a day.

Let us hope that drugs will not be over-prescribed leading to drug resistance as has so often happened in the past.

Good nutrition is good medicine. You can boost your immune system by eating good healthy meals with plenty of fruit and vegetables, and avoiding salt and salty food. - Above all, do not damage your health by dieting. - Inadequate food intake weakens your body's ability to fight infection.

Is it really correct to describe Swine Flu as a Pandemic?

In this Opinion Article in the Los Angeles Times, Michael Fumento questions the wisdom of the World Health Organisation in labelling the present swine flu illness a pandemic, when it has resulted in so few deaths (compared with pandemics of the past). The last words of his interesting article are: "For now, we'll pay in told and untold ways because the WHO has cried "havoc" and let slip the dogs of pandemic."

Did Swine Flu Originate in an Experimental Laboratory?

Adrian Gibbs, a scientist on the team that was behind the development of Tamiflu, says in a report that swine flu might have been created using eggs to grow viruses and make new vaccines, and could have been accidentally leaked to the general public.
Read article on the ABC News website (USA)

Swine flu is thought to be a fairly mild strain

Current scientific opinion about the swine flu virus.

Swine flu has now reached Britain

The Telegraph reports that two people are being treated in a hospital isolation unit in Scotland after contracting the disease on holiday in Mexico.

You can boost your immune system by cutting down on salt and salty food and by eating good healthy food with plenty of fruit and vegetables. Dieting should be avoided as inadequate food intake lowers your resistance to infection.