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KIDS SEND AGING PARENTS “SENIOR SWINE FLU PREVENTION PACKAGE”

September 14, 2009 – Remember all those care packages your parents sent you to heal a broken heart, feed you at college or make your birthday memorable? Now children/grandchildren can send aging  relatives a care package of their own with the Senior Swine Flu Prevention Package. Some senior groups complain senior citizens did not make the governmentâ??s priority list for Swine-Flu vaccinations. So senior care experts warn relatives itâ??s their job to keep elderly loved ones safe.

â??This seasonâ??s flu outbreak is a constantly changing dynamic situation and families must be vigilant, especially with seniors,â? says Peter Ross, CEO of Senior Helpers. â??If you have aging out-of-town relatives, send them a prevention care package and/or hire a caregiver to go into their home and help them take precautions. In- home caregivers are trained to spot symptoms and get seniors immediate help.â?

This year, The White House advised Swine Flu could infect half the U.S. population, hospitalize 1.8 million people and lead to as many as 90,000 deaths. The governmentâ??s vaccination priority list that left off seniors did include pregnant women, health care workers, people caring for infants, children and young adults from 6 months to 24 years and people age 25 â?? 64 with underlying medical conditions such as asthma or diabetes. Seniors are not as likely to get Swine Flu because they have some immunity, having been exposed to multiple flu outbreaks. Still, since April, the CDC reports more than 9 thousand U.S. hospitalizations from Swine Flu (not broken down by age).  Swine Flu has killed 593 people -  171 deaths in adults age 50-64 and 57 deaths in adults ages 65 and older. So Senior Helpers, the fastest growing provider of in-home care for seniors, says families should not take chances.

â??In this massive outbreak, we donâ??t want families to get lackadaisical about looking out for elderly loved ones,â? says Ross. â??If your aging relative gets really sick from Swine Flu, youâ??ll wish you had done something. The kit is one way to help protect seniors from Swine Flu and even seasonal flu, especially if you live apart from your aging relatives.â?

You can assemble the Senior Swine Flu Prevention Package for less than $20. For other prevention suggestions, go to www.Flu.gov.

The Senior Swine Flu Prevention Package includes:

Senior Swine Flu Tip Sheet (available to download at www.seniorhelpers.com) Latex gloves â?? to wear when opening doors, shopping, etc. to avoid picking up germs. Vitamins Hand Sanitizer â?? Pocket size bottles can easily be kept in purses, cars, briefcases and desks. Baby Wipes â?? Seniors should wipe down hands, door knobs, car doors, pens, etc..

About Senior Helpers:

Senior Helpers connects professional caregivers with seniors who wish to live at home as opposed to a nursing or assisted living facility. The company has 280 franchises in 38 states and offers a wide range of personal and companion care services to assist seniors living independently with a strong focus on quality of life for the clients and peace of mind for their families. Senior Helpers strives to be the leading companion and personal care provider that offers dependable, consistent and affordable home care. For more information, please visit: http://www.seniorhelpers.com/.

Browns hammered by flu

Just when it couldnâ??t get any worse for the woeful Cleveland Browns, it got worse.

The team has been sacked by the flu.

Coach Eric Mangini said 12 players, including Pro Bowl nose tackle Shaun Rogers and five other starters, are home with flulike symptoms and he plans to adjust his practice on Wednesday as the team prepares to face the Green Bay Packers this weekend.

Mangini is taking precautions to make sure his players get more rest and the team is taking extra measures to make sure others donâ??t get sick.

He implied that the players had not yet been tested for H1N1 virus.

â?? Weâ??re trying at the first signs of any kind of illness to get the guys home and out of the building,â? Mangini said. â??Weâ??re working as hard as we can to promote things to prevent the illness and impressing the importance of things like sleep. Itâ??s that time of year and unfortunately we have quite a few guys who are dealing with it. Weâ??ll adjust practice, weâ??ll work around it and continue to move forward.â?

