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Healthy People Taking Antibiotics May Spread Superbug Infection

(NaturalNews) Clostridium difficile, usually known as simply C. difficile, is a bacterium that spreads by bacterial spores. And a new study raises the disturbing possibility that antibiotics taken by people who aren’t even ill from these bacteria can spur the germ into becoming a kind of bacterial spore spewing mega factory. So why is this concerning? It’s true that C. difficile can exist in the human body and never make you sick. But it can also cause serious illness and even be fatal — and incidences are of the infection are increasing. What’s more, strains of the bacteria are showing signs of becoming a serious drug-resistant superbug infection.

C. difficile can cause illness when the germ grows out-of-control after a person takes antibiotics, especially fluoroquinolones, cephalosporins, clindamycin and penicillins. By killing off the normal body flora that should keep C. difficile in check, antibiotics can cause the bacteria to proliferate wildly and, when this happens, the bacteria produce toxins that attack the lining of the intestine. The result can be diarrhea, colitis and even death.

Although people who are elderly and already sick may succumb to C. difficile, just stopping antibiotics can help most people recover from the infection and taking probiotics can facilitate healing and restoring the body to normalcy, too. Ironically, however, in hopes of destroying the bacteria doctors often treat C. difficile with even more antibiotics, specifically heavy duty, side-effects heavy metronidazole (Flagyl) and vancomycin.

But these super powerful take-no-prisoners kind of antibiotics aren’t always able to zap C. difficile any more. According to the Mayo Clinic, an aggressive strain of the bacteria has emerged that produces far more deadly toxins than ever before. And this new strain has taken on characteristics of a superbug by showing resistance to antibiotics. Now research just published in the journal Infection and Immunity suggests that antibiotic treatment could be asymptomatically causing the transmission of huge numbers of C. difficile spores and contributing to the outbreaks that have recently been widely reported in hospitals and other environments.

Humans shed spores of this bacteria in their feces and these spores can survive dormant in the environment for long periods of time, under harsh conditions and in temperatures up to 70 degrees C. A new human host is infected when he or she happens to touch a surface contaminated with the spores and then touches and eats food or touches their lips.

Currently, healthcare professionals attempt to keep the threat of C. difficile under control by hand washing and by isolating patients who exhibit the symptoms of infection such as fever and diarrhea. But the new study suggests infection control in hospitals should include all patients receiving antibiotic treatment because these drugs could be causing even people with no symptoms of C. difficile infection to transmit large numbers of the bacteria’s spores.

“C. difficile is a highly resistant and highly infectious pathogen and resistant to many front line antibiotics,” explained Dr Trevor Lawley, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute researcher and lead author on the study, in a statement to the press. “Until now, animal studies have focused on the observable, acute symptoms of C. difficile. But, to understand how this highly infectious pathogen spreads, investigating the entire cycle of transmission is absolutely vital. We looked at mice carrying C. difficile and observed that they shed low levels of spores and, crucially, they did not infect other mice.”

The scientists treated mice with antibiotics and the balance of the microbial ecosystem inside the animals was thrown out of whack. Because C. difficile is now resistant to many antibiotics, the bacteria thrived, increased and dominated the microbiota of the mice — the same scenario that can happen in people.

The research team saw a dramatic rise in the levels of spores shed in the mice treated with antibiotics. The scientists have labeled the phenomenon a supershedder state which causes an increase in the transmission of C. difficile even in the absence of clinical symptoms. And the research raises the possibility that even after stopping antibiotics, the supershedder state could remain for some time.

“We treated mice with short and longer courses of antibiotics,” says Professor Gordon Dougan, Head of Pathogen Genetics at the Sanger Institute and senior author on the study. “After a short course most mice had dropped back to normal spore shedding levels around two weeks after cessation of the treatment. But after long term exposure to antibiotics some of the mice remained in their ’supershedder’ state for weeks or even longer after treatment was stopped. We should consider that patients still pose a considerable transmission threat some weeks after treatment is terminated even if they have not exhibited signs of C. difficile disease.”

The scientists also found that there was a considerable threat from environmental contamination from even short-term housing of supershedder mice. That suggests that even a brief environmental contamination with these high levels of spores is a potential infection threat.

