Re: Question on Bird Flu, MOLD and Lung Health Importance to Survival

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I've got some pain in the lungs & am seeing a doc on thursday. It could be

fungus, don't know yet. Does the flu shot protect against this flu? Loni

LiveSimply <quackadillian@...> wrote: A few days ago I was reading a BBC

website on the coming Bird Flu and

they stated that people needed to do whatever they could to keep their

lungs healthy because the Bird Flu, if it comes, seems to kill those

with unhealthy lungs who get it.

I was wondering, does that apply to MOLD ILLNESS as well? I fear a

sort of nightmare scenario in which urban areas that have lots of mold

might be declared disaster areas, quarantined, burned down or ???

because of all the sick people - or even POTENTIALLY sick people

there?

Wouldn't it be better - and CHEAPER to remediate the mold everywhere

now, to avoid this destruction of lives and communities?

Just curious...

I know that the fat contracts might be very profitable for

well-connected companies, but seeing how badly the recovery effort in

NOLA is going, well..

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[Guest guest]

From what I have heard, there is no 'flu shot' for bird flu and the

percentage of people who have gotten it and then died from it is very

high, compared to other flu strains.

They are predicting that in the expected global bird flu pendemic,

that the number of people worldwide who didn't survive infection could

be many many millions. Like in 1918, or worse.

I was thinking from this that having healthy lungs would be very

important, since they are expecting this virus to make the jump soon.

For some reason, they say, this new contagious disease moving from

birds to humans is very likely now.

" During the last century there have been three serious flu outbreaks.

The first in 1918, dubbed the Spanish flu, killed up to 50 million

across the world.

Asian flu hit in 1957, followed by Hong Kong flu in 1968, which

claimed one million victims each.

Although H5N1 has only killed 42 people so far in comparison, its

death to infection rate is 76%.

" It is very frightening to see such a high case fatality rate, " said

Dr , but she said it might be that less serious or ambiguous cases

had not been picked up, which would mean the real rate could be lower

than this.

A study published in this week's New England Journal of Medicine

supports this notion.

The Vietnamese authors report a case of a four-year-old boy who had

diarrhoea and seizures rather than respiratory symptoms before going

into a coma and dying from the H5N1 virus.

Dr said it was important to keep a handle on what the virus was

doing and for countries to prepare for a pandemic by stockpiling

antiviral drugs. "

See

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/world/2005/bird_flu/default.stm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/conditions/birdflu1.shtml

and the article from which I got the above:

Bird flu 'has pandemic potential'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4280817.stm

On 12/26/05, Loni Rosser <loni326@...> wrote:

> I've got some pain in the lungs & am seeing a doc on thursday. It could be

fungus, don't know yet. Does the flu shot protect against this flu? Loni

>

> LiveSimply <quackadillian@...> wrote: A few days ago I was reading a

BBC website on the coming Bird Flu and

> they stated that people needed to do whatever they could to keep their

> lungs healthy because the Bird Flu, if it comes, seems to kill those

> with unhealthy lungs who get it.

>

> I was wondering, does that apply to MOLD ILLNESS as well? I fear a

> sort of nightmare scenario in which urban areas that have lots of mold

> might be declared disaster areas, quarantined, burned down or ???

> because of all the sick people - or even POTENTIALLY sick people

> there?

>

> Wouldn't it be better - and CHEAPER to remediate the mold everywhere

> now, to avoid this destruction of lives and communities?

>

> Just curious...

>

> I know that the fat contracts might be very profitable for

> well-connected companies, but seeing how badly the recovery effort in

> NOLA is going, well..

>

>

>

>

> FAIR USE NOTICE:

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