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Medical Experts: Worst Flu Season in History

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By Hal Turner  /  My Daily Informer

Medical experts in the United States are worried that this year’s flu season could be the worst in US History as 46 states already report Flu outbreaks. This year’s main flu strain, the influenza A virus, known as H3N2, is worse than the swine flu in 2009.  As I announced during my radio show last Wednesday, I have this year’s Flu.  While I seem to be getting much better now, it has truly beaten the hell outta me for a couple weeks.

To put it in perspective, back when the swine flu was making headlines it infected just 51,000 people in Australia. This year’s H3N2 sickened over 215,000 and the illness has hit our shores. 

Reported cases in some states, like Arizona, are up more than 758 percent over this time last year, and the CDC reports the flu is in widespread conditions in 46 states, including California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Virginia, as of Dec. 30, 2017. To make matters worse, the flu vaccine is not proving to be very effective against this year’s main strain, because of a virus mutation. In Australia it has been effective in only 10 percent of cases, reports The New England Journal of Medicine. The vaccine now being administered to Americans uses the same formulation.

With news mounting of this season’s flu being a particularly virulent one — evidenced by overcrowded emergency rooms and an uptick in related deaths across the country — it’s eerily ironic that this year marks the 100th anniversary of the 1918 global influenza pandemic. Also known as the Spanish flu, the worldwide outbreak infected an estimated 500 million people, nearly a third of the planet’s population then, and killed between 50 million and 100 million victims. More than 25 percent of the U.S. population was sickened, and about 675,000 Americans died. 

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While no public health officials are declaring the current flu to be a pandemic, this strain is historically more difficult to fight than others. Australia, for instance, just came through its flu season, reporting record-high numbers of cases of the same H3N2 virus and higher-than-average numbers of hospitalizations and deaths.

The United States is experiencing a similarly “early and robust start to this flu season,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health. “It has all the markings of being a severe season.”

A string of bad flu seasons has Dr. Fauci and other medical experts calling for the development of a universal influenza vaccine that would save lives. Each year, on average, 5 percent to 20 percent of the U.S. population contracts the flu, tens of thousands are hospitalized, and between 3,000 and 49,000 Americans die from flu-related illness, according to the CDC. The flu strikes indiscriminately, but young children, the elderly and the chronically ill are most vulnerable.

Caring for the sick is costly. The CDC estimates that the flu costs the United States $10.4 billion a year in direct medical expenses and another $16.3 billion in lost earnings annually. A chunk of those billions is spent formulating, growing and distributing millions of doses of the annual flu vaccine, which from year to year reduces the risk of illness by 40 percent to 60 percent at best. The flu vaccine is the only one that has to be reformulated and administered every year. Most of the vaccine is grown in eggs, an arduous process that takes around six months.

The definition of a universal flu vaccine is somewhat flexible. Ideally, a single injection would protect against all known and emerging influenza A strains and last a lifetime, said Peter Palese, a microbiologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. More modest proposals envision a one-shot vaccine that would protect against getting the flu for anywhere from three to 20 years.

Palese’s laboratory is one of three different research groups at Mount Sinai exploring a universal flu vaccine and one of numerous efforts under way mostly in academia, biotech firms and NIH. A handful of major pharmaceutical companies are supporting universal flu vaccine research, including GlaxoSmithKline; Janssen Vaccines, a division of Johnson & Johnson; and Sanofi.

Palese’s team has developed a universal flu vaccine that is now in the first phase of testing in humans, with support from GSK and the Gates Foundation. “What changes in the influenza virus from year to year is the hemagglutinin (HA),” Palese explained, “which is the major protein against which we make an immune response.”

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The HA comprises a head and a stalk. “When our immune system sees a flu virus, it makes antibodies against the head,” he said. Palese’s vaccine aims to stimulate antibodies that bind to the more “conserved” areas on the stalk and which remain the same every year and are common to most seasonal flu viruses. “We want to redirect the body’s immune response to the stalk.”

A different approach to the universal vaccine is under way at FluGen, a biotech firm in Madison, Wisconsin. Backed by both government and VC funding, the company is working with technology first discovered at the University of Wisconsin-Madison by Dr. Yoshihiro Kawaoka and Dr. Gabriele Neumann and exclusively licensed to FluGen. “Our vaccine, called RedeeFlu, is based on a premise that says what happens if you take a [naturally occurring] ‘wild type’ of flu virus and modify it to infect the human body but don’t allow it to replicate and cause illness,” said Boyd Clarke, executive chairman of FluGen. (Coincidentally, his maternal grandfather died in the 1918 pandemic.)