The Brownsâ?? sick players are: Rogers, running back Jerome Harrison, center Alex Mack, cornerback Anthony Madison, safety Brodney Pool, tight end Robert Royal, wide receiver Chansi Stuckey, linebacker Jason Trusnik, defensive end Brian Schaefering, fullback Lawrence Vickers, defensive end Corey Williams and linebacker Kamerion Wimbley.

The NFL has provisions for teams that are overwhelmed by swine flu. League spokesman Greg Aiello said all teams received a memo from commissioner Roger Goodell on Oct. 2.

It states: â??If a club has at least six players unable to participate as the result of confirmed or suspected cases of swine flu, it can receive roster exemptions for those players and promote players from its own practice squad to replace them. A club can receive a max of 8 such exemptions. They must be medically confirmed cases of swine flu. This procedure does not apply to any other type of flu or illness. There is a deadline for promoting practice squad players pursuant to these procedures at four hours prior to kickoff.â?

As the Browns were practicing, a large box with white pharmacy bags containing Tamiflu, a prescribed medicine to treat and prevent flu, was delivered to the teamâ??s headquarters.

Moving closer to top pandemic alert as H1N1 – the Swine flue spreads globally

Moving closer to top pandemic alert as Swine flue spreads globally

H1N1, or more popular called the Swine flue has spread from its original places North America and Mexico to Australia, Britain, Chile, Japan and Spain and has moved the world closer to the top pandemic alert, the World Health Organisation said on June 2nd 2009.

Keiji Fukuda, acting WHO assistant director-general told that we are at Phase 5 but are getting closer to Phase 6.

There are a signals that a number of countries that appear to be in transition, moving from travel-related cases to more established community types of spread. Some of these countries are the countries been followed for quite a while, but also include countries such as the UK and Spain in Europe, Japan in Asia, Chile in South America and also Australia.

According to the latest figures from WHO, the new influenza strain, also known as swine flu, has been found in 64 countries, and remains most prevalent in North America. WHO laboratories have confirmed nearly 19,000 infections including 117 people who have died.

Those figures might not show the full reach of the contagious disease that has afflicted young people more than normal seasonal flu, and has caused mainly mild symptoms as it has spread around the world.

WHO can not tell the full number of people who are infected across the entire spectrum and they expect that the future impact of this infection has yet to unfold.

The WHO is working on revamping its six-point pandemic scale so that the top alert reflects the severity of the flu and not just the geographical pattern of its spread.

WHO works on the idea to add a three-point severity scale within the highest marker, so that the overall level could reach 6 even if the flu’s symptoms remained moderate, and it could be adjusted later if it had more serious effects.

It is not enough just to say we are at a certain phase and that a virus has spread to a certain extent. That kind of announcement really has to be accompanied by some indication of what is the severity, and some guidance to countries on how they can modify their approaches to what is going on.

The latest country to report a case was done by the Health Ministry of Ukraine who reported that it is with 99 percent certainty that the first case of H1N1 flu was registered in Ukraine as of May 30th 2009.  An 24 years old Ukrainian who had spent two years in the United States returned to Ukraine a week ago was tested with symptoms. The case will be verified within two to three weeks. The man had been in contact with more than 70 people who were now under observation. None had reported any flu symptoms.

H1N1 (Swine Influenza) Market Assessment (Latest Data, Company Profiles, Implications For Immunoassays And Molecular Assays)

The outbreak of H1N1 (swine flu) highlighted the public health importance of improved testing techniques and providing market opportunities for manufacturers of diagnostic tests and other products related to the disease. These conclusions and others appear in a new report released from Kalorama Information: Swine Flu Market Alert by Kalorama’s lead analyst, Shara Rosen.

Regardless of the eventual severity of the epidemic, there will be distinct market impact on both immunoassay and molecular test makers, according to the report. The makers of certain tests will benefit both in terms of sales and more broadly in recognition that their products play a vital role in making the public health community significantly better prepared for this possible pandemic than 1968 or before.

The report examines:

Market Impact likely for immunoassays and molecular testing.

Lessons from previous epidemics, likely impact on both immunoassays and molecular testing.

Overview of the H1N1 strain as compared to other.

Immunoassay and Molecular Test Products Available on the Market

Developments in the last few days of significance to the diagnostic industry.

