Fear: The Ultimate Pandemic

If the contagion rate of fear was measurable, it would probably rank as the most dangerous "pandemic" in the history of mankind.

[Julian Lieb]

STIMULATING IMMUNE FUNCTION: A NEGLECTED DEFENSE AGAINST PANDEMIC INFLUENZA

Society is fast losing its battle against emerging and reemerging infections. HIV continues to inflict considerable human and economic damage, and HINI is causing death, overwhelming health services, and threatening to intensify in the fall with a more virulent strain. The tuberculosis bacillus shows signs of resisting conventional treatment, as does the malaria parasite. Influenza, the agents of food poisoning, methicillin- resistant staphylococcus aureus (MSRA), and hospital- acquired infections (HAIs) take their gloomy toll. Global warming may invite such tropical diseases as malaria to our shores.

Stimulating immune function would transform the prevention, treatment, research and economics of infectious disorders. Immunostimulation is propagandized as unavailable, but as early as nineteen eighty-one, published evidence showed that lithium and antidepressants have clinically relevant, immunostimulating and antimicrobial properties. Lithium and antidepressants have been overlooked as immunostimulants, chiefly because they promise to save a fortune, rather than create one.

Antidepressants can remit tuberculosis, canker sores, cold sores, genital herpes, upper respiratory tract infections, and plantar warts. They can destroy the organisms of various parasitic diseases, including malaria, and are lethal to disease causing fungi and bacteria. Remission of such manifestations of viral infections as sinusitis, bronchitis, frequent colds, sore throats, cold sores and genital herpes in patients taking lithium has been reported. Lithium and antidepressants can reduce the rates of common,“flu-like” colds, and lithium is capable of preventing recurrences of staphylococcal and streptococcal skin infections.

Developing a vaccine for viruses has the disadvantage of having to know the strain, especially a virus such as the human immunodeficiency virus that is known to be rapidly mutating. That problem does not apply to immunostimulants: once stimulated, an immune system is likely to be effective against all strains. One cannot say whether lithium or antidepressants are best suited to HINI, until clinical responses are observed. If not adapted to pandemic preparedness, a disaster may yet befall us. In the 28 years that immunostimulation has been available, vested interests have suppressed it. Among them, government and private laboratories have tried to replicate it using other methods, but they have failed, and are unlikely to succeed.

[lee]

Ummmm Italy...the pigs that were destroyed were in Egypt...best you get facts straight , it was on April 29 2009 and the culled 350,000 pigs...I think the Italians will be a bit upset that you said they culled the pigs...

[Rupert Pupkin]

That's kind of like the obama administration's motto:
FEAR, it's what's for dinner.

[Willis]

We're all going to die, so LETS PARTY!!!! Wooooooo!

[reader]

Fear mongering isn't limited to just disease. It is alwo widspread in our local court system when false accusations are levied toward individuals. Fear feasts on the ignorant. And that's a disease that can only be cured by education and understanding: Two aspects of a civilized society that are sorely lacking in Humboldt County and all over the earth.

[reader]

Julian Lieb wrote:

STIMULATING IMMUNE FUNCTION: A NEGLECTED DEFENSE AGAINST PANDEMIC INFLUENZA
Society is fast losing its battle against emerging and reemerging infections. HIV continues to inflict considerable human and economic damage, and HINI is causing death, overwhelming health services, and threatening to intensify in the fall with a more virulent strain. The tuberculosis bacillus shows signs of resisting conventional treatment, as does the malaria parasite. Influenza, the agents of food poisoning, methicillin- resistant staphylococcus aureus (MSRA), and hospital- acquired infections (HAIs) take their gloomy toll. Global warming may invite such tropical diseases as malaria to our shores.
Stimulating immune function would transform the prevention, treatment, research and economics of infectious disorders. Immunostimulation is propagandized as unavailable, but as early as nineteen eighty-one, published evidence showed that lithium and antidepressants have clinically relevant, immunostimulating and antimicrobial properties. Lithium and antidepressants have been overlooked as immunostimulants, chiefly because they promise to save a fortune, rather than create one.
Antidepressants can remit tuberculosis, canker sores, cold sores, genital herpes, upper respiratory tract infections, and plantar warts. They can destroy the organisms of various parasitic diseases, including malaria, and are lethal to disease causing fungi and bacteria. Remission of such manifestations of viral infections as sinusitis, bronchitis, frequent colds, sore throats, cold sores and genital herpes in patients taking lithium has been reported. Lithium and antidepressants can reduce the rates of common,“flu-like” colds, and lithium is capable of preventing recurrences of staphylococcal and streptococcal skin infections.
Developing a vaccine for viruses has the disadvantage of having to know the strain, especially a virus such as the human immunodeficiency virus that is known to be rapidly mutating. That problem does not apply to immunostimulants: once stimulated, an immune system is likely to be effective against all strains. One cannot say whether lithium or antidepressants are best suited to HINI, until clinical responses are observed. If not adapted to pandemic preparedness, a disaster may yet befall us. In the 28 years that immunostimulation has been available, vested interests have suppressed it. Among them, government and private laboratories have tried to replicate it using other methods, but they have failed, and are unlikely to succeed.

Oh gawd. This kook brought up the global warming topic. Fear originates from ignorance. And that's a disease only education can solve. But for some, education can't solve the problem.

[Not A Native]

This artilce is stupidly written. If "the point is" to get vaccinated, I've got news. There is no vaccine for this Swine Flu.

And there is very good reason to be afraid, because this flu is new and could be very deadly. Others like it have been. Theres been no clinical experience with how deadly it is. So you've got a potentially new disease thats very contagious and could be deadly. I'd say fear is exactly the correct response to that situation.

But fear is very different from panic and we should use our fear to be cautious and careful. Putting garlic under your bed might not prevent the flu, but maybe it won't hurt. And avoiding people who are coughing and sneezing is good since thats how they think its transmitted. If you're really fearful, stay inside for the duration and wear a facemask. There are a lot of good things you can do that fear helps motivate.

[reader]

Not A Native wrote:

This artilce is stupidly written. If "the point is" to get vaccinated, I've got news. There is no vaccine for this Swine Flu.
And there is very good reason to be afraid, because this flu is new and could be very deadly. Others like it have been. Theres been no clinical experience with how deadly it is. So you've got a potentially new disease thats very contagious and could be deadly. I'd say fear is exactly the correct response to that situation.
But fear is very different from panic and we should use our fear to be cautious and careful. Putting garlic under your bed might not prevent the flu, but maybe it won't hurt. And avoiding people who are coughing and sneezing is good since thats how they think its transmitted. If you're really fearful, stay inside for the duration and wear a facemask. There are a lot of good things you can do that fear helps motivate.

Not a Native,

Do you know how a vaccine is developed? They isolate the virus. Do yourself a favor and rent Outbreak for an evening, learn something, and enjoy the local scenery.

[Not A Native]

Reader, you're ignornant and dumb. Better drink more HC milk that's turned what you once had for a brain into mush.

Got news for you too. Watching a Hollywood movie deosn't give you the knowledge of a university degree or experience in molecular biology.

According to your peabrained reasoning, making a vaccine is child's play. Thats why vaccines are available for herpes, HIV, shingles, and rotavirus are.

THERE IS NO VACCINE FOR THIS SWINE FLU.

[oag]

Stupidity and ignorance are the ultimate pandemic.