Last October, FluGen announced that it was awarded $14.4 million by the Department of Defense to conduct human clinical challenge trials with RedeeFlu. In those studies, half of the participants will be vaccinated and half will receive a placebo, but all will subsequently be infected with an influenza virus. “We want to see if the vaccine prevents illness and replication of the virus,” Clarke said. “Based on pre-clinical trials, we have reason to be optimistic.”

On another front, this year the Human Vaccines Project, a New York-based nonprofit consortium of academic, government and industry medical researchers, is launching the Universal Influenza Vaccine Initiative. “The goal is to understand immunity to the flu and then convert that into a universal flu vaccine,” said Dr. James Crowe, a pediatric infectious diseases physician at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, and the director of UIVI. Similar to Palese’s approach, UIVI is targeting the more stable stalk region of the HA protein.

Although Crowe is dedicated to the eventual discovery of a universal vaccine, he also wants to focus on improving current vaccines. “The excitement in the field is making better vaccines for strains that are killing people right now,” he said. “Even modest improvements would save thousands of lives.”

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    • Anonymous

      Sorry HAL – But the CDC Numbers & Message of FLU Doom – has been totally De-Bunked
      >>>> at least THREE times on Before its news
      - in the last three days … 3X !!

      Please do not help propagate…. the CDC & Pharmaceutical – LIES & DECEPTION

      Publish “The TRUTH” On Here & your Website – Please.
      ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

      The CDC Puts out HOAX/FAKE Figure headlines

      - and the flu vaccine >>> “Doesn’t Work”
      ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————

      Peer Reviewed Science Medical Journal Published – USING CDC OWN DATA

      In 2001 Gov Claimed – 63,000 + died of Flu in the USA – The “Real” Truth >>> JUST 18 …. DIED OF FLU

      Read the >>>>> British Medical Journal (The BMJ)

      (BMJ 2005; 331:1412):

      “[According to CDC statistics], ‘influenza and pneumonia’ took 62,034 lives in 2001

      —BUT >>> 61,777 of which were – actually ….attributable to >>> pneumonia (NOT FLU)
      - and (JUST) >>> 257 to flu,

      ( and in only >>> 18 cases >>> was the flu virus …. positively identified.”)

      You see, the CDC has created … one overall category….. that combines both flu and pneumonia deaths.
      - Why do they do this?
      - Because they disingenuously “assume” (No Proof) that the pneumonia deaths are complications stemming from the flu.

      This is an absurd assumption. Pneumonia has a number of causes.

      But even worse, in all the flu and pneumonia deaths, >>>> only 18 revealed …. the presence….. of an influenza virus.

      Therefore, the CDC could not say, with assurance of PROOF
      - that any more than ,,,,, 18 people”” died of influenza in 2001. >>> Not 36,000 deaths. ….. JUST >>> 18 deaths.

      https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2018/01/15/massive-flu-outbreak-heres-the-real-story-the-media-wont-touch-the-lies-the-hoax-the-scandal/
      …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

      If you prefer – READ THE TRUTH in the Medical Journal “Advanced Practice Nursing”

      https://www.asrn.org/journal-advanced-practice-nursing/1212-do-not-believe-everything-you-read-about-flu-deaths.html
      ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

      See the chart on the left of the WSJ (Wall street Journal)
      - those “TINY” BLACK dots at the bottom of the bar chart – are REAL DEATH Certificate….. Reported FLU DEATHS.
      - Those huge RED Bars above
      - are the CDC reported media “Fear Porn” figures

      https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB124217724145913411
      …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

      Perhaps you will REDACT this article and replace it with the TRUTH >>> & On you WEBSITE

      Might restore some credibility to your name & Website

      https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB124217724145913411

    • Anonymous

      Sorry HAL – But the CDC Numbers & Message of FLU Doom – has been totally De-Bunked
      >>>> at least THREE times on Before its News

      - NB THREE Different BEFORE ITS NEWS CDC PROPAGANDA STORIES in the last three days … 3X !!

      Please do not help propagate…. the CDC & Pharmaceutical – LIES & DECEPTION

      Publish “The TRUTH” On Here & your Website – Please.
      ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

      The CDC Puts out HOAX/FAKE Figure headlines

      - and the flu vaccine >>> “Doesn’t Work”
      ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————

      Peer Reviewed Science Medical Journal Published – USING CDC OWN DATA

      In 2001 Gov Claimed – 63,000 + died of Flu in the USA – The “Real” Truth >>> JUST 18 …. DIED OF FLU

      Read the >>>>> British Medical Journal (The BMJ)

      (BMJ 2005; 331:1412):

      “[According to CDC statistics], ‘influenza and pneumonia’ took 62,034 lives in 2001

      —BUT >>> 61,777 of which were – actually ….attributable to >>> pneumonia (NOT FLU)
      - and (JUST) >>> 257 to flu,

      ( and in only >>> 18 cases >>> was the flu virus …. positively identified.”)

