Plymouth, MI (PRWEB) December 3, 2009

It still blazes across news channels, web sites and magazine covers day after day — dire statistics and dozens of stories about the spread of H1N1 influenza A (swine flu) . Reports of vaccine shortages and long lines for clinics paint a discouraging picture during this pandemic.

But finally, there is some good news.

Pure-Go® is a revolutionary device that allows people to sanitize their hands anytime, anywhere. Worn on the wrist, the Pure-Go® is a refillable silicone device that can be filled with any alcohol-based hand sanitizer solution.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advocates education and hand hygiene as keys to success in fighting germs, including the current flu epidemic.

“One of the very first lines of defense to stave off illness and bacteria-related infections is simple hand hygiene,” says Jeff Powers, creator of Pure-Go®. “Everyone should exercise caution in this emergency situation, it’s a scenario that requires personal responsibility. We’ve created a tool to help make it simple to clean your hands in a discrete and convenient manner. It gives the wearer peace of mind.”

Pure-Go® isn’t just a flu fighter. It’s perfect for parents and children, teachers, tourists, business travelers and health care workers—anyone who wants to protect themselves against infections on a daily basis, even when soap and water isn’t readily available.

The Pure-Go® Wrist Worn Hand Sanitizer Kit includes: the Pure-Go® dispenser, a 2 oz. bottle of hand sanitizer and a refill nozzle. It can be refilled with any standard brand of hand sanitizer and takes just seconds to fill. The ability to refill and reuse the product again and again truly separates the Pure-Go® from other portable solutions. The Pure-Go is available in several standard colors.

“Influenza A viruses, such as swine flu, as well as many others, are fragile and can be easily destroyed through proper hygiene, including use of soap and water and alcohol-based hand sanitizers,” says Dr. Judy Daly, director of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratories, Primary Children’s Medical Center, Salt Lake City. The Pure-Go® puts that ability right at your fingertips.

“The bottom line is that individuals have a great deal of personal control over their health,” explains Powers. “Excellent hand hygiene can keep you healthy, and educational information about the effectiveness of hand sanitizer is readily available from various health organizations. Keep your hands out of your mouth and eyes, and clean them regularly. It’s a simple message that can go a long way toward curbing the spread of germs, including H1N1.”

For more information on how to defend yourself against swine flu and other infections by wearing your hand sanitizer on you wrist with a Pure-Go®, please call 877-696-7484 or visit http://www.purgo-creations.com.

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Mchenry, IL (PRWEB) February 20, 2006

Avian-Flu-pandemic.com recently launched a H5N1 bird flu discussion forum that is generating a lot of excitement among the general public. People are expected to join this new forum in waves from all around the world and expects as many as 500 new members in just over 90 days.

“These new forums allow a way for countries all around the world to collectively work together in preparing for the immanent pandemic” said the webmaster, and founder of the website. “The forum will provide an invaluable communication structure for the entire world in the event of a crisis. “It will help people to coordinate plans and share information among other people across the globe, which is very unique”.

This website’s motto of people-informing-people has added a comforting appeal to the site, which is attracting people from all over the world.

“We believe in providing a caring type of atmosphere on the forum. We understand that new visitors to the site may be a little nervous of the current situation so we will make every effort possible to comfort them. If the new visitors take their time and review the information on this site, they will have no problem adequately preparing for a Pandemic”.

The website is also a great source for receiving the latest bird flu news and developments as live news feeds from all around the world.

For all those that are interested in immediate preparation for the ensuing H5N1 bird flu pandemic, we would encourage you to visit this site located at:

http://www.Avian-Flu-Pandemic.com

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FluStop vs Control Group

Vancouver, BC (PRWEB) October 15, 2009

FluStop has had a rapid acceleration in sales growth in 2009 due to the high awareness of influenza. Since coming onto the marketplace in 2007, the product has been gathering a following. “I now get calls from across North America and even as far as London England and Hong Kong,” said Greg Gerrie, the company’s CEO. “Even private schools are calling to get large amounts of the product for their staff and students.”

Developed by a leading virologist, FluStop is a natural herbal throat spray solution which, through WHO approved clinical testing, has been shown to inactivate the Hemagglutinin (HA) and Neuraminidase (NA) in types A and B influenza. When the HA and NA, which are the tentacles that stick out of all viruses, are inactivated then the virus is unable to infect the healthy cells and thus replication prevention occurs.

