Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Avian flu, SARS, anthrax, monkey pox, and west nile virus are all fresh enough that they make other relatively recent insurgents such as hantavirus, Lyme disease, multiple-drug-resistant TB, and even HIV seem like seasoned veterans. Emerging pathogens consume an ever-increasing amount of limited public health resources. The Centers for Disease Control have recently invested many millions of dollars in state-of-the-art command centers to track new outbreaks. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
See book keywords and concepts |  Mosquitoes that transmit diseases such as west nile virus thrive in warm weather. Simply lengthening the warm season will allow mosquitoes more time to reproduce, which means more generations of mosquitoes each year. Warmer climates may also allow mosquitoes to expand into areas that were too cold for them before. To make matters worse, the heat could also speed up the reproduction of the viruses the mosquitoes transmit.
Some viruses thrive in colder climates, others in warmer ones. | | The emergence of west nile virus in North America, and AIDS and SARS globally, Cunningham points out, arose from such travel and trade in an age when "travelers can be in the middle of a tropical jungle one day and commuting to their desk in London the next." With world air travel expected to grow at about 5 percent a year for at least the next twenty years, the global crisis of newly emerging infectious diseases is unlikely to disappear anytime soon.
Others argue for the impact of global warming and hotter weather on growing rates of infectious diseases. | | A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE: CHANGING VIRUSES AND GLOBAL WARMING
One can hardly talk about viruses in the twenty-first century without grappling with the emergence of a number of virulent new pathogens such as the H5N1 virus (avian or bird flu), west nile virus, Ebola virus, and severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS.
These new potential plagues tend to result, in part, from the global spread of industrialization, which pushes humans toward ever-closer contact with wildlife as we encroach into what were once solely wildlife habitats. |
Bottom Line Health
See book keywords and concepts | | The current fear is reminiscent of the way many people blew out of proportion the risk for contracting anthrax, west nile virus, SARS and mad cow disease.
I warn my patients that too much worry can lead to overeating, cigarette smoking and drinking too much alcohol. It also can increase levels of circulating stress hormones in the blood, which places more demand on the heart and appears to contribute to heart disease and stroke. But these very real diseases seem abstract when compared to the scary-looking chickens we regularly see on TV.
Our own brains make us easy prey to such distortions. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Occasionally a new disease appears: AIDS, SARS, west nile virus.... But in the absence of true diseases, diseases such as "prostate problems" and "dropped bladder syndrome" may be identified or reclassified. These can be counted on to provide a money stream by requiring one or more pills a day for successful treatment.3
• Marketing staffs are increasing while R&D rosters remain static or decline in corporations' race for unrestrained profits. This is nothing short of exploitation of disease for profit. |
Alex Steffen
See book keywords and concepts |  We'll find ourselves under threat from diseases not known in our areas (like west nile virus in the Eastern United States). Plants and animals will invade regions they never could have survived in before, as the climate in those places becomes friendlier to them. Meanwhile, our efforts to protect fragile ecosystems will have to take into account that the weather that created those places is now changing. In a warming world, the only certainty is change.
Mountains serve as metaphors in the era we're entering. | | Public health authorities would confront growing caseloads of west nile virus, Lyme disease, and other diseases transmitted by insects lured by warmer temperatures.
Oregon's best economic opportunity? Public-private investment in what a U of O report refers to as a "forest of new energy technologies" for job and income growth, spawning businesses to help Oregonians adapt while generating revenues the state will need to address the impacts of climate change.
Welcome to the new state of Orefornia. |
James Howard Kunstler
See book keywords and concepts |  As the Long Emergency proceeds, and globalism winds down, this kind of travel and traffic will decrease, but much of the damage has already been done. west nile virus and dengue fever are already established in places where they had not previously been. They are probably there to stay. If anything, global warming will now likely extend their range.
AIDS has already made the crucial genetic leap from being a disease established in apes in a wild backwater of Africa to now being a public health catastrophe on every continent of the globe, with no cure in sight. | | There are four basic categories of diseases that pose different kinds of threat to the American public: (1) the new diseases, including AIDS, SARS, bovine spongiform encephalopathy ("mad cow disease"), and "designer" bugs developed in labs; (2) the old standard diseases with developed immunity to antimicrobial drugs; (3) invading vector-borne exotics moving into new territory, such as dengue fever, malaria, west nile virus, and Lyme disease; and (4) viral epidemic influenzas.9 Some diseases apply in more than one category. |
Leslie Taylor, ND
See book keywords and concepts |  It will be interesting to see if North American scientists investigate simarouba as a possibility for North America's only malaria-like disease—the newest mosquito-borne threat, west nile virus. It might be a good one to study because, in addition to its antimalarial properties, clinical research has shown good antiviral properties with simarouba bark. Researchers in 1978 and again in 1992 confirmed strong antiviral properties of the bark in vitro against herpes, influenza, polio, and vaccinia viruses. |
Doris J. Rapp, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  It is of interest to know that in October 2002 the EPA altered the rules to stem the rapid spread of the west nile virus. It is now easier to spray over water with toxic substances to kill mosquitos without a permit as previously required by the Clean Water Act.13,80 It appears to be possible to make exceptions to laws that were specifically designed to protect the public.)
