Bird Flu To Swine Flu

Almost all human diseases originate from other animals and then adapt to human hosts, says University of Guelph agriculture professor David Waltner-Toews, according to the author of The Chickens Fight Back: Pandemic Panics and Deadly Diseases that Jump from Animals to People.People, birds and pigs are easily affected with different strains of virus or influenza. The easiest to transmit by human to human virus is human influenza. It is very possible that humans can also get bird influenza and pig...

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Swine Flu-AH1N1 Survival Guide

It's here in the Philippines. The dreaded flu, AH1N1 or commonly known as swine flu, has arrived in the Philippines. This was confirmed by Health Secretary Dr. Francisco Duque III last thursday night. A 10-year old Filipino girl who arrived from the United States together with her parents on May 18, 2009 was infected by swine flu. The said girl was not detected by the thermal scanner because she was still very well when she arrived in NAIA airport but manifested the symptoms of swine flu the day...

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Avoiding Medical Fraud Part -3

Do Experts in the field use the service?Does your doctor take the vitamin you are considering? Does the doctor’s family? Does arthritis doctors who have arthritis wear magnetic or copper bracelets? Do cancer doctors use laetrile when they or their spouse have cancer? Doctors and their families get cancer, and other diseases just as frequently as anybody else. If any treatment have the remotest chance of benefiting one of these serious conditions, the physician would use that product. In point of...

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Avoiding Medical Fraud Part-2

What Are The Promises and ClaimsThis is the second question to ask in detecting a medical fraud. Are they vague and misleading? A typical advertisement urges purchase of a product “containing an ingredient recommended by doctors”. This is intended to deceive and to hide a medical fraud; the advertiser knows that if the ingredient where named, you would recognize it to be relatively ineffective for the problem or readily available at less expense.Beware of the testimonials, coupons and guarantees....

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Avoiding Medical Fraud Part-1

At least 3Billlion yearly are spent in medical fraud, hoaxes and false cures. You probably contribute to this windfall of medical fraud. When you buy worthless medicines/drugs, as a result of television and advertisements, take a massive amounts of the vitamin-of-the-month or send away for “cures” advertised in the back of a magazine, you are paying part of this bill. I should say, you are being hustled.You can recognize a hustle or medical fraud. There are four questions to ask for you to be able...

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