The Flu

Perhaps there will be a vaccine. Note that current vaccine is useless against H5N1 - but still recommended by authorities for 2 reasons - 1- it MAY help a bit anyway and 2 - the more people are vaccinated the less chance of H5N1 and normal flu existing simultaneously in the same person, which greatly increases chance of H5N1 developing ability for human to human transmission. Tamiflu and other prescription medications may be helpful, but they may also be unavailable and H5N1 may be developing resistance. Personally I lean towards alternative medicine and I distrust vaccines.

I suggest take 4 grams (4000mg) or more, up to 100 grams (100 1000mg tablets) per day, of vitamin C if flu is suspected. Other potentially helpful things: fresh garlic, garlic pills, zinc, echinacea, goldenseal, homeopathic remedies (crotalus horridus), silver, Oscillococinum, neti kriya (washing out sinuses with saline solution), and of course good diet, sleep and exercise (and yoga). Note that there has been some suggestion that while Sambucol (elderberry extract) may be helpful for regular flus, it may make avian flu worse (see med-owl link below).

Complementary And Alternative Medicine page at FluWiki
www.fluwikie.com/index.php?n=Consequences.ComplementaryAndAlternativeMedicine

MegaAscorbate (Vitamin C) page at FluWiki
www.fluwikie.com/index.php?n=Consequences.MegaAscorbate

H5N1 Avian Flu Virus Therapy - Med-Owl.com
www.med-owl.com/health/H5N1-Virus-Therapy.html

H5N1 Herbal Therapies page at Med-Owl.com
www.med-owl.com/herbal-antivirals/tiki-index.php?page=H5N1+Avian+Flu

Book - Ascorbate: The Science of Vitamin C (Amazon link)

News article: silver nanoparticles kill viruses
www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=1401

Dr. Mercola says hydrogen peroxide in the ears fights flu

Lomatium.com interesting potential herbal remedy

The Conspiracy Angle

Some people say that this virus was created and/or tweaked and/or will be purposely introduced for purposes of population reduction and control. While I sometimes entertain such ideas, they seem almost irrelevant in this case, as this thing appears to be coming down on its own. Or who knows....

Article by Dr Horowitz at Rense.com 10/11/05 Lays it all out...

Tetrahedron.org - Dr Len Horwitz DrLenHorowitz.com
Some interesting theories on vaccines are discussed in his books.

Rense.com - Archive of Bird Flu Stories Rense.com - Main page ("conspiracy" site)

Links to Stories on Dead Microbiologists a very suspicious story...

Vaccination Liberation tons of info on the case against vaccinations vaclib.org flu page

Dr. Joseph Mercola 10/18/05
He claims its all nonsense and a complete hoax. Actually I'm sure there is much hype, fear-mongering and profiteering going on, but it seems pretty real to me.

Avian Flu - The Pandemic That Will Never Be - Dr. Tim O'Shea
This is a guy I really respect. A lengthy article worth reading.

Reconstructed 1918 Flu

CDD May Send 1918 Flu to Various Labs

Slade's Health Page

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Revised 05/30/08. First posted 10/19/05.