Later on, pyrethroid products such as Scourge and Anvil 10+10® were also used to control the mosquitos in the NYC area. These pyrethroids disrupt hormones and can mimic estrogens. | | As others have pointed out, the real epidemic is not the west nile virus, but the many illnesses potentially caused by the multiple chemical exposures used to handle the problem. In the past the West Nile viral disease, in general, has been a mild illness.64'79'80 Was the chemical spraying a tragic example of extremely poor judgment? In time we shall find out. | | This is one of the chemicals repeatedly sprayed in NYC to help control mosquitos and the west nile virus.) (See Chapter 8.)
Many animals eat plants that make or contain estrogens. Estrogen-rich clover is reported to cause increased miscarriages and infertility in sheep.150
In Pigs
Moldy, estrogen-rich corn causes uterine overgrowth in pigs. It can feminize males, stop ovulation and produce infertility. | | McKinney, Deanna, "Meeting the Challenge of west nile virus without Poisons," Journal of Pesticide Reform, Winter 2002: 22 (4).
43 http://www.turning-aboutface.com. PBS Interview by Bill Moyers with Philip J. Landrigan, M.D., Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
CHAPTER 2
How Can You Tell If Chemicals Hurt You?
What Are the Specific Clues of a Possible Chemical or Pesticide Sensitivity? laf'&i
It can be easier than you think to find out if you or your child unknowingly has been hurt by an accidental or purposeful chemical exposure. It is often obvious. |
Steven G. Pratt, M.D. and Kathy Matthews
See book keywords and concepts |  In an era of antibiotic-resistant pathogens and seemingly new infectious threats like SARS and west nile virus, the value of boosting one's immune system becomes immeasurable.
Inulin, a dietary fiber, is an additive used in Stonyfield Farm Yogurt. It's been shown to increase calcium absorption. For example, an intake of 8 grams of inulin a day increased calcium absorption among teenage girls by an average of 20 percent. |
Doris J. Rapp, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | What you should know:
• In Africa, where the west nile virus has been evident for 60 years, there have been very few epidemics.3
Less than 1 % of mosquitos exposed to the virus are infected but later reports say it is over i%,s»>.s«.m Even if you are bitten by an infected mosquito less than 1% will become severely ill, and of those who become ill, the vast majority will not be sick enough to know they are infected. |
Philip Yam
See book keywords and concepts |  West Nile virus. Did the U.S. also unwittingly import bovine spongiform encephalopathy?
Millions of pounds of beef and beef products from countries later found to have mad cow disease landed on American shores: Between 1980, when BSE probably began emerging, and 2000, the U.S. took in about 1000 cattle, some 50,500 tons of beef, 11,500 tons of meat byproducts, including meat-and-bone meal, and 12,000 tons of prepared beef products. The U.S. imported 334 breeding and dairy cows from the U.K. |
Richard P. Brown, M.D., and Patricia L. Gerbarg, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Then we must deal with the threats of terrorism; snipers; and SARS, west nile virus, and other newly minted infectious diseases, which only fuel our anxiety levels. Just thinking about it all makes us toss and turn well into the night, compromising the sleep we so desperately need to replenish our dwindling energy reserves. We yawn and stumble through our days, feeling simultaneously tired and wired.
Does this sound familiar? If so, you may be one of the millions of Americans who chronically expend more energy than they have, someone whose energy reserves are almost always tapped out. |
Doris J. Rapp, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | There is some research that noted a strong correlation between petrochemical refinery pollution and the death of birds from the west nile virus. One must ask if full spectrum toxicological studies are being done on either the humans or the birds that died from this illness. Could some of them have died from chemical pollution unrelated to or secondary to infected mosquito or malathion exposure? If the proper testing was not done, who would know?l26a'b
It appears that a weakened blood brain-barrier enables viruses, for example, to enter the brain more readily. |
J. E. Williams, O.M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  We need viral immunity in particular because of the dramatically increasing incidence of powerful new viral infections such as human herpes virus-6, human immunodeficiency viruses, hepatitis C, dengue hemorrhagic fever, west nile virus, new and stronger strains of influenza, the newly discovered TT virus,1 and the possibility of the epidemics of rare viruses or re-emergence of those once thought eliminated, through acts of bioterroism.
There are 170 million cases of hepatitis C and 350 million cases of hepatitis B worldwide. |
Dr. Cass Ingram
See book keywords and concepts |  Called the west nile virus, it infected hundreds of individuals throughout the country. This virus will likely cause a national encephalitis epidemic, leading to hundreds of deaths. Without substantial protection thousands of individuals could die. Protect yourself with the power of anti-viral edible essential oils. For instance, one study showed that oil of wild oregano disintegrated viruses, a power not found in drugs.
Encephalitis combat kit
• oil of oregano — take 2 drops under the tongue often, like every hour; also, take 5 drops twice daily or (2 to 4 Oreganol). |
J. E. Williams, O.M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | However, west nile virus (WNV) was never seen in the Western Hemisphere until late 1999 when its appearance in New York City caused eight deaths.
It seems there is no end to new and dangerous viruses. Among the most recent is TT virus (TTV). Like HCV, this new mystery virus was first discovered by the Japanese. It was at first thought a hepatitis virus since it produces a similar symptom presentation. |
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