Ever notice that when you read about someone getting deathly ill from eColi, it's somebody that lives in the city, but you never hear about farmers and ranchers who work around cattle and manure spreaders every day getting sick from it?
________________________________ From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 7:24 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Very Important Swine Flu Tip +1 My science teacher in HS back in the mid-to-late 80's taught me the hows and whys that [the over use of] anti-bacterial products would probably be the death of a lot of people. Doctors and scientists know this, yet industry and the [not so] mighty $ keep pushing us toward self-extinction. -- ME2 On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Ben Scott <mailvor...@gmail.com<mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com>> wrote: Jay Dale <jd...@xpresstel.com<mailto:jd...@xpresstel.com>> wrote: > All I know is, the stores here in Houston are running out of > Anti-bacterial products left and right. That's scary. Not the swine flu -- the fact that so many people think antibiotics will do anything for a viral infection. We laugh at the snake oil peddlers of the 1800's, saying we've come so far, that people would never be fooled by that today, but snake oil would be just as effective. Below are a few facts, with references. Those so interested may want to forward this to others. Kind of the like the opposite of your typical Internet chain letter -- knowledge instead of rumor. * Antibiotics do nothing against the viruses that cause the common cold and the flu. Antibiotics do, however, become less effective when overused. So by taking antibiotics for viral infections, you're actually decreasing overall health. http://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/community/know-and-do.htm * The US CDC recommends the following as the major action people should take: Wash your hands, especially before eating or after inter-personal contact. Note the distinct lack of drugs or isolation in that recommendation. http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/swineflu_you.htm * The "regular" flu kills approximately 36,000 people per year in the United States alone. This latest H1N1 strain can infect both pigs and humans, which is less common, so it gets classified as "swine flu". The media goes bonkers over this because they can't report the same old 36,000 deaths/year stat as "news", but they *can* report 150 swine flu deaths as news. http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/disease/us_flu-related_deaths.htm * By WHO definitions, "pandemic" does not mean "everybody is going to die", it means they're seeing a disease manifest in multiple regions. With modern air travel, this is not really an exceptional situation. http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/phase/en/index.html -- Ben ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ************************************************************************************************** Note: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. ************************************************************************************************** ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
