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MERS virus resurfaces in Florida, health workers isolated

Shepard Ambellas
Intellihub
Tue, 13 May 2014 17:01 UTC
Dr. Phillips Hospital
© Wikimedia CommonsDr. Phillips Hospital, Orlando metropolitan area
Two hospital workers, who were not wearing masks, were exposed to the highly deadly virus MERS recently after the patient passed through two hospitals, including Dr. Phillips Hospital.

At least one of the workers has been put into isolation and is being monitored closely as MERS has a rather long 5-day incubation period.

Other reports state that a second worker was also exposed to the infected patient as well and is being now isolated inside his residence by authorities.

Fox News reported:

Hospital officials said the MERS patient, who works in a hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, is doing well and currently has a low-grade fever and a slight cough.
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Beaker

5 ways to lower your IQ


experimentalvaccines.org
Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:03 UTC
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Developmental neurotoxicants are chemicals that effect the way your brain develops in its ability to process, store and retrieve information. The pharmacratical dictatorship has sunk its fangs of control into every facet of human existence making it nearly impossible to escape the toxic stream of products being produced by the new world orders mental hygienists. Dumbing down the population is a compartmentalized industry which exploits human necessity in order to expand its fear of influence. Turning food and water into weaponized mental poisons the modern day behavioral sterilization program marches forward.

The [EPA] Environmental Pollution Agency have established a list of chemicals that are known to cause learning disabilities and central nervous system disorders, The Mundy Database refers to these chemicals as developmental neurotoxins. This list contains well over a double dozen different poisons that will lower your IQ level while quenching your thirst and brightening your teeth. Taking a look at the EPA's list you start to realize most of these chemical are in foods and beverages we consume on a daily basis. In fact it would be nearly impossible not to consume at least one of these brain-cell-killing chemicals which have saturated consumer goods and permeated every aspect of human hygiene creating an empire of imbeciles who pay to be poisoned.
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Attention

Meet the new Monsanto: Dow Chemical... and their new 'Agent Orange' crops

Andrew Kimbrell
Huffington Post
Sun, 20 Apr 2014 12:47 UTC
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If you're like me, then you are probably overwhelmed with emails and articles opining on the evils of Monsanto - and for good reason. Monsanto is a chemical company that began genetically engineering seeds in order to sell more chemicals. The company's business model is based on privatizing life, privatizing our genetic heritage (seeds), and poisoning the Earth. But did you know that Monsanto is just one of the major chemical players that have taken over our agriculture? Others include Syngenta, Bayer, DuPont, and BASF. Monsanto is corporate villain number one, providing PR cover for these other companies that do the same thing with far less public attention. That is about to change. There is one company that may even be worse than Monsanto. And unless we act soon, that company is going to start contaminating our farms and our food in ways we have never seen before. Meet the Dow Chemical company.

So how is Dow Chemical becoming the new Monsanto? As we all know, Monsanto has been the leader in producing genetically engineered pesticide-promoting crops (PPCs). By inserting bacterial DNA into corn and soy, Monsanto scientists were able to allow these plants to withstand massive spraying of their weed killer Roundup. Normally, if sprayed over the whole field, the weed killer would kill both the weeds and the crop, but now only the weeds perish and the GE crops survive. Monsanto aggressively promoted these crops, and large farmers adopted it because now they could conveniently spray their fields, even aerial spray, and not have to be careful with their herbicide use. It became convenient for large corn and soy farmers, and a boon for Monsanto as it began selling hundreds of millions more pounds of Roundup.
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Health

SOTT EXCLUSIVE: Beware of hype - Second case of MERS virus confirmed in the U.S.

Shane LaChance
Sott.net
Tue, 13 May 2014 14:48 UTC
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© APA colorized transmission of the MERS coronavirus that first emerged in 2012. Health officials on Monday, May 12, 2014 confirmed a second U.S. case of the mysterious virus that has sickened hundreds in the Middle East.
The CDC reported Monday a second case of Middle East Respiratory System (MERS) coronavirus found in the US. The virus was detected in an Orlando patient who had traveled from Saudi Arabia and is now in a Central Florida Hospital.

