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West Nile virus found in Manitoba mosquitoes


CBC News
Fri, 19 Jul 2013 13:09 UTC
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The first adult Culex tarsalis mosquitoes carrying the potentially deadly West Nile virus have been identified in Manitoba.
West Nile virus has been detected in Manitoba mosquitoes.

The infected Culex tarsalis mosquitoes, the type most common for transmitting WNV, were collected during the week of July 7 from trap in Morris, Man., according to Manitoba Health.

No human cases of the virus have been identified, the province said.

"Although the numbers of Culex tarsalis mosquitoes trapped during the week of July 7 were relatively low, they are increasing in some localities in southern Manitoba," the province stated in a news release.

"Most of the mosquitoes in the traps continue to be nuisance mosquitoes, which do not transmit West Nile virus. Culex tarsalis mosquito numbers are highest in southcentral Manitoba, but the potential for human exposure to infected mosquitoes is present throughout southern Manitoba.
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Ambulance

Cyclospora infection from eating raw fruits and vegetables is spreading through North Texas

Steve Pickett
CBSDFW
Wed, 17 Jul 2013 21:40 UTC
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The number of North Texans sick with cyclospora, a rare infection spread through raw fruits and vegetables, is growing.

As of Wednesday afternoon, Tarrant County had seen the most cases with 10 people sick. There were nine cases in Dallas County. Six people had been infected in Collin County and Denton County reported five cases.

The infection leaves victims with serious gastrointestinal discomfort, which can last for weeks.

The parasite cyclospora leaves its waste on the leaves and skin of vegetables and fruit.

Health authorities are urging citizens to thoroughly wash and clean their produce. Local organic grower Tom Spicer suggests soaking fruits and veggies in warm water and scrubbing them with a firm brush.

"So when you go to scrub it, whatever is on it is loosened up, and rinse it again. Dry it off," said Spicer.
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Magic Wand

Garlic and ginger inhibit drug resistant bacteria

Case Adams
Greenmedinfo.com
Wed, 08 May 2013 17:49 UTC
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Recent research has confirmed and quantified that whole extracts of Garlic and Ginger have the ability to stop several species of multi-drug resistant bacteria.

The newest research comes from Italy's University of Pisa. The researchers tested garlic against the infective bacteria Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Escherichia coli. The research found that all three bacteria species were inhibited by the Garlic extract, which was taken from fresh Garlic bulbs.

This research confirmed another recent study published in the Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine, and conducted by researchers from King Saud University and India's Rangasamy College.

This study focused on seven of the most dangerous superbugs - called MDRs or multidrug resistant bacteria. These included E. coli, S. aureus, P. aeruginosa, Enterococcus faecalis, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Proteus mirabilis, Enterococcus cloacae and Bacillus subtilis.
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Chronic inflammation 101 - Everything you need to know

PF Louis
Natural News
Wed, 17 Jul 2013 17:25 UTC
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Improved hygiene habits, water clear of pathogens (though with added chemical toxins), and good plumbing have controlled infectious diseases to a minimal threat.

The medical establishment's claims of vaccinations vanquishing infectious disease is bogus. Instead, vaccines have contributed heavily to the modern day threat of autoimmune diseases and diseases from chronic inflammation.

Rather than microbial pathogens, it's the industrial toxins, toxic fake foods, and "better living through chemistry" gone crazy that are the sources of chronic inflammation leading to most disease now.

Comment: Is Your Body Burning Up with Hidden Inflammation? Read the following articles to learn more about the connections between inflammation, stress and disease:

Inflammation May Be Link Between Extreme Sleep Durations And Poor Health
Stress Influences Disease: Study Reveals Inflammation as the Culprit
The link between nightshades, chronic pain and inflammation
The Truth About Disease - What it is and What Causes it
The Hidden Time Bomb Within You: Inflammation
The inflammation and breast cancer connection
Vagus Nerve Controls Intestinal Inflammation
Study gives new insight on inflammation
A solution to reducing inflammation
The Anti-Inflammation Diet

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Alarm Clock

Chief Scientist: Act now or live through deadly post antibiotic resistance era

Heather Callaghan
Activist Post
Wed, 17 Jul 2013 17:13 UTC
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Which is worse - a legitimate threat or the urgency of forceful solutions?

