MRSA - a Quiet Enemy

Still Here.

More from a health site that I fing interesting. I didn't add any pictures - most unpleasant. Be aware MRSA kills more people here than AIDS. Bottom-line - iof you have an infection on the skin have it looked at pronto.

This staph has been around a long time. It is only now being defined by its relationship to a medicine thought to cure all. Doctors think in terms of drugs the salesman produces, these days. Its all about drugs, not health. On top of that, it is all about drugs used ten years ago. Doctors don't have time to read in their mad rush to pay rent, staff, insurance, and boat payments.

Death toll rises from antibiotic-resistant bacteria

...According to the CDC, the strain of common staph bacteria called MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) is now responsible for more deaths throughout the U.S. than the AIDS virus.

Research reveals that in 2005, MRSA infections caused 18,650 deaths nationwide. Meanwhile, the far more publicized scourge of AIDS killed 12,500 in the same time period. It's thought that nearly 32 out of 100,000 U.S. residents get MRSA infections each year - that's 94,360 infections - more than meningitis, bacterial pneumonia, and flesh-eating strep combined.

...And when the bacteria spread to bones, joints, vital organs or even the blood, it can cause complications that result in fatalities. Naturally, this makes immediate treatment critical.

Ultimately, the big problem here.. (is)... that these bacteria can so easily shrug off first-line antibiotic treatments.

But while you're not likely to see a Tom Hanks movie about a man's struggle and alienation from his deadly bout with MRSA, let me tell you this: the ramifications of a runaway form of antibiotic resistant staph bacteria are a lot scarier and more far-reaching than AIDS could ever hope to be.

MRSA is certainly nothing you want to mess around with, but you don't have to live in fear of it, either. To find out how to stay protected against this deadly superbug, read my article, "Your best protection from MRSA."

Best Protection summaried:

1. Lactoferrin. All of your body's invaders (bacteria, viruses, pathogens, even cancer) require iron to grow. Lactoferrin holds onto that iron, basically cutting off the invader's food supply.

For prevention, take one 100-mg capsule twice a day. Double the dose if you come down with something. {its in breast milk}

2. Elderberry...The study done on Sambucol showed that it shortened the duration and lessened the symptoms of 10 different strains of the influenza virus....

3. Chamomile tea. A study published in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry showed that chamomile tea increases antibacterial activity in your body...

4. Homeopathy. There's plenty of controversy around this alternative health therapy.... (which) involves using formulations made from diluted strains of viruses and bacteria to build the body's resistance....

5. Sleep. Don't shrug this one off. Getting a good night's sleep is one of the best ways to build your body's immune system....

Taking these steps isn't going to guarantee you against MRSA. But believe me, prevention is better than cure - especially with this infection.

Big Brother Problems

I get a nutty email (with good health observations) that I won't scare you with. Rather below is an excerpt you can check, if you like. Since I like the information, I will believe it without any questions.

I could not figure out the mania to put cameras all over, to monitor our streets, when they do nothing useful in our town.

In some places the camera can issue a ticket if it catches a car doing something bad. The owner becomes liable.

I knew some sort of conspiracy was afoot, but did not worry as the lights, at least in Saratoga, could not possibly be monitored, though the police stick an officer at a monitor station. Apparently, I missed the point...

Researchers in Florida have found that those Orwellian red-light cameras have significantly increased traffic accidents at the intersections where they've been placed.

Researchers from the University of South Florida College of Public Health concluded that "rigorous studies clearly show red-light cameras don't work." And yet these lights are showing up at more and more intersections nationwide.

According to USF professor Barbara Langland-Orban, one of the lead authors of the study, the cameras actually "increase crashes and injuries as drivers attempt to abruptly stop at camera intersections." Langland-Orban says the problem is compounded in Florida by the fact that "the state's high percent of elderly are more likely to be injured or killed when a crash occurs."

And in compiling their research, USF found that Florida isn't the only place where these traffic-light cameras are a safety issue. Studies from North Carolina, Virginia, and even Ontario, Canada, also reported that the traffic-light cameras have played a significant role in the increase of intersection crashes in those cities, including a rise in crashes that involve injury and excessive damage.

The lobbying group out there to support traffic-light cameras is the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). ... And the insurance industry LOVES traffic-light cameras, because its revenues skyrocket every time some poor schmuck runs a light and gets another moving violation tacked on to his license. The more points on your license, the higher the premiums you have to pay. Follow the money!

Apparently, the findings that were unearthed by the USF study have been unearthed before. Langland-Orban said that a paper published in 2001 by the Office of the Majority Leader of Congress called traffic-light cameras "a hidden tax levied on motorists," and even determined that the cameras are associated with increased incidents of traffic accidents.

Return of Gene

Hi, I am back, sort of.

I will cut and paste stuff for now, as typing is a great time waster.

Below is a piece I got from Irene part of which which I threw in. I have 200 unread letters so I probably have good info to use. If you want the whole article click HERE. The author is the same Corsi who wrote the Swift Boat book, so he had some cred as an iconoclast. My point is not that we should all burn oil, but that the reports of its death are greatly exaggerated. As pointed out by Kunstler, the local trouble-maker, it does does not matter if we are past peak oil, which he thinks, the fact that oil concern is one of popular concern, the prices will gyrate like crazy. He has been proven right.

Of course, it doesn't help that we block refineries and drilling. The KGB did well in supporting the anti nuclear movement, as well. Jim Kunstler admits the only viable technology to pursue, at this time, is nuclear. We just need to move to small, local reactors, as found in navy ships. They are safe, can't really melt-down in a China syndrome and can be underground and not a terrorist target. The waste problem is more than manageable, as fuel lasts 20-30 years and half lives are in dozens of years not millenia.

Billions of gallons of oil in North Dakota, Montana
Geological Survey calls find largest reserves outside Alaska

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Posted: April 13, 2008
10:31 pm Eastern

By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2008 WorldNetDaily

A shale formation stretching North Dakota and Montana may have an estimated 3.0 to 4.3 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil, according to a U.S. Geological Survey assessment.

Known as the Bakken Formation, this find would make the recoverable oil in North Dakota and Montana the largest United States oil reserves outside Alaska.

Map of Bakken Formation in northern United States, courtesy Grand Forks Herald

The recently released assessment shows a 2,800 percent, or 28-times increase in the amount of oil recoverable from the Bakken Formation, compared to the agency's 1995 estimate of 151 million barrels of oil.

According to the USGS, the dramatically increased estimate of recoverable oil in the Bakken Formation results from new geological models, advances in drilling and production technologies, and recent oil discoveries.

By the end of 2007, approximately 105 million barrels of oil have been produced from the Bakken Foundation.

"The Bakken Formation estimate is larger than all other current USGS oil assessments of the lower 48 states and is the largest 'continuous' oil accumulation ever assessed by the USGS," said a news release

The Bakken Formation lies in "Williston Basin," a geological making the announcement. formation in the north central United States, underlying much of North Dakota, eastern Montana, northwestern South Dakota, and southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Canada, according to the Energy Information Administration of the U.S. Department of Energy.

The EIA attributes the success of horizontal drilling and fracturing efforts in Montana as the reason a decision was made to re-evaluate the 1995 USGS Assessment of Resources that had estimated only 151 million barrels were technically recoverable from the Bakken Formation.

Lynn Helms, the director of the oil and gas division of North Dakota's Industrial Commission told the Grand Forks Herald the USGS announcement had prompted new interest from investment bankers and the oil industry.

(Story continues here)

G00d site: HERE