This is a pretty frightening happening..... it seems to be changing by the hour, with new countries being added to the list of having confirmed cases.

I don't mean to make light of it, so if you take umbrage, I'm sorry but I just gotta say it

I just heard that added to the list of countries comfirming 'Swine Flu" is the country of Israel.....

Israel ???? Pig, Pork, Swine,,,,,,, Israel???? are all the little piggies going around and saying 'paybacks are hell'

This definitely has people worried, Toopeekaa. I was reading an email from friends in Mexico yesterday where schools are closed and people are frantically trying to acquire masks and a drug that apparently has an effect on this particular strain of the virus.

But already there is a short supply of both the masks and the medication and even Vitamin C, as people try to shore up their immune system.

I'm glad I have a good stock on hand, but am thinking of getting more. I know I'm not exactly partial, but the Vitamin C mentioned in the link in my Sig File (which is Coffee Break's, by the way) is incredibly effective since it's non-acidic, so while it's busy building your immune system it isn't tearing down your system's ph balance.

One news site quoted a doctor as saying the common masks available aren't even that effective against small, airborne particles, and now I wish I had made note of it, but the article added that there is a better one.

Let's hope we all won't be needing them soon.

Tula

On another forum I frequent, people are trying to be proactive and come up with suggestions and the question was raised if Nopalea would be of any benefit during this pandemic...

I actually didn't know, but just this morning found out something I hadn't fully appreciated before. I was listening to a presentation by Dr. Brazos Minshew, the Chief Science Officer at TriVita and the man behind the development team of all TriVita products including Nopalea.

One thing he stressed is that Nopalea is not for disease management, but rather its main benefit comes from the 24 betalains that it contains and how it can control both the low grade, long term, chronic inflammation that causes autoimmune disease, and the short term flair ups that create any condition that ends with 'itus', for example, arthritus, tendonitus, colonitus... etc.

So where it comes into play with the Swine Flu is not that it will treat the illness itself, but that it can help control the inflammation that creates difficulty breathing and organ collapse... thus Nopalea can provide relief of the symptoms and aid in recovery.

Nopalea is pure fruit and has no additives... so if you want to test the benefits of Nopalea on a serious condition that you suffer, or something like the Swine Flu, there are no 'overdose' issues*, so you'll likely have better results by taking several ounces a day until the symptoms are relieved and then drop down to a maintenance dose of 1 or 2 ounces a day.

Keep well! Tula

PS: If you'd like a link to full recording of this call, shoot Coffee Break a PM with an email address. He should have that recording available for you sometime tomorrow. Dr. Brazos Minshew is not only an amazingly knowledgeable scientist, he knows how to explain things in layman's terms. Wish he was my doctor!

Quote:First confirmed case of swine flu in Australia

A NEW South Wales woman has tested positive to swine flu in Australia's first confirmed case of the illness.

The woman flew into Brisbane from Los Angeles on flight QF16 on Thursday and tested "weak positive'' to the human swine influenza.

Experts say the woman is no longer infectious and had a weak strain of the virus, however passengers who were sitting close to her on the flight and her family members were being contacted by authorities.

Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon said the woman, who cannot be identified for privacy reasons, contracted the disease in late April while overseas and had recovered before returning to Australia.

The woman identified herself to a nurse at Brisbane Airport, Ms Roxon said.

Results from the World Health Organisation (WHO) laboratory in Melbourne came back positive at 1am (AEST) today, she said.

"The strain of the flu has been identified in the sample but at a very low count," Ms Roxon said.

"This is clearly a serious development but we are in a situation where the best medical advice seems to indicate that this person wouldn't be infectious.

"This is a situation that we have constantly been advising the public was inevitable."

Queensland's chief health officer Dr Jeannette Young said the woman had tested "weak positive" to the human swine flu influenza.

The woman began experiencing symptoms while in the United States on April 27.

She was screened and swabbed at Brisbane Airport, given a mask and went to stay with her family, who live in Brisbane, while awaiting test results.

Queensland Health will contact the people sitting in the rows in front and behind the woman on the flight and will ask them whether they have any flu-like symptoms.

"Because we're taking every precaution, we will be contacting passengers from the same flight sitting close to the woman, and her close family, to check if they have had any illness and alert them to seek medical advice if they become unwell," Dr Young said.

"While advice from state and commonwealth experts is that other passengers are highly unlikely to become unwell because the woman was not infectious when she got on the flight, any other passenger on the flight with concerns can contact 13 HEALTH or visit their local GP."

Some 567 people have been tested for swine flu in Australia and 544 have been cleared.

Eighteen people are still awaiting test results.

Australia's chief medical officer Jim Bishop has advised Ms Roxon that Australia should not step up its swine flu response measures.

The WHO said overnight that 2500 people in 26 countries had tested positive for the influenza A (H1N1) virus.

Source: News Limited May 09, 2009