Yesterday when I was watching the news on TV, I was really apalled. In Mexiko, in Egypt, in China … states of emergencies, mass slaughter of pigs, deserted public places, people with face masks, shear horror on the screen. They count the deceased penny by penny, they revise the figures day by day. There is a chaos of opinions and hear and say around us, to whom to listen, whom to trust? It seems all so very arbitrary. Some countries practice de-escalation others escalation.
A blog post from the New Scientist tries to sober the situation a little bit. I like that.They say that the name swine flu is very misleading and misleading is the term influenza A (H1N1).
The WHO officially adopted the term “influenza A (H1N1)” instead of swine flu. But there are many different H1N1 strains out there infecting humans, pigs and birds. The 1918 flu was H1N1, for instance. So to avoid ambiguity, the strain now spreading around the world should at least be called 2009 H1N1 flu.
Who moved the pig on this stage? No pig got sick up to now. One pig seems even to have been infected by a human. It is said, the rumor goes, or is it a scientific fact already, that the virus is built from human, swine and bird DNA. It is said the virus is aggressive. Is it more aggressive in the sense of lethal than cardiovascular diseases or tumors?
Virus-host Interactions determine the outcome
The virus is just there, its behavior is not intentional, a virus is not even a cell, it is no living organism. Isn’t it more likely that the interaction between our immune system/organism and the virus is hampered and may determine the outcome, and that this outcome may be a disease. Thus, be it lethal or not depends on the condition of the organism.
Biestmilch / Colostrum is powerful food stuff and strengthens your immunity
I pick up this rather sensitive and delicate issue here because there is a clinical study with biestmilch as a preventive measure. The study results underline the assumption that a strong and healthy immunity spares you from coming down with a flu and it turns out to be even more effective than the vaccine*.
For the time being it is impossible to assess the current situation and development around the swine flu. Nobody can look into the future, and of course, we are always wiser when we are analyzing a situation by looking back later. What we can do now, I think, at least in our countries where we are not starving and can afford healthiness, is to take care of our immune system. Biestmilch is one option.
*M. R. Cesarone, G. Belacaro, U. Cornelli, et al.: Colostrum is effective in preventing a flu – a comparative study with colostrum vs flu vaccine, „San Valentino Epidemiological Study ”. Italian Medical Gazette, Ed. 164, Nr. 3, June 2005