The first case involved a man who was visiting Saudi Arabia and flew into Highland, Indiana earlier this month. He was released just days ago from a northwestern Indiana hospital after officials determined he no longer carried the virus.

"The patient has tested negative for MERS, is no longer symptomatic and poses no threat to the community," the hospital said in a statement.

He is now considered to be fully recovered and none of those tracked with whom he made contact have shown signs of being infected by the virus.

Both men were health care workers in Saudi Arabia, which may have established the close contact needed for contracting MERS.

"Our experience with MERS so far suggests that the risk to the general public is extremely low," said the director of the CDC, Dr. Tom Frieden. "Transmission requires close contact -- for example, caring for someone when they're sick at home or sick in the hospital."
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Bacon n Eggs

The Big Fat Surprise

Michael R. Eades, M.D.
proteinpower.com
Tue, 13 May 2014 07:44 UTC
big fat surprise
This review of The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholz is the most difficult and demanding I have ever written. It is demanding for a couple of reasons.

First, it is psychologically demanding on me because I want to write a review so good it inspires everyone to buy the book immediately and read it. Why? Because I think it is one of the most important books on nutrition ever written. Maybe the most important. And I feel a responsibility to inspire as many people as I can to get their hands on it.

Second, this book is so brimming with valuable information that I was almost paralyzed in trying to figure out which parts to excerpt. A book review always comes with excerpts, and this book presented me with such a bounty of choices, it took me forever to decide which to use.

I can categorically tell you that there are not enough superlatives - at least not in my vocabulary - to adequately describe how wonderful and important this book is. But I'm going to try because I really believe it is that good.

I met Nina Teicholz five or six years ago when I was in New York. She told me she had converted from a low-fat to a low-carb diet and that she was writing a book. We really didn't discuss the book she was writing, so I was clueless. We kept in sporadic touch via email and exchanged a scientific paper or two, but that was about it. I hadn't heard from her in a couple of years when last September out of the blue I got an email from her saying the first draft of her book was finished. She asked if I would mind reading it and giving her feedback.
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Syringe

Gardasil's DNA contaminant leading to genetic mutations confirmed by independent lab

Norma Erickson
Greenmedinfo.com
Mon, 12 May 2014 05:30 UTC
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In September 2011, SaneVax Inc. informed the FDA that despite all Merck's statements claiming Gardasil contained 'no viral DNA,' Dr. Sin Hang Lee had discovered there were indeed fragments of HPV-11, HPV-16 and HPV-18 L1 DNA firmly attached to Merck's proprietary aluminum adjuvant in 100% of the samples his laboratory tested.

The FDA was quick to confirm that Gardasil did indeed contain residual HPV L1 DNA fragments, but that these fragments 'posed no health risk.'

By 2012, Dr. Lee had discovered that these HPV DNA fragments were not only bound to Merck's proprietary aluminum adjuvant, but they had also adopted a non-B conformation, thereby creating a novel (new) chemical compound of unknown toxicity.

Non-B DNA conformations are known to be associated with genetic mutations connected to over 70 serious diseases in human beings including polycystic kidney disease, adrenoleukodystrophy, follicular lymphomas, and spermatogenic failure, just to name a few.

Instead of investigating any potential problems which could be caused by injections of this new chemical compound, HPV vaccine proponents and government health officials chose to try and minimize the impact Dr. Lee's discovery might make on HPV vaccination programs around the globe. Rather than conducting legitimate studies to determine the extent of potential risks, they chose to attack the messenger.

Comment: Check out Gardasil: Medical torture and child abuse by Big Pharma for a record of the atrocities caused by this vaccine.

