Not More about Swine Flu

Just the latest facts for your interest
Startling news is breaking hourly about a new, mutated strain of the H1 N1
influenza virus, which was first reported in Mexico. The virus, common in
pigs, has mutated so that it now has the ability to infect humans and is
transmitted by contact or by coughing and sneezing.
The mutated H1 N1 strain has never been seen before. Therefore, human
immune systems don’t have the ability to recognize it. This leaves the human
population vulnerable to developing what has been referred to as “Swine Flu”.
Health authorities are already sounding alarms about the very real possibility
of the swine flu reaching epidemic or possibly pandemic proportions. (A
pandemic illness is one, which spreads over a wide geographic area and
affects a large proportion of the population.)
The 1918 “Spanish Flu” was a pandemic of Biblical proportions and caused
an estimated 50,000,000 deaths worldwide with over 500,000 of those being
in the United States. While there are now antiviral medications available,
which weren’t yet discovered in 1918, if the numbers of cases began to reach
the level of the 1918 pandemic, it is recognized that the supply of medication
wouldn’t be sufficient to treat the vast majority of those who became infected.
There are several precautions, which one can take to hopefully not contract
the swine flu, which include frequent washing of hands, keeping the hands
away from the face, coughing or sneezing into a tissue, which should be
disposed of, and the avoidance of crowds in any area where the illness has
been reported.
Research scientists also recognize that the best defense against contracting
any illness, including viral illnesses such as influenza, is to have a healthy,
vital and responsive immune system.
A simple thing that everyone can do is take Transfer Factors. Transfer
Factors have the ability to augment one’s immune system’s responsiveness
through stimulation of our first line of defense, natural killer cells. Recent
research has also revealed that Transfer Factors positively affect our humoral
immune system, which produces antibodies against invading pathogens.
The consumption of Transfer Factors during this potential pandemic of the
swine flu would appear to be a reasonable and recommended course of
action to best avert what could possibly be an infection with high morbidity
and mortality.
Rob Robertson M.D.

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