Leprosy. Bubonic Plague. Consumption. Dying from childbirth. These are periods in history that summon shudders of horror and gratitude to move beyond - but we seem to be coming around full circle.

In only the latest round of stern warnings about the antibiotic bubble, Australia's chief scientist is warning that if something drastic is not done soon, even small issues like sore throats and minor infections could be deadly one day not so far off. "There is now a genuine threat of humanity returning to an era where mortality due to common infections is rife," a new report says.

It was only in May that the UK's chief medical officer, Dame Sally Davies, sounded an alarm. "If we don't take action, in 20 years' time we could be back in the 19th century where infections kill us as a result of routine operations." She had said this at a World Health Assembly in Geneva. Beware of urgent warnings - we would do well to pay attention to the offered "solutions" below - which are more alarming than the threat.
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CDC Admits 98 Million Americans Received Polio Vaccine In An 8-Year Span When It Was Contaminated With Cancer Virus

Dave Mihalovic
PreventDisease.com
Wed, 17 Jul 2013 18:24 UTC
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The CDC has quickly removed a page from their website, which is now cached here, admitting that more than 98 million Americans received one or more doses of polio vaccine within an 8-year span from 1955-1963 when a proportion of the vaccine was contaminated with a cancer causing polyomavirus called SV40. It has been estimated that 10-30 million Americans could have received an SV40 contaminated dose of the vaccine.

SV40 is an abbreviation for Simian vacuolating virus 40 or Simian virus 40, a polyomavirus that is found in both monkeys and humans. Like other polyomaviruses, SV40 is a DNA virus that has been found to cause tumors and cancer.SV40 is believed to suppress the transcriptional properties of the tumor-suppressing genes in humans through the SV40 Large T-antigen and SV40 Small T-antigen. Mutated genes may contribute to uncontrolled cellular proliferation, leading to cancer.

Michele Carbone, Assistant Professor of Pathology at Loyola University in Chicago, has recently isolated fragments of the SV-40 virus in human bone cancers and in a lethal form of lung cancer called mesothelioma. He found SV-40 in 33% of the osteosarcoma bone cancers studied, in 40% of other bone cancers, and in 60% of the mesotheliomas lung cancers, writes Geraldo Fuentes.Dr. Michele Carbone openly acknowledged HIV/AIDS was spread by the hepatitis B vaccine produced by Merck & Co. during the early 1970s. It was the first time since the initial transmissions took place in 1972-74, that a leading expert in the field of vaccine manufacturing and testing has openly admitted the Merck & Co. liability for AIDS.
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Bacon

Habits, not cravings, drive food choice during times of stress


IFT
Tue, 16 Jul 2013 13:14 UTC
Putting a new spin on the concept of "stress eating," research presented at the 2013 Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Annual Meeting & Expo® found that people who eat during times of stress typically seek the foods they eat out of habit - regardless of how healthy or unhealthy that food is.

Putting a new spin on the concept of "stress eating," research presented at the 2013 Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Annual Meeting & Expo® found that people who eat during times of stress typically seek the foods they eat out of habit - regardless of how healthy or unhealthy that food is.

The research co-authored and presented by David Neal, Ph.D., a psychologist and founding partner at Empirica Research, contradicts the conventional wisdom that people who are stressed-out turn to high-calorie, low-nutrient comfort food.

"Habits don't change in a high-pressure situation," Neal said. "People default to what their habits are under stress, whether healthy or not."

In the study he and his co-authors conducted this year, 59 MBA students at the University of California, Los Angeles, were asked during midterm exams which snack they would like from an array that included healthy snacks (fruit, non-fat yogurt, whole wheat crackers, nuts/soy chips) and unhealthy options (various candy bars, flavored popcorn, sugar cookies). They also were asked to rate how often during the week they choose that snack. The results found that during peak stress like an exam, participants were likely to fall back on their habitual snack.