“C. difficile is a high-profile and rapidly emerging pathogen and is responsible for the death of a patient every hour in our hospitals — but its biology and transmission are so far poorly understood,” says Brendan Wren, Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine’s Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases. “At last we can monitor the transmission of this major pathogen using a tractable model system. This will be invaluable in determining the role of spore formation in transmission and how and why some C. difficile strains are more virulent and transmissible than others.”

The scientists also used their study to test disinfectants commonly used in hospitals to see if they really work at controlling C. difficile infection. Alcohol-based disinfectants were found to not work at all in preventing transmission. Instead, it took a 20 minute treatment with a strong spore-killing agent to reduce environmental C. difficile spore contamination enough to eliminate transmission of the germs. Bottom line: the standard methods used in hospitals to supposedly protect patients, visitors and healthcare personal from exposure to C. difficile are probably useless.

“This research has far reaching implications for treatment and infection control of a pathogen that is increasingly raising alarm among the global healthcare community,” Cambridge microbiologist Fiona Cooke stated in the media release. She explained that the research provides a better understanding of the interactions between C. difficile, the intestinal microbiota and the immune system of the host. “This opens up numerous opportunities including the development of new probiotic approaches, which could restore the balance of the intestinal microbiota and promote health,”she said.

Editor’s note: NaturalNews is opposed to the use of animals in medical experiments that expose them to harm. We present these findings in protest of the way in which they were acquired.

Reference: Lawley T D et al. “Antibiotic treatment of Clostridium difficile carrier mice triggers a supershedder state, transmission, and severe disease in immunocompromised hosts.” Infection and Immunity. Published ahead of print, doi:10.1128/IAI.00558-09.

For more information: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Info/Press/2009/090721.shtml http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dhqp/id_CdiffFAQ_general.html http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/c-difficile/DS00736

Swine Flu Vaccine Linked to Paralysis, Leaked Memo Reveals

(NaturalNews) A warning letter about the swine flu vaccine was leaked to the DailyMail over the weekend. Written by Professor Elizabeth Miller, head of the Health Protection Agency’s Immunization Department, it warns neurologists that the influenza vaccine of 1976 was linked to a devastating neurological condition called Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS). “The vaccines used to combat an expected swine influenza pandemic in 1976 were shown to be associated with GBS and were withdrawn from use,” says the July 29 letter.

GBS can cause paralysis and death. One woman mentioned in the DailyMail story — Hilary Wilkinson — was stricken with GBS and had to be fed through a drip while needing a tracheotomy just to breathe. It took her three months in the hospital to learn how to walk and talk again. On the topic of the swine flu vaccine, she says today, “It makes me feel wary that the Government is rolling out this vaccine without any clear idea of the GBS risk, if any. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone… I’m frightened to have the swine flu vaccine if this might happen again — it’s a frightening illness and I think more research needs to be done on the effect of the vaccine.”

An 800 percent increase in GBS risk
A second letter has also surfaced with a warning about the swine flu vaccine. It’s from the Association of British Neurologists and is authored by Dr. Rustam Al-Shahi Salman and Professor Patrick Chinnery. It says “Following the 1976 program of vaccination against swine influenza in the US, a retrospective study found a possible eight-fold increase in the incidence of GBS.”

Adding to the concern, Dr. Tom Jefferson from the Cochrane Collaboration is on the record saying “New vaccines never behave in the way you expect them to. It may be that there is a link to GBS, which is certainly not something I would wish on anybody. But it could end up being anything because one of the additives in one of the vaccines is a substance called squalene, and none of the studies we’ve extracted have any research on it at all.”

In other words, what we really have with the swine flu vaccine is an untested, potentially dangerous cocktail of chemicals and viral fragments that could plausibly be linked to a devastating neurological condition.

These doctors and scientists are warning about the possibility of dangerous neurological side effects precisely because the government is failing to do so. Governments and pharmaceutical companies don’t want the People to know about any of the risks associated with the vaccine, so they don’t talk about them. Nor do they reveal the rather startling fact that the vaccine has never been tested on children or expectant mothers even though those are the two primary groups being targeted for the vaccine.

Vaccines = Modern medical quackery
Even today, most doctors in both the U.S. and U.K. insist there is no link between the 1976 vaccine and GBS. They say there’s “no convincing evidence” that the vaccine caused GBS. It’s the same story with vaccines and autism. Instead of examining the real reasons why autism’s rise almost perfectly mirrors the rise in childhood vaccinations, doctors simply dismiss any such link outright, without consideration.