On a recent webinar hosted by life-enthusiast.com, Mr. Gerrie was asked about the recent study which revealed that chances of getting H1N1 are doubled if people had a regular flu shot. “When you bypass our God given natural immune system and inject foreign matter into your body to trick it into developing anti-bodies, you might want to investigate further,” said Gerrie. Gerrie, who is more a marketer than a scientist, has had to learn about the complexities of this subject and gets his information from Dr. Sherri Tenpenny who has done more than 6000 hours of research on the subject of immunization.

Gerrie says he is delighted when he hears how happy people are with the product. Dr. Melissa Carr of Active Life Health Clinic in Vancouver states, “I have found Flu-STOP to be an easy solution and have had great feedback from my patients.” The product benefits are immediate access and easy safe self-administration. FluStop is safe for children and taken just five times per day can eradicate flu symptoms within 8 to 72 hours.

FluStop is sprayed to the back of the throat and nose and makes direct contact with any virus activity and/or bacteria formations. Users are advised not to eat or drink for 30 minutes to allow the formula to work. The current label claim for FluStop is “for the symptomatic relief of colds and flu.”

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Everything You Need To Know About Equine Influenza

Equne influenza is also known as horse flu and the symptoms of the disease are very similar to the human flu. The disease rarely progresses to a life threatening situation in healthy horses, but young, old or debilitated horses are at risk of developing serious complications. There are two know types of the virus: Orthomyxovirus A/Equi-1 and Orthomyxovirus A/Equi-2, the latter being endemic in certain parts of the world.

The disease varies in severity depending on the overall condition of the horse. The health and age of the horse determines how serious the infection will be. Most horses recover over a period of a few days. One of the first noticeable signs of equine influenze is an high temperature in the range of 38C (101F) to 41 C (106F). A normal body temperature is in the range of 37C to 38C. The horse will seem lethargic and less alert.

The next symptom is usually a dry hacking cough which becomes moist over a period of a few days. Nasal discharge will be apparent and the horse may experience loss of appetite, in fact equine influenza symptoms closely resemble human flu symptoms. A diagnosis should be made through a nasopharyngeal swab and blood tests to eliminate any doubts and to rule out more serious respiratory conditions such as viral arteritis and viral rhinopneumonitis.

If the horse doesn’t develop any complications, then supportive care and rest are all that is needed for a recovery. For Every day of fever, the horse should be rested for a week with a minimum rest period of three weeks. NSAIDs and antibiotics may be prescribed by the vet if the horse has a fever over 40C (104F) or if the fever persists for more than 3-4 days. Antibiotics and NSAIDs will also be administered if there is a risk of pneumonia or in the case of pus in the nasal discharge.

Due to the fact that there is no cure for the flu, prevention is necessary. Good husbandry and management practices along with a vaccination programme prevent the spread of the disease. The introduction of new horses to a stable or barn should entail a two week isolation period to avoid the spread of the virus. The virus is transmitted easily between horses through the inhalation of respiratory secretions and an infected horse can infect others by simply coughing. As with all viruses equine influenza is spread through the air. Nasal and intramuscular vaccinations help prevent infection in healthy horses your veterinarian should be able to advise you on which to use depending on your location and your horse’s environment and overall health.

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Flu Vaccine Answers – 10 Answers to Frequently Asked Questions About the Flu Shot

The 2009 Flu Season has arrived with a lot of questions about how best to deal with the H1N1 or Swine Flu Virus. Here are accurate and up to the minute answers to 10 questions that will help you make the best decisions for you and your family.

1. Does the Shot cover the H1N1 Virus? No it does not. There is a vaccine for the swine flu in production as this is being written, but it is not available to the general public as yet. Initially, the swine flu vaccines will go to military personnel, emergency medical personnel as well as health departments, and health care officials. Most pharmacies are estimating that the earliest it would become available to the general public is November of 2009.

2. Should you take the swine flu vaccine if you have already taken the regular flu shot or mist? Yes both vaccines are recommended. You can choose to take them both on the same day at the same time. Or you need to wait several weeks if you have to take them separately.

3. Does a physician’s office have to give the shot to small children? No, there are pharmacies within drug stores who will vaccinate children as young as 2 years of age. Expect guideline for local pharmacies to differ, so call before you go to make sure that can do what you need.

