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POPSUnited Kingdom Prepared For Influenza Pandemic The World Health Organization (WHO) has gave credit to the UK's readiness for future influenza pandemics. Englishmen may be relieved to hear that the United Kingdom is among the best prepared countries in the world for a future influenza pandemic.
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POPSTwenty Five Online Health Informatics Resource Collections The use of electronics has become increasingly important for the health field. For those interested in the field of health informatics, these 25 sites provide valuable information regarding data, statistics, as well as articles concerning public health and safety.
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POPSPandemics more likely in today's 24/7 world - Haiti is flashpoint #1! Used to be that when we wanted to ignore the impact of disease and starvation someplace - we could and not worry about it effecting anything more than our morals/ethics. When 450 people who attend a wedding in the Dominican Republic - get cholera that came from Haiti - and then are in Venezuela, Spain, Canada, USA and Mexico within 24 hours - get the picture? Help Haiti - because we should and to protect ourselves as well.
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POPSWeb Bot Project Predictions and 2012 Dire Web Bot Predictions: # 2010/??/?? : The "Death of the Dollar" will be a continuing trend, with a hyper inflationary period and banking crises/confidence losses that will begin in August 2009. # 2010/08/?? : In South America, they'll be large or mass sightings of UFO-related phenomena. A video crew will interview an escapee from an internment facility. The young bald man will later be revealed to be a "non-Terran" human. # 2011/05/?? : Magnetosphere problems could lead to ultraviolet scorching of food crops. Grain crops will fail, mainly in the Northern Hemisphere, leading to food riots in the winter/spring. # 2011 - Extra-terrestrial aliens presence and/or warfare possible. # There will be an untimely demise for millions by 2012, brought upon by some combination of pandemics, economic collapse, breakdown of health care and unknown energies from space.
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POPSInstead of calling it swine flu, maybe they should call it WHO flu Why would the WHO call H1N1 a pandemic? It obviously has not come anywhere near to being as wide-spread as predicted. Is it politically motivated? Anyone have any ideas? I don’t generally go in for conspiracy theories except to muddy the waters, but I’m thinking this could have been a test to see how many people get behind what the government tells us to do. Or, the government will say that the pandemic was stopped because so many people took the vaccine. Whatever. Now, a real conspiracy theorist would say that the vaccine was an excuse to inject a tracking device in us. :)
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POPS"Risk from swine flu vaccine 'greater than catching virus"
Showing World Health Organisation (WHO) graphs about the rise and fall of the H1NI virus around the world, he told his audience that staying informed was the most important thing anyone could do regarding potentially risky infectious diseases. He suggested there may be a lot of under-reporting of the H1N1 virus now in cases where the symptoms are relatively mild. “It seems that a lot more people have had the virus undetected than the WHO thinks and if this is the case, we won’t see a second wave of the H1N1 virus because so many people will have developed the antibodies against it.” He also questioned the potential effectiveness of a vaccine based on the current strain of the H1N1 virus if a more virulent form of the virus develops. “The real risk is if the virus is transferred back to pigs and from them back to humans again. The current strain has probably been circulating in pigs for 10-17 years, according to a paper in Nature Biotechnology,” said Dr Verkerk.
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POPSH1N1: Sorry, we don't have a line item for That. Creating ways for healthful lifestyle habits to be the natural first choice for Americans is the goal of a $650 million initiative of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will be used to increase physical activity, improve nutrition, decrease obesity, and decrease smoking in U.S. communities. And then, on the same day Dr. Frieden was doing his best Oliver Twist before Congress: $120 Million for States Made Available as Part of Recovery Act Community Prevention and Wellness Initiative Now, the H1N1 is one of the more anticipated, slow-moving ‘pandemics’ in history. It hasn’t even really hit and it seems like old news. Surely, some of that $650 million in grants for ’healthy choices’ could have been used to, you know, actually keep people healthy.
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POPSLearn to Relax Let's face it, we all get anxious. It is hard to imagine living a normal life in this day and age without some kind of anxiety provoking situation popping up. It is all about what we do with it vs. if we will have it, right? What do you do to relax? Does it matter if you are introverted or extraverted? Does how much money you have help or hinder? Share by clicking the comments link or tweet us at http://www.twitter.com/thirstyfishinfo
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POPS9 reasons to REworry about H1N1 flu – and 7 things to do about it More: This virus doesn't like to grow in a dish…defies our attempts to mass-produce…we're not likely to have the kind of dead-virus amounts we usually have for both research and vaccine development… The H1N1 threat has made nations aware of the perils of having all vaccine development centered in only a few countries… H1N1 covered the globe in a record pace… containment of H1N1 is only a dim fantasy. It has so saturated our population that 6-8% of Americans are believed to be already infected. This flu season, somewhere between one-in-ten and one-in-four Americans are expected to get it. Although the numbers are controversial - both in terms of being both too high and too low, current estimates predict that 5 out of every 1,000 infected people will die from it… The numbers are going up, here and abroad. Click through for the "what to do".
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POPSGonzo Gastronomy: How the Food Industry Has Made Bacon a Weapon of Mass Destruction
Rolling Stone paints a grim picture of what goes on inside a hog CAFO: "Sows are artificially inseminated and fed and delivered of their piglets in cages so small they cannot turn around. Forty fully grown 250-pound male hogs often occupy a pen the size of a tiny apartment. They trample each other to death. There is no sunlight, straw, fresh air or earth. The floors are slatted to allow excrement to fall into a catchment pit under the pens, but many things besides excrement can wind up in the pits: afterbirths, piglets accidentally crushed by their mothers, old batteries, broken bottles of insecticide, antibiotic syringes, stillborn pigs …" Manufacturing Pandemics Factory farms are a hot spot for new infectious diseases. According to a former chief of the Centers for Disease Control's Special Pathogens Branch, "Intensive agricultural methods often mean that a single, genetically homogeneous species is raised in a limited area, creating a perfect target for emerging diseases, whic
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