Vaccines are the bedrock of the pharmaceutical industry’s profit centers. Through vaccines, the drug companies can ensure generations of future profits from diseases that are promoted or worsened by vaccines: Alzheimer’s, cancer, Parkinson’s disease, and so on. They can also, importantly, prevent people from taking responsibility for their own immune system health.

The vaccine approach to disease prevention implies that health cannot be experienced from within and must be achieved solely through intervention that just happens to involve paying money to drug companies. It is in this way that the real harm of vaccinations isn’t limited merely to those people who are paralyzed or killed by the vaccines… it also includes all those people who have been taught to delegate their immune system function to a corporation pushing dangerous chemicals for profit.

To question vaccines is to question the very foundation of western medicine, which paints people as victims requiring heroic intervention with synthetic chemicals (but only the ones that have been patented). The real harm in this medical philosophy is not merely all those people who are harmed or killed by the vaccines themselves, but in how many people are dis-empowered and taught to abandon any hope that their own bodies might be able to attain health through innate physiological wisdom.

In this way, the pharmaceutical industry has taught people to betray who they really are. They have convinced people that they are inferior biological beings who can only arise to greatness through chemical intervention. It is all a myth, of course, carefully weaved into the minds of the unaware through layer upon layer of cleverly crafted propaganda.

Its aim is to leave you nutritionally ignorant, victimized and helplessly addicted to a never-ending stream of chemical interventions justified by the invention of (mostly) fictitious diseases. That is the state of western medicine today.

Healthy people need no swine flu vaccine, nor seasonal flu shots. Ten years ago (or so), when I stopped getting flu shots and stopped allowing junk foods and pharmaceuticals into my body, my colds virtually ceased. For me today, getting sick is an ancient memory. Although I’ve experienced mild symptoms from time to time (usually after being in an immune-compromised state such as working too hard at a trade show), they’re nothing that can’t be cured by an hour of sunshine, a cup of ginger tea and a good night’s rest. I haven’t been floored by a cold or flu for longer than I can remember.

Swine flu is easily overcome through natural health. H1N1 is no match for a healthy, adaptable immune system that’s largely free from toxic chemicals and is boosted with the intake of superfoods, herbal remedies and quality nutritional supplements.

Sources for this story include:

Dailymail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1206807/Swine-flu-jab-link-killer-nerve-disease-Leaked-letter-reveals-concern-neurologists-25-deaths-America.html

Times: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/Swine_flu/article6797993.ece

H1N1 Swine Flu Scenarios: Best Case, Worst Case Predictions

(NaturalNews) When it comes to swine flu, the public predictions are all over the map: On one hand, governments don’t want you to be so worried that you start to panic and stay home from work, but they want you to be worried enough to submit to a vaccine injection.

Beyond the vaccine propaganda and the WHO’s agenda to prop up the profits of drug companies by seizing control of the intellectual property of influenza viruses, what’s really likely to happen this year as the virus spreads?

Here, I present some educated guesses on the best case / worst case scenarios we may see unfold with the H1N1 swine flu pandemic.

Best Case, Worst Case for your kids in public schools
Best Case: A few sneezers at school get isolated or masks are slapped on their faces. Infections are mild and deaths are few.

Worst Case: Mutating strains of the swine flu storm like a wildfire through the public school system, infecting tens of millions of children, killing tens of thousands, and shuttering the school system for much of the 2009 / 2010 school year.

Likely Case: (By “likely” I mean my own educated guess on roughly what seems to be the more probable outcome.) Some schools close due to spreading influenza, but most stay open. Lots of children are infected, but more children are seriously harmed by the vaccines than by the virus itself.

Best Case, Worst Case for the H1N1 swine flu severity
Best Case: The flu remains mild, killing no more people than season flu (which the CDC claims kills 30,000 Americans a year).

Worst Case: The flu quickly mutates to become resistant to both Tamiflu and the vaccines being given to people. It ramps up through December then hits hard in January and February when most people are vitamin D deficient. Over a billion people around the world become infected, and millions die.