      You see, the CDC has created … one overall category….. that combines both flu and pneumonia deaths.
      - Why do they do this?
      - Because they disingenuously “assume” (No Proof) that the pneumonia deaths are complications stemming from the flu.

      This is an absurd assumption. Pneumonia has a number of causes.

      But even worse, in all the flu and pneumonia deaths, >>>> only 18 revealed …. the presence….. of an influenza virus.

      Therefore, the CDC could not say, with assurance of PROOF
      - that any more than ,,,,, 18 people”” died of influenza in 2001. >>> Not 36,000 deaths. ….. JUST >>> 18 deaths.

      https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2018/01/15/massive-flu-outbreak-heres-the-real-story-the-media-wont-touch-the-lies-the-hoax-the-scandal/
      …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

      If you prefer – READ THE TRUTH in the Medical Journal “Advanced Practice Nursing”

      https://www.asrn.org/journal-advanced-practice-nursing/1212-do-not-believe-everything-you-read-about-flu-deaths.html
      ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

      See the chart on the left of the WSJ (Wall street Journal)
      - those “TINY” BLACK dots at the bottom of the bar chart – are REAL DEATH Certificate….. Reported FLU DEATHS.
      - Those huge RED Bars above
      - are the CDC reported media “Fear Porn” figures

      https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB124217724145913411
      …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

      Perhaps you will REDACT this article and replace it with the TRUTH >>> & On you WEBSITE

      Might restore some credibility to your name & Website

      https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB124217724145913411

    • gracer

      Quercetin dihydrate works for me to protect against colds and flu, and a second supplement thins mucus.

      Quercetin is a flavonoid from fruits and vegetables like apples and onions. Quercetin was listed as GRAS (generally recognized as safe), so I don’t think quercetin would have any side effects but there were a few obscure counterindications listed when I searched it.

      What I do is mornings take 1/2 level teaspoon (about 500 mg) of quercetin dihydrate, which is a yellow, fluffy powder available from Bulk Supplements. I order it in a 250 gram bag which lasts about 500 days. Quercetin somehow guards and galvanizes my lungs and sinuses and I have not caught my usual winter chest cold for 3 years now. I twice tried to drop the daily quercetin dose to 250 mg or lower but had the sniffles within a month, so it takes at least 400 mg quercetin per day for me to continue to avoid chest colds and flu.

      That still leaves lung and sinus mucus to be thinned, which I have done for decades by mornings taking 1/2 level measuring teaspoon of Walmart’s 14 herb Mrs. Dash Table Blend (MDTB) seasoning which should start to liquefy lung mucus in about 2 weeks so it can be coughed up more easily. I buy it in the 6.75 oz size which lasts over 3 months. I actually dip it out now with/as a level 7 inch iced tea spoon because the bottle is a little deep. Increasing the MDTB daily dose doesn’t seem to increase the results.
      I had laryngitis in the Fall of 2016 and I couldn’t clear my throat, even though I was taking 500 mg of the aforementioned quercetin. I restarted taking the Mrs. Dash Table Blend and my throat cleared the same day, so there is something in this 14 herb seasoning that thins mucus, maybe the lemon oil.

      I eat cheese and dairy but increasing dairy intake seems to increase mucus formation.
      I take both the quercetin powder and MDTB together by washing them down with water. For a few years I took quercetin capsules from NOW (one 400 mg) or Swanson Vitamins (two 250 mg), but now I prefer taking the quercetin powder.

      Vitamin C doesn’t keep me from taking colds and flu. The same with vitamin D-3.
      I took lots of vit C for years during the 80′s and 90′s. I would take it up to bowel tolerance.
      I took vit D-3 at 5000 units/day for 5 years starting in 2011 because I read that D-3 protects the lungs from getting colds and flu but I still got a chest cold each winter.
      Because I believe quercetin prevents colds and flu for me, it would similarly preclude pneumonia or bronchitis from ever happening to me, and I would consider trying quercetin long term, perhaps for months or years, for any lung or sinus problem already in progress, whatever it is, such as for things like asthma, emphysema, sinusitis or COPD.

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