Health Concerns
Toxic
At Any Speed: Indoor Air Pollutants Inside Your Car
Calculate
Your Body Mass Index U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services
Healthopedia
Web-MD -
very informative
Ask.com
- Excellent search site
Ayurveda
"the science of life and longevity"
Cancers
You Can Catch
Dr.
Margaret Chan selected to lead World Health Organization
infoholix.net
- Complementary Alternative Medicine International ...
infoholix.net
- Tai Chi - Complementary Alternative Medicine ...
HOPES
website - University of California - Stanford
Life
Enthusiast Co-Op
Bitter
Melon "The most bitter food on earth"
Open
Heart Surgery
Global
Disease
Protect
Yourself From Dirty Supermarkets -MSN-health
The
High Price of Illness in China BBC News, Beijing
Center for Controlled Disease
and Prevention CDC - America
Avian
Influenza (Bird Flu) and Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Virus
Note: Original article from- MSNBC
CDC: Bird
Flu Comparison
(many in-depth and very informative articles - must
read)
BIRD FLU SYMPTOMS
Persistent fever, cough, sore throat, muscle aches, shortness of breath and acute respiratory distress. Patients can develop viral pneumonia, multiple organ failure, especially in the lungs and kidneys, and other severe and life-threatening complications in a matter of days. So far the virus is transmitted through direct contact with infected birds.
COMMON FLU SYMPTOMS
Fever, cough, running nose, muscle pain.
BIRD FLU MORTALITY RATE
Up to 50 percent. 117 have become infected with H5N1; over 60, mostly young people, have died.
COMMON FLU MORTALITY RATE
Kills up to 2 percent of people it infects, with elderly, young children and people in developing countries more at risk. Mortality rates in developed countries are much lower but in an average year, influenza still kills between 500,000 and a million people globally.
BIRD FLU TREATMENT
Prescription antivirals oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and the a lesser extent zanamivir (Relenza) are the only medications that are effective against avian flu. The drugs can prevent infection up to 80 percent and can treat patients who have had symptoms for 2 days or less. However, flu viruses can become resistant to these drugs, so these medications may not always work.
COMMON FLU TREATMENT
Some vaccines are available to prevent infection. Prescription antivirals antivirals oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and zanamivir (Relenza) are approved to treat type A and B influenza, the two types most responsible for flu epidemics. In order to lessen severity of the infection, patients needed to start treatment within two days of the onset of symptoms.
Current
Bird Flu Protection News
Bird
flu hits the land of foie gras
- MSNBC
BIRD
FLU ABC news Bird
Flu Asia Confidential New
wave of Bird Flu, and fears, hits Europe | 
