Many believe the H1N1 swing flu epidemic is all hype not real, in your face, not going to happen in my lifetime, farce. They are basing their beliefs on what has taken place in the world so far. Not too many people have died in other countries, so we don’t need to be too concerned.

While on the other hand there are those who think the H1N1 swine flu epidemic is real not hype. Their predictions are that ½ of the U.S. population can be affected by the flu virus. Just look at our ordinary flu season. There are many who get the regular flu. So if these same statistics on flu hold true in our country and if the swine flu is predominantly the one, we could be in for a long, hard flu season.

Which one is right? Many scientists believe the second group to be correct. They base their predictions strictly on the numbers game. They look at the number of people who get the flu in an ordinary flu season. They take the percentages of the number of mortalities annually for the U.S. from flu. Then they predict how many deaths could occur from the flu season.

It is all a matter of playing the numbers game. Or is it? The swine flu isn’t playing fair. Pregnant women make up 6% of the deaths to date. While young adults ages 20 to 49 are being hit hardest. Does this mean these groups of people are more at risk? So far they have been.

Some scientists say that if ½ of our population is affected by the swine flu, then we could see the death rates range from 30,000 to 90,000 in the U.S. Of course those figures aren’t that alarming unless the death rate climbs to 6%.

So is the H1N1 swine flu epidemic real or hype? We believe that you should begin to prepare your body just in case it is. Eat good healthy foods and stay away from processed foods and sugar. Keep your body in top physical condition. See your physician before you begin any change in diet or exercise program. Whatever you do, eat healthy my friends.

As I said at the end of 2008, the swine flu or H1N1 looks a lot like the pattern of the Spanish flu of 1918-19 which killed millions, when the population was a lot smaller. And this version has the potential of actually causing a “double dip” in the world economies. It is that strong with that much potential. And now we have a United Nations report that looks very serious. 

The swine flu pandemic could kill millions and cause anarchy in the world’s poorest nations says a UN report. The disclosure will provoke concerns that health officials will not be able to stem the growth of the worldwide H1N1 pandemic in developing countries. If the virus takes hold in the poorest nations, millions could die and the economies of fragile countries could be destroyed.

Millions could die right here in America too.

Gregory Hartl of WHO said the report required an urgent response from rich nations. “There needs to be recognition that the whole world is affected by this pandemic and the chain is only as strong as its weakest link. We have seen how H1N1 has taken hold in richer nations and in the southern hemisphere. We have been given fair warning and must act soon,” he said.

The report was drawn up by UN officials over the last two months. It was commissioned in July after Ban ki-moon, the UN’s secretary general, expressed concern that the H1NI virus could have a severe impact on the world’s poorest countries. It paints a disastrous picture for the world’s most vulnerable people unless there is immediate help.

The UN’s request for the money comes as the virus begins to establish itself in some of the world’s most vulnerable countries. Health officials said that the African continent had recorded 8,187 confirmed cases of swine flu and 41 deaths. Swine flu was declared a pandemic in June and has since been identified in 180 countries.

Pandemic experts believe that the western world, including Britain, is facing a second wave of the virus.

The “Spanish” influenza pandemic of 1918–1919, which caused 50 million deaths worldwide, remains an ominous warning to public health.

Meet the real killer in swine flu, H1N1, secondary infections. Many of the people who have contracted swine flu and then came up with a secondary infection, i.e. pneumonia, have not survived. Therefore, it is imperative that you take all the necessary precautions and guard yourself against getting another infection if you should contract the swine flu.

That’s right, the real killer isn’t necessarily the H1N1 Swine flu—rather secondary infections. You want to protect yourself at all costs against a secondary infection. Since you are already congested with the virus, it becomes so much easier to develop pneumonia.

One of the best ways to protect yourself from these complications is to prepare you immune system well in advance of the cold and flu season. There are several natural ways to build your immune system. Eating healthy is one way. A good balanced diet of 30% protein, 30% fat (no trans fats) and 30% carbohydrates works wonders at keeping you healthy. Avoid eating processed foods of any kind. Keep sugar and saturated fats out of your diet. You can use barley malt, date sugar, or raw honey to sweeten your foods. These and other natural sweeteners can be obtained online.

You would do well to keep potatoes completely out of your diet. Although they contain carbohydrates, the carbohydrates in potatoes are not good ones. Bread is another item you don’t need. If you must have bread, eat rye. It is the best choice.

