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Secretary Sebelius invites our talented and creative citizens to create and share your PSA about flu prevention and good health.
Colds and flu are caused by viruses, not bacteria. Taking antibiotics when you have a virus will not help you and may do more harm than good. Learn more about antibiotic use, resistance and upper respiratory infections from CDC’s Get Smart: Know When Antibiotics Work campaign.
While you already know it is important to eat a healthy diet, you may find it more difficult to sort through all of the information about nutrition and food choices. The CDC has compiled a variety of resources to help you start healthier eating habits.
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2/3 of all Hepatitis C Patients have served in the Military
Hello Everyone. All Veterans. Please Read. Important. !!!!!!!!!
How are you doing? I posted some new info on my blogs for everyone to see, and if you are an Active / Retired Veteran there's some really important information you need to read.
Did you know every 2 out of 3 people who have the virus are Veterans? I didn't know it was so high. If anyone knows anybody that is an Active / Retired Veteran, please pass this on to them.
Please go to my blogs and read about them. I can only print so much in these comments. Would you please copy all of your sites with this information? All of you fought for our Country and now this.
God Bless America.
God Bless, Bobby
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I love how H1N1 has been touted to be this horrible disease, this pandemic of epic proportions that has killed 700 people worldwide when the "common" yearly flu kills more than 37,000 Americans per year!
Please explain to me how it makes sense to the CDC and WHO that this number of bodies, this minute death toll has inspired countries, including our own, to prepare for mass deaths this fall.
Paris is planning to use the catacombs for mass graves of the sick, we here have recently purchased 20 times the body bags than ever before.
I hear talk about forced inoculations to treat a virus that is bio engineered and is constantly mutating.
I hear that due to the limited supply only the young and healthy will be receiving the vaccines...which is unlike ANY other vaccine out there, except for the hemorrhagic fever perhaps.
I hear that Baxter pharmaceuticals got a patent on this supposedly hurriedly thrown together vaccine and entire YEAR before the virus hit us.
I also hear that the people that have passed, every single on of them, including the mexican baby, were all unhealthy with a myriad of sicknesses including, congestive heart failure, HIV, Aids, heart attacks, immunodeficient disorders, etc...
It has often and confidently been asserted, that man's origin can never be known: Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
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Hi Love your website and Blogs, great information.
May is Lyme Disease awareness month and I just wanted to add something many people still don't know. Lyme Disease can become a serious illness that has killed and has been misdiagnosed, or undiagnosed for months to years. Please learn the symptoms. It can become a hard to cure chronic illness when it is missed. This is also how it has killed, be aware. It gets into vital organs needed to sustain life when left to fester for months or years. I am one of many.
Be careful removing ticks. Never use anything but tweezers. I used alcohol, thinking it might be a black head. This is how tini a tick can be and is why they are sometimes missed.
I wasn't sure if it was a tick because I knew very little about them. But I remembered a friend telling me alcohol could get a tick out. Big Mistake, it does get the tick off, but it aggitates the tick and makes them regurgitate the contents of its stomach passing on lyme disease and co-infections.
I was at the park a few days ago, when I saw a mother with her little one crawling in the grass. Please never put a baby down in the grass ticks can attach themselves to you and your little ones. Prevention is the best protection. When Lyme disease enters its late stage it is very difficult to treat and cure.
Our MD's and specialist like Neurologist, Reumotologist, even infectious disease specialist aren't treating it long enought or correctly some don't even know about co-infections. They tend not to use high enought doses of antibiotics. At this point you need to find and LLMD. The Spirocheets can change shape to avoid being erradicated. They become a strong bug and need certain anibiotics to kill them at this point. They also get deep into tissue, the brain, and organs. Antibiotics specific for crossing the blood brain barrier are needed. Most MD's don't know this.
