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Showing posts with label CDC. Show all posts

26 April 2010

Pneumonia and Influenza Deaths Spike

Don't lower your guard. It ain't over yet.
While the 'phony swine flu pandemic' is out of the news, something else is taking place in America. Influenza and pneumonia are nearly at epidemic levels, but not being reported in the media.
Keep all safe guards to your health in place - especially Vitamin D supplementation. It is not clear which way things will develop.
Look for yourself at the following graph and article. The danger is real.







US Pneumonia & Influenza Deaths Spike To Epidemic Threshold

Recombinomics Commentary 21:37
April 20, 2010

The proportion of deaths attributed to pneumonia and influenza (P&I) was at the epidemic threshold. No states reported widespread or regional influenza activity. Four states reported local influenza activity.

The above comments from the CDC week 15 report on influenza in the United States once again highlights the discordance between reported/confirmed pH1N1 cases and Pneumonia and Influenza death rate reported in 122 cities in the United States. The graph of P&I deaths for the past three years clearly shows a change beginning about 11 months ago, following pH1N1 confirmation in the United States. Those cases created a new peak in pediatric deaths and pushed the P&I rate above baseline. It has been above baseline ever since, which is not seen in previous years.

Normally, the P&I rate is at or below baseline for most of the season, and it moves above baseline at the peak of seasonal flu in February or March. In contrast, the P&I rate for the past 11 months has been above baseline for almost every week. Occasionally it briefly falls below baseline, but then spikes higher, as it did for week 15, when it rose to the epidemic threshold, 7.6%. Week 15 is dramatic because the level of reported pH1N1 is so low. In week 15 no state is reported widespread or regional activity. Only four are reporting local activity, and the rest are reporting sporadic or no activity (the week 15 report is displaying the week 14 map).

These data once again raise concerns that fatal pH1N1 pneumonia cases are not being reported/confirmed. P&I deaths do not require lab confirmation, so fatal pneumonia cases which are not tested or test negative for pH1N1 are still reported by the 122 cities.

Testing for pH1N1 is abysmal. Media and journal reports have described case after case which was pH1N1 confirmed at autopsy. These cases repeatedly tested negative for the rapid test as well as PCR because the pH1N1 had already been cleared from the upper respiratory tract and was growing exclusively in the lower respiratory tract (so throat or nasopharyngeal swabs are negative).

Countries worldwide have reported an increase in D225G/D225N cases, which are almost exclusively found in fatal or severe cases. D225G is frequently found at higher levels in the lower respiratory tract, leading to false negatives when the upper respiratory tract is tested.

The CDC has failed to explain the discrepancy. In January, media reports quoted the agency as speculating that the spike in deaths then were due to pneumonia caused by something other than pH1N1. However, the movement of the P&I above baseline began shortly after pH1N1 was confirmed in the spring of 2009 and reflects deaths that are markedly higher than the estimated influenza deaths of 36,000, which is based on the P&I data.

Moreover, the number of tested samples has been minimal. Only 23 samples were tested for low reactor status in the past week, and the one positive raised the total to 6, which appears to be limited to detection of changes at position 159. The CDC no longer reports changes at position 158 as low reactors.

Thus, not only has the CDC failed to explain the high P&I levels and lower sensitivity for detection of low reactors, they have not addressed the gap between their estimate of 12,000 pH1N1 deaths, and the 36,000 average for seasonal flu, since pH1N1 deaths are clearly much higher than an average season based on excessive P&I deaths, which is the criteria for seasonal flu death estimates.

The clear explanation for the cause of the excessive P&I deaths is long overdue.

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10 March 2010

CDC Claims 57 Million Flu Cases - Huh?


Don't forget, the CDC under the direction of WHO stopped the laboratory confirmation of flu cases in the middle of the 'great swine flu pandemic of 2009' back in July! That means all reports of 'swine flu cases' have no scientific basis since that time. It's like playing tennis without a net - it's easier to win that way - there is no standard to meet.

At the same time, the CDC is ignoring the the two deadly mutations of the H1N1 that have occurred around the world which seem to be responsible for the majority of the fatal cases.

So why is the CDC acting so stupid?

Maybe they have flu on the brain - or it's all about ensuring profits for the big drug makers who are shipping the millions of unused flu vaccines over seas to third world countries.

These vaccines going to Africa and elsewhere will be labeled 'foreign aid' but all the money will go to the pharmaceutical companies which are, as we know, too big to fail - even at math.

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CDC Claims 57 million Swine Flu Cases - Where's the Proof?

By William Campbell Douglas MD

CDC fails at math The feds are still squealing over swine flu -- but no matter how loud they oink, their numbers just don't add up. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared that 57 million Americans have come down with swine flu -- and their media lap dogs (or are they now pigs?) just ate it up. I saw that big number repeated in headlines everywhere as if that were a fact and not a completely made-up number. Oink, oink. But that's just what it is -- a story as true as those Babe the Pig movies. If someone can prove to me that 57 million Americans actually came down with swine flu, I'll trade my lab coat for overalls and take up hog farming. I mean it... but it's not going to happen. The truth is, no one knows how many swine flu cases there were, not even the math whizzes at the CDC. That 57 million figure is just the midpoint of a massive estimate range that claims up to 84 million Americans may have had swine flu. They may as well say it was between 1 and 300 million. Remember, the feds stopped counting swine flu cases in July -- they actually told state and local health authorities to stop testing for it and stop tracking it. It's better than burning evidence -- because they prevented the evidence from ever existing in the first place. Now, they can throw around any number they want without having to worry that the truth might someday come out and squeal on them. All we know for certain -- and this is based on real data from the CDC and state health departments -- is that only a tiny fraction of the suspected H1N1 cases that were sent to labs for confirmation actually turned out to be swine flu, or even any kind of flu at all. Most people just had a bad cold. Yet the feds keep pushing this myth that Americans should STILL rush out and get swine flu shots... hinting darkly at the possibility of a "third wave." If it's as "bad" as the first or second wave, you can safely keep your sleeve down... because this undercooked bacon is already cold.