Likely Case: While this is a very difficult prediction to make, I wouldn’t be surprised to see worldwide infections exceed one billion people. The total number of deaths is a wildcard. One million deaths worldwide from swine flu over the next two winters is not an unreasonable estimate based on historical accounts of pandemics.

Best Case, Worst Case for the Swine Flu Vaccine
Best Case: The vaccine performs as advertised by Big Pharma, protecting people from swine flu infections while harming no one.

Worst Case: The vaccine is worse than the swine flu itself. Rather than protecting people, it causes the death of many thousands (or even millions, if you subscribe to the population control theory on swine flu vaccines).

Likely Case: In my view, the vaccine itself is a real wildcard here. Testing has been extremely limited, and no long-term testing will be conducted at all before it is injected into people. The vaccine will most likely cause a few short-term deaths (people dying within 48 hours, for example), but the real issue may be the long-term risks of the vaccine. What happens six months later? Will it cause paralysis in some people? Will it harm immune system function or damage vital organs in a way that could not be detected in the short-term? That’s what I think the real risk is with the vaccine: What it does to you over time (if you survive the first 48 hours).

Best Case, Worst Case for the infrastructure of society
Best Case: Zero disruptions. A few people get sick, but they sleep it off and return to work. The power, water, public safety, food supplies and other key infrastructure components remain fully intact, barely skipping a beat.

Worst Case: Mad Max. Total collapse of complex society. The number of sick people surpasses a tipping point, leading to critical failures that cascade into larger failures. Before long, the complexity of modern society unravels, collapsing into a simpler society, along with a huge reduction in population from starvation and disease.

Likely Case: Temporary but serious disruptions in early 2010 as swine flu infections peak, sending a significant portion of the workforce home to recover. Expect random, local service outages and unpredictable delays in the delivery of food, fuel, and other essentials. Eventually, however, society will recover from the pandemic and go on to face other crises (such as the demise of the U.S. dollar and the looming debt crisis).

Best Case, Worst Case for hospitals and health care
Best Case: Few infections mean hospitals have plenty of capacity. The anti-viral drugs work well and the vaccines work as intended.

Worst Case: Hospitals overflow with the dead as local school gymnasiums are requisitioned for use as makeshift morgues (a la 1918). Hospitals become death zones where the virus spreads (and mutates). The virus quickly acquires immunity to Tamiflu while further mutations outflank all available vaccines. People attempting to enter hospitals are simply sent home to die.

Likely Case: Hospitals are stressed to near-breaking point status as infected patients flood into emergency rooms worldwide. Anti-viral drugs remain in short supply while hospitals become seriously short-staffed due to workers becoming infected themselves. Public service messages are aired to encourage infected patients to stay home and avoid flooding emergency rooms.

How to make it better for you in any case
Regardless of whether the “best case” or “worst case” scenario materializes (or something in between), note carefully that there is nothing mentioned here that you cannot survive if you’re well prepared.

Simply boosting your own health through the use of vitamin D, superfoods and targeted nutritional supplements can greatly increase your ability to stay off the “victim” lists and remain in control of your own health destiny. You can also insulate yourself against potential infrastructure failures quite easily through basic preparedness measures (food, water, heat, shelter, etc.) Check out our courses on pandemic preparedness to learn more on that topic: http://www.truthpublishing.com/Swine_Flu_the_Health_Ranger_LIVE_Teleconference_p/cd-cat21547.htm and this audio program with Dr. Sheldon Marks: http://www.truthpublishing.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=CD-CAT21548

Simple preparedness will help keep you safe, healthy and confident no matter what the swine flu pandemic brings. That’s the real message here: Be prepared, not scared! Plan for things in advance and they won’t bite you back. The coming H1N1 pandemic is no different: It’s something you can see well in advance. So plan for it, and you most likely won’t be surprised and harmed by it.

When the virus surges this fall, nobody can honestly claim “I didn’t know!” Everybody knows it’s coming. Yet the vast majority will do nothing to prepare, blindly putting their trust and faith in a failed health care system that only seeks to extract profit from the pandemic rather than actually teaching people how to get healthy enough to survive on their own.

Don’t be part of the “do nothing” crowd. Prepare now, and you’ll thank your living, breathing self later. Hopefully, after the winter of 2009 / 2010, we can all take a look back at articles like this one and say thank goodness the worst case scenario never unfolded.