4. Is the flu shot better than the flu mist? Yes, health care professionals agree that both are good for the duration of one flu season. Given that the worse months for flu are December, January and February both should provide protection through those months.

However, if the flu season extends later than usual into March and April, it is thought that those who have received the Flu Mist will have greater coverage. In other words the flu shot tends to show a diminished capacity after 4 months, and the flu mist tends to last 5 to 6 months.

5. What is the difference between the shot and the mist? The injection does contain viruses but they are dead. The mist is given by spraying the vaccine up each nostril, and contains live but weakened viruses.

6. Who should avoid the mist? People older than 50, those who have asthma or who use an inhaler for wheezing are not good candidates for the mist.

7. How long does it take for the vaccine to become effective? It takes several weeks for the body to react by making antibodies which then help protect it from getting the flu at all or at least lessen the seriousness of the case.

8. Will I get a case of the flu after being vaccinated? The answer is no for the both injection and the mist. Even though the mist contains live viruses, they are not potent enough to cause a case of the flu.

9. When is the best time to be vaccinated? As soon as the vaccine is available is the best time to receive it. Because it takes several weeks for the vaccine to offer protection, the sooner you receive the shot the sooner you’re covered. Getting it early means you avoid having supplies run low and having to wait until more is available.

10. Where can I get the most up to date information on the flu? Your physician and local media are good resources. Also, The Center for Disease Control (CDC) provides up to the minute information with a website and an 800 number.

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Printed Materials for Students to Learn About Influenza A

Printed materials like flyers and door hangers are affective tools to disseminate information about Influenza A. Preventive measures and reminders can be indicated on the said printed outputs, which will be distributed in the whole school campus. Furthermore, the prints must include attractive images and texts to get the attention of the students.

Flyer printing is a method used by educational institutions to create informative prints for employees, students and visitors. With these printed materials, students and faculty staff will be reminded of the things to be done in preventing the spread of the disease. Here are some examples of designs and texts that can be included on flyers and door hangers.

• Door hangers can include safety reminders for the students. The printed materials can be placed on the door knobs of classrooms and offices, bearing the message: “Use a hand sanitizer after holding this knob.”
• Informative prints can also be placed on the door knobs of the comfort rooms. Door hangers can contain messages like “Focus on health and hygiene.”, or “Wash hands with soap and water.” These are simple reminders for students to be safe from being infected by Influenza A.
• The message “Air rooms regularly” can be put on door hangers to remind school administrators and maintenance personnel of what to do.
• Flyers can contain an image of a girl covering her mouth and nose when sneezing. An image has the ability to communicate with people. Students and school personnel will be greatly influenced by the image they see on the printed materials.
• Proper washing of hands in the canteen and in the comfort rooms can be announced through print flyers. This is important to remind everyone inside a school, especially the young ones, on how to prevent Influenza A.
• Flyers are also good communication tools to inform readers about nutritional supplements needed to boost one’s immune system.

Printed materials can remind people on how to prevent the spread of Influenza A. It is important that every student, faculty member and school administrator knows how to practice proper hygiene first and foremost.

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Facts About Influenza Flu Medications

Influenza, also known as flu is an infectious disease that spreads through upper airways and lungs in mammals. Common symptoms of influenza found are fever, sore throat, muscle pains, severe headache, coughing, weakness, and fatigue.

The best way to protect against the flu is to get proper medication during each flu season. Relenza is a medical prescription that works effectively for the treatment of seasonal flu. It works by reducing the spread of the influenza virus inside the body.

1. Use Relenza medication same as it is being prescribed for you and never try to use exceeded amounts.

2. This medicine is packed in disk shaped packs containing 4 blisters each placed between a device called Diskhaler so as to inhale the medicine. The device opens and loads a blister of the medicine each time one uses the inhaler but caution has to be taken that the device is not used with a spacer.

3. It is advisable not to use any other medicines in the diskhaler and put the cover back on the device when it is not being used.

4. In order to treat flu infections, use 2 inhalations every 12 hours for a period of 5 days but according to the prescription of a doctor.

5. For preventing flu symptoms, use two inhalations in every 24 hours for a period of 10 to 28 days.

6. If you suffer from chronic respiratory disease such as asthma and you are scheduled to use an inhaled bronchodilator along with relenza, then you should prefer using the bronchodilator before using relenza.