30 December 2009

Self Hatred Is a Lethal Disease

The following article and link give a scientific look at what it means to be afflicted with the disease of 'self hatred'. So afflicted, one becomes a danger to oneself and to others. This is not pleasant reading. It is sobering and even frighteningly depressing.
It makes you wanna hollar and scream! But what good would that do?
Makes you want to 'shoot the messenger' and say it ain't so. But, it probably is true for the most part. What makes it so unpalatable is the lack of love in the delivery of such bad news to the victims of this epidemic of 'self hatred' spawned by slavery and its aftermath. Our self hatred is only the reflection of the abusive and pervasive hatred that our would-be slave masters and oppressors threw our way for so many centuries. We are still running around with that seething hatred leaking from all our pores. It spews out in words and deeds that are destructive of self and kind. It makes unity impossible, or even normal family life! It renders impossible the relationships that would make business and economic development possible and blocks other advances that we as a people could be making. This self hatred is a lethal brew - it is the poison Kool-aid, and we should stop drinking.
What's the antidote to the poison of self hatred? It is the love that God has for us, made manifest in His searching the Earth for us, and as expressed in the Teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, as represented by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.
What we have to do is translate and transpose these self love teachings into the precise modern language of today's generation making them contemporary and relevant. More importantly, we have to translate these self love teachings into acts and deeds that programatically change the landscape of Black life as it is lived and experienced by our people everywhere. Words are the start of everything, but if Words do not become Deeds, then we can only become increasingly the victims of the pathology that afflicts us that makes us the enemy to self and kind.
This kind of scientific report, because it is objective, and virtually devoid of emotion, should be studied by us to help us hone a programmatic approach that will remedy the fatal illness of self hatred. We must do this. It is almost too late.
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CDC Report Shows Dangers of Black Males
September 27th, 2009
Black men are the leading cause of death among young blacks.
Based on a 96 page report on the causes of premature death by the CDC, the leading cause of death among young blacks of both sexes appears to be black men.
See report.
AIDS.
According to the CDC, black men are ten times more likely to be diagnosed with HIV or AIDS than white men. Among black men who allege that they have never engaged in a homosexual act, the figure rises to about 15 times the rate that heterosexual white men are diagnosed. Studies by the CDC also conclude that black men are more likely to have HIV or AIDS and go undiagnosed than white men.
All of this translates to black women being diagnosed with HIV or AIDS at a rate of over 20 times that of white women. The general trend is for black men to catch HIV/AIDS from each other in prison and then give it to black women when they are released. The CDC believes that 74% of black women who have HIV/AIDS contracted it through heterosexual contact with a man.
A 2004 report by the CDC says that AIDS is the:
* the leading cause of death for black women aged 25–34 years.* the 3rd leading cause of death for black women aged 35–44 years.* the 4th leading cause of death for black women aged 45–54 years.
By way of comparison, AIDS was only the 11th leading cause of death for white women aged 25-34!Homicide
The same CDC reports say that homicide is the:
* the leading cause of death among black men aged 15-34 years. (Three age categories!)
* the second leading cause of death for black women aged 15-24 years.* the fifth leading cause of death for black women aged 25-34 years.
Among women aged 15-24, homicide accounts for 5% of premature deaths in white females, but 20% of all premature deaths by black females.
Among both black and white men, homicide deaths peak at aged 25-34. The death rate by homicide among white men in this age group is 12.5 per 100k, and accounts for 10% of all premature deaths. The death rate by homicide among blacks in this age group is 101.8 per 100k, and accounts for 48% of all premature deaths.
The majority of black female homicide victims are killed by a current or former boyfriend, which many refer to as “femicide.” About 93% of all black homicide victims are killed by a black perpetrator overall. 85% of white homicide victims are killed by a white perpetrator.
“The National Black Women’s Health Project” has identified the battering of women as the number one health issue for African American women (Joseph, 1997).
Femicide is a leading cause of premature deaths in African American women aged 15-44. (Journal of Issues in Nursing Vol 7, No. 1)
In 1998, Salber and Taliaferro reported that the spousal homicide rate among African Americans is 8.4 times more than for whites. The incidence of spousal homicide is 7.7 times higher in interracial marriages compared to intraracial marriages. (Source WebMD.com)
Relationships with black men dramatically increase a woman’s chances of dying young.
Black females aged 15-19 are 3.9 times more likely to die of homicide or AIDS than white females in the same age group. This increases to 4.4 time for females aged 20-24 and 7.3 times for 25-34.
White women who engage in relationships with black men dramatically increase their chances of premature death or long term health problems from murder, beatings, and STDs.