Your diet becomes so important as does building your immune system with probiotics and elderberry extract. If you feel cold or flu symptoms coming on, begin taking Echinacea and goldenseal right away. Diffuse essential oils in your living quarters to keep others from becoming sick, and keep yourself hydrated. Drink coconut water and eat chicken soup for electrolytes. Eat only when you are hungry, and get plenty of rest.

Avoid secondary infections because they are the real killer in H1N1 Swine flu. Therefore, you must take care of yourself whenever you feel flu symptoms coming on. Stay home so you don’t give your virus to everyone else. Although there are a few methods to protect yourself from secondary infections here, there are so many more ways that you need to know. Begin checking out the ways to avoid the flu or secondary infections, now. As always, eat healthy my friends.

If you want a time-tested, proven method to cure the H1N1 swine flu virus, try homeopathics. In the 1918 flu epidemic, homeopathics were the go to drugs for the successful treatment of this virus. Several doctors from this era reported the success of homeopathics. Homeopathics works like an immunization. It gives the body a small dose of what your immune system needs to fight to help you get over the illness.

Homeopathics is a proven method that has been tested by time to cure H1N1 swine flu virus. There were two types that the doctors used during the 1918 flu epidemic: 1) Gelsemium and 2) Bryonia. One doctor in Ohio in the used only the Gelsemium strain in 1800 cases with only one death. He didn’t use anything else, not even aspirin.

Modern medicines are becoming ineffective at fighting viruses. However, homeopathics works with your immune system to help you fight bacteria, naturally. They attack viruses and relieve you of aches, fevers and pain. Gelsemium relieves body aches and headaches while Bryonia addresses irritability and body aches. That’s why it is good to find a natural product with both of these strains in it.

Homeopathics have been around for years. Discovered by a German Scientist in 1796, they have been used successfully to fight flu viruses. The best Bryonia strain should have Alba in it. You can find combinations of Gelsemium and Bryonia Alba online. However, be sure they are all natural. Another good thing about homeopathics is they are approved, inspected and tested by FDA in the U.S. Therefore, you can take them with assurance.

While you are taking homeopathics, continue to take your elderberry extract and probiotics. These products help build your immune system as you naturally become healed of the virus that has attacked your body.

Homeopathics are safe taken without assistance from physicians providing: 1) reliable company products are used and 2) as long as you are able to choose which homeopathic is for you. They are even safe for infants to use! Since they are naturally derived, you can use them with other medications, too.

During the 1918 flu epidemic caused by the type A flu virus, homeopathics were used successfully to establish a mortality rate of less than one (1) percent. Modern medicine didn’t fair so well with a mortality rate of 6 to 22%. Therefore, they are time-tested, proven viruses fighters. They worked extremely well then, and you can be confident they will work well today.

Homeopathics is a proven, time-tested method to cure the H1N1 swine flu virus. The success rate of these strains has been amazing over the years. They worked extremely well in 1918 to help people overcome the flu virus. Because they worked so well then, you can rely on them to work for you today. As always, eat healthy my friends.

The H1N1, better known as the Swine Flu, is coming soon to your business.

It is critical for all businesses to be prepared as the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the swine flu strain a pandemic. It has killed almost 1,800 people worldwide through mid-August 2009.

What is the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic? An epidemic occurs when a disease affects a greater number people than is usual for a locality or one that spreads to areas not usually associated with the disease. A pandemic is an epidemic of world-wide proportions.

Many companies developed their first pandemic plans after the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome scare, better known as SARS, back in 2003. Plans range from the very simple to the extremely complex, usually based on the type of business in operation or the expertise of those writing the plan.

What should be in a plan?

At a minimum you should address the following:

1. What to do with infected employees.
2. Preparation to reduce swine flu in the workplace.
3. When to close a facility or suspend operations.
4. Caring for infected family members.

Infected Employees

WHO has stressed that most cases of swine flu are mild and require no treatment. The problem for employers is figuring out who has the flu without violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, as violations can result in a big fine. Having a policy that requires mandatory reporting of exposure by an employee is a big risk. While that risk is reduced if being infected places other employees at a high likelihood of infection (e.g., those working in the medical field in close contact with others), case law is very unclear. The better course is to avoid a mandatory reporting policy.