Comment: Mechanical habits are an integral part of our existence, unless one chooses to become more aware. And even then, there is a place for beneficial habits. Stress is also an unavoidable part of our everyday life. There is a way to minimize it, for example with breathing programs like Éiriú Eolas, but if you are already stressed and need to deal with it by snacking on something, make sure that this something is as healthy and tasty as bacon.

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Ambulance

22 children die after eating school lunch in India

Indrajit Singh
Associated Press
Wed, 17 Jul 2013 05:25 UTC
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Patna - At least 22 children died and more than two dozen others were sick after eating a free school lunch that was tainted with insecticide, Indian officials said Wednesday.

It was not immediately clear how chemicals ended up in the food in a school in the eastern state of Bihar. One official said the food may not have been properly washed before it was cooked.

The children, between the ages of 5 and 12, fell ill Tuesday soon after eating lunch in Gandamal village in Masrakh block, 50 miles north of the state capital of Patna. School authorities immediately stopped serving the meal of rice, lentils, soybeans and potatoes as the children started vomiting.

Savita, a 12-year-old student who uses only one name, said she had a stomach ache after eating soybeans and potatoes and started vomiting.

"I don't know what happened after that," Savita said in an interview at Patna Medical College Hospital, where she and many other children were recovering.

The lunch, part of a popular national campaign to give at least one daily hot meal to children from poor families, was cooked in the school kitchen.

The children were rushed to a local hospital and later to Patna for treatment, said state official Abhijit Sinha.
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Life Preserver

6 reasons why I do not trust the mainstream health authorities

Kris Gunnars
Authority Nutrition
Mon, 15 Jul 2013 06:16 UTC
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The major health organizations all recommend that we eat a low-fat diet, despite many massive studies proving it to be completely ineffective.
The mainstream health authorities have an excellent track record of getting things wrong. Since the failed low-fat diet was born in 1977, rates of obesity and diabetes have skyrocketed. New evidence shows that this advice is not only ineffective, but downright harmful for a lot of people. However, despite the studies piling up, the major organizations and their guidelines show no signs of being about to change.

Here are 6 reasons why I do not trust the mainstream health authorities.

1. Many of them are sponsored by the big junk food companies

In a perfect world, the people in charge of setting dietary guidelines and educating future and current nutrition professionals would be objective.

They would let current science guide their way, not old dogmas, political pressure or financial influences.

However, we do not live in a perfect world. We live in a world that is dominated by money and major corporations exert their influences everywhere, including the health organizations that are supposed to be in charge of protecting our health.

The best example of this is the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the "world's largest organization of food and nutrition professionals" (formerly known as the ADA - American Dietetic Association).

This organization licenses and educates registered dietitians, the people who are supposed to be the ultimate authorities of what to eat to be healthy.

However, this organization is heavily sponsored by junk food companies.

Here are some of the Academy's most "loyal" corporate sponsors:
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Stormtrooper

India's fascist vegetocracy is world's largest exporter of beef

Murali Shanmugavelan
The Independent, UK
Wed, 17 Jul 2013 04:57 UTC
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Rama Rao, a student who sustained knife injuries in an attack on the Osmania University of Hyderabad campus last year.
This month a group of Dalit (or Untouchables, as they were formerly labelled) students organised a Beef Festival in Osmania University of Hyderabad. It was the festival to assert their culinary rights in public and make a political statement of dietary habits of Dalits and Muslims - by cooking and eating beef Biryani on campus.

About 2000 students participated and although it started out well, the festival was disrupted and students were attacked by right-wing Hindu fascists. The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) released a statement describing how Meena Kandasamy, a writer and poet who participated in the festival, was singled out and threatened with gang rape and acid attacks.

This festival is very significant as some Dalit students have organised themselves to fight against food-fascism, campaigning against the very centre of Brahmanical Hinduism that connects caste with food. Culinary politics and contact with animals play a huge role in establishing purity-pollution rules to discriminate people in the caste system.

Have Brahmans always been beef-hating vegetarians? The answer is a resounding no.

Comment: Like the overall vegetarian myth, these lies endanger people's health and control them through diet.

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