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People

Dramatic rise in food allergies in Australia with one in 10 babies developing an allergy before their first birthday

Emily Crane
Mail Online
Mon, 12 May 2014 02:10 UTC
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The number of Australian children developing a food allergy has spiked dramatically in the past decade with one in 10 babies being treated before they turn one.

Australia now has one of the highest rates of food allergies in the world, prompting experts to push for a national register to monitor fatalities and severe reactions.

As scientists work to understand why the country's allergy rates have risen, Dr Raymond Mullins, chair of the Australian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, said another 30,000 children develop an allergy to food every year.

'We know from previous studies that food allergy has spiked dramatically in the past 10-15 years. These children are now entering their teens and early adult years where the risk of fatal reactions becomes much greater,' Dr Mullins told the Daily Telegraph.
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Dollar

Some guy posted his U.S. hospital bill online causing indignation around the world


Real Pharmacy
Mon, 12 May 2014 15:02 UTC
A 20 year-old man came down with appendicitis in October last year. He posted the bill on Reddit and it has gone viral. The US Health Care system is a topic of much debate, not only in the US but around the world. A lot of countries get 'free' health care, so needless to say, this has stirred up a lot of conversation.

As if waking up in excruciating pain isn't enough, this is the bill he received in the mail a couple months later. Take a look:

The original cost was over $55,000. Because the 20 year-old man was on his father's insurance, the cost was lowered to $11,000.
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Which is still an obscenely high bill to pay for such a young man. He was in the Recovery Room for 2 hours and it cost him $7,500.
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Family

Fourfold increase in rate of diagnosed cases of celiac disease in the UK


Science Daily
Sun, 11 May 2014 13:23 UTC
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Celiac UK, the national charity for celiac disease announces today, 12th May 2014, new research from the University of Nottingham that has found a fourfold increase in the rate of diagnosed cases of celiac disease in the United Kingdom over the past two decades, but, still three quarters of people with celiac disease may remain undiagnosed.

The National Institute of Health & Care Excellence (NICE) previously estimated that only 10 -- 15% of those with celiac disease had been diagnosed, however, this latest research by Dr Joe West from University of Nottingham, funded by Celiac UK and CORE has shown that the level of diagnosis has increased to 24%.

Celiac disease is an autoimmune disease caused by intolerance to gluten. Left untreated it may lead to infertility, osteoporosis and small bowel cancer. 1 in 100 people in the UK have celiac disease, with the prevalence rising to 1 in 10 for close family members.

Comment: Anyone can benefit significantly from a gluten free diet, see these articles for more information:
The Ketogenic Diet - An Overview
Are you prepping your diet?

Also listen to the latest SOTT Talk Radio show with Dr. Antti Heikkilä on the benefits of a gluten free, low carb and high fat diet:
Curing Diabetes and Other Modern Illnesses: Interview With Dr. Antti Heikkilä

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Bacon

SOTT Focus: Are you prepping your diet?

Larry Bowers
Sott.net
Mon, 12 May 2014 12:00 UTC
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© sott.netAMS fireball reports through 2013
If you are a regular SOTT reader, you are certainly aware of the many areas that are building towards potential disaster - from environmental earth changes and overhead bombardment to growing Fascism and impending economic collapse. The good thing is that you do not need to pick one of these threats to begin preparing yourself, family and local community. The basic requirements for getting prepared apply to all these possible occurrences and more.

The prepping web community has grown in massive proportion to what it was just a decade ago. Blog, prepper and survivalist websites abound and many offer very good ideas that can be applied or adapted to your own situation and needs. But it is rare to see any of these resources address the question of prepping your diet. If prepping your diet confers significant advantages in a disaster/survival situation, then it will have a significant impact on your food storage strategy and what to look out for during an extended disaster.

The question is, does prepping your diet yield enough advantage to suggest changes to your current diet now? And if so, how does this impact your food storage and preparation plan? The answer to the former question, I think, is yes. An answer to the latter is below.
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