If an employee volunteers their medical condition, that’s fine, but employers are not allowed to ask. Most companies want employees who even think they are sick to stay home. Some companies incent them to stay home by making sick leave available even if the company does not typically allow it or if the employee has used his allotment for the year. The swine flu pandemic should reinforce some basic behaviors and facts for businesses:

1. Sick employees who come to work are not as productive.
2. Sick employees are 10 times more likely to suffer a workplace injury or to injure another person.
3. Sick employees spread the disease to others, further impacting productivity.
4. Employees who do not take the proper time to become well stay sick longer and further negatively impact productivity.

While certain employees might take advantage of the swine flu to get a few days off on the company’s dime, you must manage to the majority of people who don’t lie. You do not want to be on the news for firing someone who has the swine flu.

Reducing the Spread of Swine Flu in the Workplace

Restrict business travel to any severely impacted area. If the Center for Disease Control (CDC) issues a warning as it did earlier this year for Mexico, stop business travel to that area.

Consider recommending that employees defer vacations to impacted areas. Some employers tell employees returning from trips to CDC-identified hot spots that they must wait a week before returning to work. This is pretty risky legally but is a possible strategy to reduce the chance of a swine flu outbreak at your company.

Like other strains of influenza, swine flu spreads mainly through person to person contact or by touching surfaces with the virus on it, then touching one’s nose or mouth.

Make sure that you emphasize the importance of washing your hands at all times. Provide hand sanitizer and wipes throughout your place of business. Have frequent cleaning of common areas such as bathrooms and break rooms. Shut off all water fountains and advise against the sharing of foods from employees’ homes.

When Should You Close Your Doors?

Only under the most severe conditions should a business consider suspending its operations. Those conditions would involve a situation where working employees known to be infected with the virus could seriously risk the health of customers.

A much more likely scenario is that a business would be working with a reduced or skeleton crew that is not infected but still providing services to customers.

Identify vendors who could provide temporary workers or determine how non-essential work could be delayed because of reduced staffing levels. Consider cross training employees to prepare for potential absences, especially if you have workers whose tasks are critical to the continued operation of the enterprise.

When Family Members of Employees Get H1N1

Employees with school-aged children may need to stay home to care for their children. The school situation could become more critical if a school actually closes as a result of the illness thereby making the employee responsible for care of a child during the work week even though their child may not be ill.

Employers should review leave policies for the flexibility to allow employees to stay home if they need to care for their children or other household members. If flu conditions are more severe, the guidance for school-aged children is that they should stay home for five days from the time someone in their home became sick. This guidance, however, does not apply to adults.

An employee with an ill household member may go to work, but it is especially important that these employees monitor themselves for illness.

Businesses need to develop action plans for widespread illness such as H1N1, as well as contingencies for business disruptions caused by natural disasters and weather conditions.

Man has been the whole cause of problems created in this world. Not even a single thing being causing damage to the earth other him. Even knowing the danger involved in certain things he still holds his foot firmly on his contentions.

Human beings are the ones who create pollution in land, making whole livelihood difficult. Swine flu is a kind of disease in pigs. Mind you that it is an endemic disease in pigs. But when pigs are eaten by human beings they cause a lot of health problems.

Once it affects the human beings H1N1 virus becomes very much active and spreads all over as quick as possible. It is a pandemic disease in human beings hence spreads to all parts of the world. H1N1 virus normally consists of hemagglutinin protein and the enzyme known as neuraminidase.

These things are the main reason causing the disease. Hence it has created fear in the hearts of the people all over the world. This flu was the main reason for many deaths in Mexico in the year 1919. A vaccine is the only way to tackle this deadly disease. So people queued in the places where vaccines are given out has been a very common sight.

Since America, being one of the countries to be affected very seriously, there are many places all over the country to distribute the vaccine. H1N1 vaccine locations are: Government authorized clinics, government hospitals. Hence prevention is always better than cure; hence having clean habits would surely prevent this disease.

Novel H1N1 or the swine flu is going to impact a ton of people this flu season particularly with the limited doses of a vaccine will that are available.  We already have widespread outbreaks in many universities and schools and it has become obvious that this flu is particularly fond of young people.  So what can you do to protect your family and friends.

Here are a few tips to help you out:

Tip Number 1:  Talk it Up!

Get with your family or roommates and discuss just how important it is to work together to keep all of you healthy.  Talk about what they can do outside the house to avoid  getting infected.  Talk about symptoms so they can stay a safe distance from sick people.  Talk about what can be done inside the house to avoid the flu.  Get everybody on board with the importance of preventing this disease.