Profiles of nearly 25 specific manufacturers active in this space.

The report focuses almost exclusively on the in vitro diagnostic industry as it applies to work being done by commercial entities and products that are either in development or have been brought to market.

The market assessment provided has been assembled based on publicly available information. Company sales data and other quantitative evaluations of the markets for flu diagnostics have been developed based on publicly available information and are expressed in US dollars, no adjustments have been made for currency exchange fluctuations.

Under normal circumstances, a report of this genre would be assembled from information derived from primary and secondary sources. However, in the short time it took to research and write this report, almost all of the major scientific and industry experts were occupied with the extraordinary task of preparing for a pandemic.

Therefore the information contained in this report has been assembled from a vast array of scientific and market publications, government sources, analyzed by a professional analyst.

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Natural Cure For Flu

Of the drugs acting on the virus itself & its reproduction of the proof of the effectiveness. In its absence, WHO experts recommended that the drug Zanamivir (Relenza), with a relatively mild work of illness doctors recommend that post-Soviet countries arbidol, despite the fact that it applies to drugs with unproven efficacy, & WHO does not think about it as an antiviral drug.

In Ayurveda, health ailments like swine flu are because of weakened immunity that the body cannot withstand against the attack of illness causing germs. Ayurveda, as always, believes in strengthening the body systems that fight & win the battle against H1N1 Virus.

First a small history, it is not a new flu at all, lots of conspiracy types seem to think the government has concocted this super bug for some dastardly reason but this is not the case. A flu outbreak occurred in the 70s as well as in France in 1918 called the French flu.

This is completed by prescribing various digestive fire strengthening herbs such as Guduchi (licorice), Tulasi (Holy Basil), Sahadevi, Neem (Indian Margosa Tree), Shunthi (ginger), Pippali (pepper) etc. Four times the digestive fire is corrected; medicines such as Triphala, Rasna, Eranda, and Guggulu can be prescribed to relieve the symptoms.

Herbal medicines like Chirayta (Swertia chirata), Tulsi (Ocimum sanctum), Pippali (Piper longum), Vishwa (Zinziber officinalis), Haridra (Curcuma longa), Som (Ephedra vulgaris), Dhatura (Dhatura fastiosa) & Kantakari (Solanum xanthocarpum) can also be used for this purpose.

The Ayurvedic treatment of swine flu is aimed at treating the symptoms, controlling the virus, & preventing complications by boosting the immune status of the body. Medicines like Tribhuvan-Kirti-Ras, Sitopaladi-Churna, Triphal-Guggulu, Maha-Sudarshan-Churna, Shwas-Kuthar-Ras, Laxmi-Narayan-Ras, and Sut-Shekhar-Ras & Samshamani-Vati can be used to treat the flu-like symptoms of fever, bodyache & cough.

There’s some actions that you can take on your own without your doctor’s advice. The H1N1 Swine flu is spread through the air & on contact. The most obvious preventive actions are to wash your hands often & wear a mask. Those four actions are effective.

Gastro-intestinal symptoms can be treated using medicines like Panchamrut-Parpati, Kutaj-Parpati, Kutaj-Ghan-Vati, Laghu-Sutshekhar-Ras & herbal medicines like Vishwa, Kutaj (Holarrhina antidysentrica), Musta (Cyperus rotundus) & Bilva (Aegle marmelos).

However, our culture doesn’t wear face masks as other cultures do, to keep from spreading a illness, or to keep from catching a illness. Washing our hands works well when in contact with others, but often they forget to do that after answering a phone or opening a door. It still amazes me the number of people using the restroom who don’t wash their hands – but, that is another story.

The trouble is, the preliminary results of these types of these tests have been poor. It was determined that lots of false negative results, as lots of as half, occurred on a regular basis. In other words, the check failed to detect known swine flu in laboratory conditions, meaning a negative check at the doctor’s office would not actually guarantee that you don’t have the swine flu.

H1N1 Virus – Pandemics and the Workplace

In this video, www.WatchMojo.com learns more about pandemics, and discusses the issue of planning in case your office is hit with the swine flu bug.

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