Re: Study shows 'direct link' between air travel, flu spread

[Guest guest]

They sure are getting desperate to sell flu vaccine. They tried to sell everyone

on birds spreading flu and even managed to extort $7.1 billion dollars in free

government money with the help of a more than cooperative White House, but a few

days after the bird flu funding was signed the head of CDC disclosed that yes

bird flu is a problem....if you are a bird. Gee, do we get a refund on that?

Now we are told that flu is spread by air travel. As I recall they suggest that

the airlines should be required to screen passengers for flu-like symptoms.

Meaning in the future if you have a sniffle you could be detained and even

grounded from air travel. The desired effect, of course, is to force all air

travelers to get flu shots.

At what point does the vaccine marketplace get its wings clipped? Perhaps only

after they've created an iatrogenic global pandemic. They claim it's a myth that

the flu vaccine causes the flu. Well, if it doesn't create an immune response

the jab hasn't worked has it?

The seasonal flu outbreaks, which many people believe are actually caused by the

flu vaccination programs, have been very mild since the Liverpool plant was

busted for shipping contaminated flu shots around the world.

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http://www.washtimes.com/national/20060911-103340-7169r.htm Study shows 'direct

link' between air travel, flu spread

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20060911-103340-7169r.htm

By n Neergaard

ASSOCIATED PRESS

September 12, 2006

Scientists have found what they call the first real evidence that restricting

air travel can delay the spread of flu -- a finding that could influence

government plans for battling the next influenza pandemic.

Air travel has long been suspected of playing a role in flu's gradual spread

around the globe each year, but yesterday, Boston researchers said they finally

have documented it: The drop in air travel after the September 11, 2001,

terrorist attacks seemed to delay that winter's flu season by about two weeks.

" This is the first time that a study has been able to show a direct link

between the numbers of people traveling and the rate of spread of a virus, " said

Brownstein, an epidemiologist at Children's Hospital of Boston, who led the

research.

Other scientists stress that the study doesn't prove that restricting air

travel helps in the long run -- there was no drop in the number of deaths, just

a delay. So if a pandemic were to strike, the question is whether a mere

two-week delay would outweigh the economic chaos of severe travel restrictions.

" You wouldn't want to have people look at this and say, 'Ah, this is

overwhelming evidence that if the pandemic occurs, we should shut down air

travel,' " said Dr. Fauci of the National Institutes of Health, the

government's chief influenza specialist.

" What does it buy you? That's the real critical issue. "

Added Dr. Schaffner of Vanderbilt University, who advises the

government on flu issues: " We're all sure that airlines play a role. ... Leaping

from this sort of analysis to interdiction of air travel I think is provocative,

and we have to be very careful about that. "

It's not that a lot of people catch the flu from sneezy fellow passengers,

although that's possible. Instead, Mr. Brownstein says, travelers who may start

a trip before flu's symptoms kick in infect the people they're visiting -- or

they catch the virus in one city and carry it back home.

People easily spread the flu through coughs, sneezes and germs on their hands.

But scientists don't understand how a community outbreak ripples outward until

each winter's flu strain spreads across countries. Plus, every few decades, a

new and virulent flu strain causes a worldwide epidemic. Better understanding of

those geographic patterns might help stem the next such pandemic.

Previous studies suggest that young children who bring the flu home to older

relatives spark community outbreaks, which spread among U.S. cities and states

when the sick go to work instead of recuperating at home.

The study appeared yesterday in the online science journal PLoS Medicine.

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We take zinc for about a week before (planned) travel or when we know we've

going to be around a bunch of kids. Neither of us has taken (or needed to have

taken) a sick day for the past 2 years.

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[Guest guest]

My brother travels about 250,000 miles a year by plane and he used to get

colds almost every month. When I heard his web talk about how since he started

taking Epicor he hasn't had a cold in two years my ears stood up. I've started

to take it as well and so far so good. The research on it is solid so I'd try

that as well.

Mark Schauss

www.MarkSchauss.com

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flu spread

We take zinc for about a week before (planned) travel or when we know we've

going to be around a bunch of kids. Neither of us has taken (or needed to have

taken) a sick day for the past 2 years.

S S

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