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Health officials puzzled by surge in rare bacterial disease known as rabbit fever

Laura Zuckerman
Reuters
Sat, 12 Sep 2015 16:37 UTC
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U.S. health officials said on Thursday they were puzzled by a surge in the number of people who have contracted a rare bacterial disease usually found in rabbits that has already killed a Wyoming man and sickened dozens of people in Colorado, South Dakota and Nebraska this year.

The unusually high number of cases of tularemia, sometimes called rabbit fever, have been concentrated in northeastern Wyoming and in neighboring parts of South Dakota and Nebraska and farther south in the Colorado Front Range, where there have been reported die-offs of animals like rabbits and voles that can carry the infectious disease, Wyoming health officials said.

While tularemia, whose symptoms can include fever, sore throat and muscle aches, is often present in the environment, it rarely sickens more than a few people a year in Wyoming, a handful in Colorado and just a few in South Dakota, health officials said.
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Biotech Madness! Genetically-Modified "Glow" chicken

Catherine Frompovich
Activist Post
Sat, 12 Sep 2015 16:23 UTC
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© Reuters/Norrie Russell of The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh/HandoutTop Image: A baby chick, genetically modified to block transmission of bird flu, glows under an ultraviolent light, next to a chick that has not been modified, in this undated handout photo provided by Norrie Russell of The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh.
Most folks are familiar with glow worms [1], especially fireflies kids love to catch on warm summer evenings after dusk. But, baby chicks whose beaks and feet glow when subjected to ultra violet light! Is that a novelty for Easter time, or does the GMO-chick have a real scientific purpose?

According to scientists at Cambridge and the University of Edinburgh's Roslin Institute, GMO-glow chickens are part of a scientific project to block bird flu in egg-laying hens, which has devastated flocks of chickens and turkeys in the USA to the tune of some 48 million chickens and turkeys that had to be destroyed since December of 2014.
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Health

Health experts: Indigenous diets can help fight modern illnesses


The Guardian
Mon, 03 Feb 2014 15:55 UTC
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© Torsten Blackwood/AFP/Getty ImagesAn Okiufa boy in Papua New Guinea. Grains long harvested by indigenous communties have been gaining popularity in developed countries.
Traditional food consumed by rural communities contain nutrients that are lacking in high- and middle-income countries.

Unprecedented levels of chronic non-communicable diseases are prompting calls to revert to the diets of our ancestors to regain lost nutrients.

It is believed that such a shift would help to improve society's relationship with the Earth and restore human and environmental health.
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Attention

Vaccines and GMOs: Both are untested and destroy life

Ethan Huff
alignlife.com
Mon, 24 Aug 2015 15:17 UTC
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Two of the most aggressively promoted "game changers" for health and nutrition — vaccines and GMOs — just so happen to be two of the most destructive elements in modern society. Neither has been thoroughly safety tested, and both have been shown in independent research to cause many of the problems which they are claimed to mitigate.

The similarities between these two agents of destruction are striking, yet the general public has been manipulated into believing that both were created for our good. How did this come to be? It all seems to stem from the widely held misbelief that man is smarter than nature — that nature is somehow broken and in need of fixing through alterations and re-engineering.

Comment: Watch Out for Flying Syringes, GMO Food Vaccines, and Forced Vaccinations

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Pills

Coincidence or real?: The link between psychotropic drugs and violence

Alex Pietrowski
Waking Times
Fri, 11 Sep 2015 14:37 UTC
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Many of the mass shootings in the United States (US) over the last few decades - including the Columbine School shooting, Virginia Tech massacre, and the Colorado movie theater shooting - were carried out by individuals known to be taking psychotropic prescription drugs. This, of course leads to the questions, what role do these pharmaceuticals play in the rise of mass shootings?

Is there a link between psychotropics, particularly antidepressants, and shocking acts of public violence.

Over the last 25 years, the market for psychotropic drugs has exploded, especially in the category of antidepressants. In the US between the years 1989 and 1992, the number of prescriptions for antidepressants increased from 2.5 million to 33.2 million. That's an increase of 1328%. As of mid 2014, over 41 million people in the US are taking antidepressants, including the common brands Paxil, Prozac, Zoloft, Celexa, Luvox, Wellbutrin, and others.

Comment: The dangerous effects of psychiatric medications has been well documented. This, however, does not stop Big Pharma and the FDA from continuing to profit from their use.

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Syringe

New push for Meningitis B vaccines at U.S. colleges and universities

Peter Loftus
Wall Street Journal
Mon, 07 Sep 2015 14:05 UTC
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© UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATISarah Ely, of Milford, Ohio, a first-year student at the University of Cincinnati, receives a meningitis B vaccination from Randi Smith, a staff member with UC's University Health Services.
Scares across the country prompt administrators to take more pre-emptive measures

As the fall semester gets under way, some U.S. colleges and universities are offering students new vaccines against a bug responsible for recent campus outbreaks of a rare but life-threatening form of meningitis.

