Archive for the 'Health' Category
Merck Makes Phony Peer-Review Journal
May 4th, 2009Via: Bioethics.net: It’s a safe guess that somewhere at Merck today someone is going through the meeting minutes of the day that the hair-brained scheme for the Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine was launched, and that everyone who was in the room is now going to be fired. The Scientist has reported that, […]
Senator Proposes Free Flu Shots for All Americans
May 2nd, 2009Via: Reuters: A Democratic U.S. senator proposed on Friday setting up a free nationwide voluntary flu vaccination program to fend off future outbreaks of dangerous strains. With the United States on alert for more cases of the new H1N1 swine flu virus, Iowa Senator Tom Harkin said the government should include funding for free vaccines […]
Coral Cross: The World’s First Global Flu Pandemic Alternate Reality Game; But Just Weeks Before The Scheduled Launch, An Extraordinary Coincidence Occurred…
May 2nd, 2009“The flu crisis in now real. And so is Coral Cross.” Via: Alternate Reality Gaming Network: Dystopic literature often turns to the threat of pandemics for inspiration. From Albert Camus’ La Peste to Stephen King’s The Stand, authors create global pandemics in their stories to confront issues raised by a threat to human survival that […]
And Now… Lithium in Water ‘Curbs Suicide’
May 2nd, 2009Related: Hundreds of Millions of Pounds of Pharmaceuticals LEGALLY Released Into Waterways That Provide Drinking Water Via: BBC: Drinking water which contains the element lithium may reduce the risk of suicide, a Japanese study suggests. Researchers examined levels of lithium in drinking water and suicide rates in the prefecture of Oita, which has a population […]
Flying Pigs, Tamiflu and Factory Farms
May 2nd, 2009Via: Global Research: Flying Pigs, Tamiflu and Factory Farms by F. William Engdahl If we are to believe what our trusted international media report, the world is on the brink of a global pandemic outbreak of a new deadly strain of flu, H1N1 as it has been labelled, or more popularly, Swine Flu. As the […]
Swine Flu Alert Clears Old Stock of Tamiflu
May 1st, 2009Via: What Doctors Don’t Tell You: It is almost three years since we faced the hysteria of an avian flu epidemic, when governments bought billions of dollars of Tamiflu – the same anti-viral now being promoted to combat a supposed swine flu pandemic. The shelf life of Tamiflu also happens to be three years. The […]
DHS Sets Guidelines For Possible Swine Flu Quarantines
May 1st, 2009Via: CBS News: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has sent a memo to some health care providers noting procedures to be followed if the swine flu outbreak eventually makes quarantines necessary. DHS Assistant Secretary Bridger McGaw circulated the swine flu memo, which was obtained by CBSNews.com, on Monday night. It says: “The Department of […]
Alaska: Mass Vaccination Drill; Children Were Given Varivax, Merck’s Chicken Pox Vaccine
May 1st, 2009Madness. Via: KTUU: Alaska health officials and the Anchorage School District teamed up Wednesday to prepare for a worst case scenario by practicing a mass dispensing of vaccines. The exercise comes as the World Health Organization raised its pandemic alert, which means it believes a global outbreak of the swine flu is imminent. No cases […]
Australia: Government Plan Says to Stockpile Food and Water; “But We Don’t Want a Run at the Shops”
April 30th, 2009Via: Sydney Morning Herald: AUSTRALIANS have been advised to stockpile food and water after the World Health Organisation raised its swine flu alert to phase five yesterday, indicating an imminent pandemic. The Federal Government’s pandemic plan, a 132-page manual issued to medics, media and the public, insists that once the world reaches phase five, Australians […]
Scientists See This Flu Strain as Relatively Mild: Outbreak Won’t Even Be As Deadly as the Average Winter Flu Season
April 30th, 2009If there are eye witness accounts of this thing being much worse than it appears, we need to get at that information. So far, all I’ve seen along those lines is an unconfirmed message that was supposedly sent by a doctor to his email list. Via: Los Angeles Times: As the World Health Organization raised […]