Tip Number 2:  It’s Nothing Personal Honey!

Let everyone know that if they become infected, the rest of the family or roommates are going to behave differently.  They won’t get the hugs and kisses their used to.  The rest of the family is going to keep their distance.  The sick member may have to wear a mask.  Make sure they know it’s not personal but that big bad bug they are carrying around.

Tip Number Three:  Clean Up Your Act!

Keep a can of Lysol disinfectant or a box of disinfectant wipes next to every phone.  To be on the safe side, wipe the phone down before answering or using it.  Don’t share it or pass it around while you are on a call.  The same goes for computer keyboards and mice (?) that the family might share.

Tip Number 4:  Did You Get Under Your Nails?

Stock up on an alcohol based hand gel and make sure everyone in the family has one on them and uses it frequently.  The hands are the primary mode of transmitting the virus.  Avoid touching your face (this is a toughie as I must have touched my face or twirled my hair a dozen times since I started writing this) as the eyes, nose and mouth are the easiest points of entry for the flu.

Tip Number 5:  Build a Play Book!

You’ve got to have a plan to deal with any contingency.  If Bobby gets sick who’s going to bring him home and how are we going to deal with having to take time off work.  If Bobby is a college roommate, what are the roomies going to do?  Bunk somewhere else for a week?  You have to work this out now rather than after the event.

Tip Number 6:  Noah Had a Good Idea!

He stocked up the ark with enough supplies to last out the forty days and nights of rain.  As this pandemic starts affecting the general population, deliveries of goods and services might be affected.  Stock up on canned foods and any prescription medicines you might need.

The flu is here and you have an excellent chance of getting it because there isn’t enough vaccine yet.  Even when it arrives there won’t be enough to go around.  Now is the time to figure out how you are going to deal with it.

San Diego area schools may soon be distributing the H1N1 vaccine.

About half the school districts in the county, including the largest San Diego Unified, are currently in talks with the Health Department about moving forward with school based clinics.

The problem is that no one seems to know exactly when and how much vaccine will arrive.

Kids are among the most vulnerable when it comes to contracting swine flu, according to Mark Sawyer, M.D. of Rady’s Children’s Hospital. He believes it just makes sense to offer immunizations on school campuses.”Everybody is there and kids in school are all in the appropriate age group to get the H1N1 vaccine,” Sawyer said.

According to Jim Esterbrooks the spokesperson for the county’s office of education, the health department is working with 20 of the 42 districts in the county, but no agreements have been finalized.

With the vaccine so far in high demand, most parents and grandparents we talked with seemed to think the option was a good thing.

But,some say it won’t change their decisions on whether to get their kids immunized.

“I sort of think that the virus is going to gain momentum, and we’d rather have it now than after it gets stronger, if we’re gonna get it,” said Pacific Beach resident Maile Busby.

As part of the school based immunization programs there will be information for parents so they can make a decision about having their own child immunized.

“The bottom line for me is this vaccine is very safe, very effective, said Lee Carlson of Point Loma. “All school aged kids should be getting it.”

It’ll be next month at the earliest before districts can set up campus clinics.

Spokespersons from the San Diego Unified District and Chula Vista Elementary District both said they can’t plan logistics until they have reliable numbers of the availability of the vaccine.

People continued to flock to county health centers Wednesday for the vaccine. More than 21,000 people received the vaccine in just the past few days.

There’s a limited supply of the H1N1 vaccine here in San Diego and some are questioning whether people who are not considered a top priority have been getting vaccinated instead of those who need it most.

County health officials are reminding everyone that they’re only administering doses to high-risk individuals.

“A person could be a household contact with a child of less than 6 months we don’t ask them to bring the infant with them. If someone’s pregnant, if they’re not obviously pregnant, we don’t ask them for a pregnancy test,” said Wilma Wooten, M.D., M.P.H. with San Diego County Health & Human Services  Agency. “So we are asking people to be patient. Not to make assumptions that people that are in lines shouldn’t be getting the vaccine.”

At local public health clinics, workers are constantly trying to count the nasal spray and shots to make sure the right vaccine got to the right people Wooten said.

At this rate, the U.S. may actually meet its goal of 28 million doses by the end of the month, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

Additional vaccine shipments to private providers are expected in the coming weeks and to county health centers over the next several months.

First-priority will be given to pregnant women, children between 2 and 18 eyars without chronic medical conditions and healthy caregivers of infants less than six months old.