Swine Flu Facts: Why Do Some People Die from Such a Mild Virus as Swine Flu?

By: kieron mcfadden Click author's name for more of his/her articles

As stated by those who know, the virologists, Swine Flu actually seems to be much weaker than common-or-garden seasonal flu.
Even seasonal flu in fact comes in for the hysterical media treatment (and what by the way would we make of some loony who turns every piece of information into screaming, foaming-at-the-mouth doom-mongering?).
The nonsense put about regarding 36,000 people purportedly dying from the seasonal flu every year is fiction. In the U.S. there have been a little over 400 deaths over the past 5 months, nowhere near the 36,000 figure.
It has also come to light that the number of flu-related deaths among children was lower this year than the previous two years but this still begs an important question: why does anyone at all die from this mild virus?
What is little understood by the general public and is rarely, if ever, explained clearly in the media is that the only reason people die from the flu is that they either already have a chronic illness that has weakened their immune system. Examples of such illnesses are diabetes, direct immune dysfunction, deficiencies in their diet of nutrients critical to a healthy immune system, chronic pulmonary disease, heart disease or cancer.
Smoking too powerfully suppresses immunity as well as damaging the lungs, and we already know that smokers are much more likely to suffer complications and die than non-smokers.
A study by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) found that 32 percent of the few children who died from Swine Flu had asthma, compared to the incidence of asthma in the general population of 8 percent. And two thirds of the children who died had neurological disorders, such as seizures and cerebral palsy. The vast majority of children who have died after catching Swine Flu had one of a number of chronic health conditions, yet the media gives the impression that perfectly healthy children are dying.
Part of the strategy of spreading alarm has been to position the current flu outbreak disingenuously against the horror of the Spanish Flu pandemic of nearly a century ago. A recent study of why so many died during that 1918 flu pandemic revealed that most of the deaths were secondary to bacterial pneumonia and not due to the flu virus itself.
In other words, even that flu virus alone did not kill: it needed help from bacterial pneumonia, malnutrition, squalid living conditions and so forth! Bear in mind too that in1918 hospitals had a great deal less to offer the sick than they do today: there were no antibiotics, other than sulfur drugs, no intravenous fluids and no respirators. All they could offer the very ill was just a warm bed and aspirin.
I have discussed the evident risks of the vaccine itself elsewhere but it looks very much as if we are about to have inflicted on us a repeat of the 1976 Swine Flu Vaccine Disaster. In that year, during similar swine Flu hysteria, a switch was pulled by which one vaccine was tested and quite another, untested, vaccine was then used on the public: and over 500 people were paralyzed with Guillain Barre disorder. The incidence was undoubtedly much higher, because it was not a reportable disease at the time.
It is also important to understand that this vaccine has been "fast-tracked," meaning that many of the usual safety precautions designed to prevent contamination of the vaccines will be waived by the regulatory agencies. According to a number of studies, vaccine contamination is widespread, with vaccines containing pestivirus, mycoplasma, viral fragments, DNA fragments and bacterial components. All these can produce chronic systemic disorders such as cancer, neurologic diseases and even slow brain degeneration.
There are many things you can do to boost your immune system and your ability to survive this uncomfortable but relatively mild disease and these will be the subject of another article.
Suffice to say here the best natural food I know of that can greatly fortify one's immune system is Wild Blue Green Algae.

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