Academic institutions are taking a range of approaches, from simply making the shots available at student health centers to anyone who is interested, to holding vaccine clinics on campus that students are required to attend.

Providence College, where two students contracted meningitis last winter, held vaccination clinics the past two weekends. The school required first-year students to attend, though students could opt out of receiving the shots.
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Attention

Gardasil: The murdering of our daughters

Dave Hodges
The Common Sense Show
Tue, 17 Sep 2013 20:39 UTC
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"I just wish someone had warned me about Gardasil....... My Jasmine would still be here with us." - Rhonda Renata

According to the mother of Jasmine Renata, aged 18, her daughter was murdered by Merck. There was no autopsy, no official recrimination of Merck, just a grieving mother left to bury her only daughter.

Unfortunately, this scenario is being played out time and time again and nobody is holding Merck criminally accountable for the all-too-deadly results of Gardasil. The reckless use of this killer vaccine continues unabated despite the fact that Merck was recently ordered to pay six million dollars to another parent of a daughter that was murdered by Gardasil. Patient safety be damned.

On October 9th, 2011, California governor Brown signed AB 499 into law which provides that the Merck manufactured, Gardasil, designed to prevent cervical cancer, can be administered to children 12 years old and up without parental consent.

Comment: Gardasil: Medical torture and child abuse by Big Pharma
There is something deeply wrong with a giant pharmaceutical company spending hundreds of millions of dollars to manipulate women and influence legislation in order to generate a revenue stream of billions of dollars a year for itself at the expense of a gullible public. Because what is wrong with Gardasil isn't just that it is unnecessary. Gardasil is possibly the most dangerous vaccine on the market, with the potential to injure, maim, or even kill the children who receive it. The program of coercion to vaccinate every 11- to 26-year-old girl with Gardasil is relentless. This vaccine is given not just in doctor's offices, where doctors have been known to "fire" noncompliant patients, but in schools and colleges, where the pressure on girls and their parents to conform can be extreme. These institutions all have quotas - sometimes including financial rewards - and they are anxious to prove high rates of compliance.8 But there is no informed consent prior to vaccination, so most of these girls and their parents have no idea what they are risking by agreeing to vaccination with Gardasil. While Merck, the FDA, the CDC and the medical establishment all deny that there have been serious, life-altering adverse events associated with Gardasil, the fact is that compared with the mandated vaccines which are given with greater frequency, Gardasil still has the most adverse events reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) of any vaccine. And since reporting of adverse events is not mandatory in the US (although outbreaks of so-called vaccine-preventable illness are), it is likely that only 10% even get reported!9


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Heart

The Health and Wellness Show - Detox Protocols

Sott Editors
Sott.net
Mon, 25 May 2015 14:00 UTC
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The Health and Wellness show on the SOTT Radio Network covers topics of health, diet, science, homeopathy, wellness culture, and more. Tune in weekly!

Today we'll be discussing detox protocols - what works and what doesn't? Intermittent fasting, detox via a health diet, heavy metals detox, FIR saunas, coffee enemas, and more!

Included, as always, will be Zoya's pet segment.

on BlogTalkRadio

Here's the transcript of the show:
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Health

New research suggests lethal diseases could be transmitted through contaminated human and medical material


RT
Fri, 11 Sep 2015 00:52 UTC
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© Edgard Garrido / Reuters
Donated blood and contaminated surgical instruments are now feared to be transmitters of Alzheimer's disease, scientists have said after studying brains during an autopsy of patients who had been treated with human growth hormone extracted from cadavers.

An autopsy of people who had been treated with human growth hormone (HGH) as children has revealed that their brains had a pathology that is vastly associated with Alzheimer's disease, according to scientists at University College London (UCL). Their research casts doubt on previous beliefs and could mean that lethal disease could be transmitted through contaminated human and medical material.

The discovery, outlined in a study published in the journal Nature, was made during research of a different neurological disorder - Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). CJD is known to be transmitted via surgery, blood and hormone treatment, and it is now believed that the same could be true for Alzheimer's.

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SOTT Focus: The Health & Wellness Show: Pet Health


Sott.net
Fri, 11 Sep 2015 14:00 UTC
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There are probably as many misconceptions in regards to pet health as there are in human health. Today on the Health and Wellness Show we're going to be taking a closer look at how to care for our inter-species companions (and even how they help care for us!). What's the best thing to feed your pet? How can you best care for them in an emergency? What are the signs that something is wrong? All these topics and more will be covered in today's show. With us this week, live, is our resident pet health specialist is Zoya.

Join us every Friday at 10 am EST for the SOTT Talk Radio Network's Health and Wellness Show.

Running Time: 01:59:00

Download: MP3

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