7. You should use this medication for entire length of time prescribed by your doctor and the symptoms may get better before the infection spreads.

8. It should be remembered that relenza should not be taken while a yearly flu shot.

9. It should be stored at a room temperature away from moisture and heat and throw away the diskhaler after the treatment ends.

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Important Facts About The Flu

The flu is a respiratory infection, despite the fact that it causes full body pain, digestive upsets, and headaches. The flu can sweep through entire communities in a matter of days, moving through schools, work places, and shopping centers.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates 5 to 20 percent of Americans are infected with the flu during each flu season, typically from November to March. Children are two to three times more likely than adults to become ill.

The CDC estimates that 200,000 people are hospitalized each year and about 36,000 people die from the flu and its complication.

The danger of the flu is that it spreads to epidemic proportions within days, and it mutates, making it difficult to prevent. Each strain of flu reacts differently in the body, making it impossible to predict how the next epidemic will hit society.

The government is now encouraging people to cough into their upper arm, or sleeve, if they do not have a tissue. They should also wipe their hands after they cough. This prevents the spread of the disease between people working in close proximity of each other.

Hand washing needs to be done with a soap based, or alcohol based hand cleaner. The new bacterial cleaners may not work unless they are alcohol based.

The elderly, newborn babies, and people with certain chronic illnesses, however, the flu and its complications can be life-threatening. The danger caused by an out-break dependsd on the virus strain.

Flu is caused by a variety of influenza viruses. Researchers identified the first strains in the 1930s. They classify influenza viruses into types A, B, and C.

• Type A is the most common and causes the serious epidemics.
• Type B outbreaks can cause epidemics, but the symptoms are milder than those in type A.
• Type C viruses, has never been connected with an epidemic.

There is no cure for the flu. The only plan of action is plenty of bed rest, drinking fluids, and taking medications that alleviate the symptoms.

This is followed by careful attention to symptoms. The flu can turn into a bacterial infection, resulting in pneumonia, within hours. It is important to remember that complications can appear after the patient starts to feel better.

Complications include a high fever, shaking, chills, chest pains, and may include vomiting and diarrhea. A doctor should be consulted if coughing produces a yellow-green mucus, especially if it is expectorated from the body. This means, that it is coughed hard from the body with force, sending it several feet away – if the patient did not have a tissue.

It is important to remember that influenza A virus is resistant to Rimantadine and amantadine. The CDC recommends that you not take these medicines to treat the flu. Avoid giving aspirin to children and adolescents with the flu, and do not take antibiotics.

IF a pandemic breaks out, visit http://www.pandemicflu.gov/ to learn the news, and learn what you can do to protect yourself and your family. This site tracks the all forms of the flu, and has tutorials to help people protect themselves in case of a flu pandemic.

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Some Information About Avian Influenza

Avian influenza is a virus infection that normally occurs in wild birds and pathologically in poultry, its forms causing mild symptoms or even death within 48 hours. It can also infect humans.

Wild birds are a reservoir of the virus and they spread the disease among the poultry which gets into close contact to contaminated dirt, water, food and wild bird excrements.

The avian influenza viruses can cause a mild form of the disease that does not kill the infected birds, and it only reduces the egg production, and a highly virulent form that can lead to death within 48 hours by multiple internal organ lesions.

Until 1997 nobody knew that the virus can affect humans, but it has happened to those who have been in close contact with infected poultry. Until now, no cases of human to human transmission of the infection were registered.

Getting in close contact with an infected bird can lead to human contamination. People that take care or sell in markets such infected birds, like chicken, turkey and ducks, inhale particles from dried excrements, or feathers which are contaminated.

Eating cooked chicken is not dangerous because heat kills the H5N1 virus.

If you have been lately in close contact with one ore more infected birds, you could develop one or more of these symptoms: fever, lethargy, sore throat, muscle aches, cough, breathing problems, and multi-organ failure, meaning that you have been infected with avian influenza.

Some people say: Why worry about Bird flu?

We should worry because:

- H5N1 virus has caused by now millions of bird deaths, and hundreds of humans only in Asia;

- If the virus mutates it will spread from human to human, causing a global pandemic;

- Chicken industry will be seriously affected.

Until now, in treating avian influenza, doctors have used antiviral drugs obtaining good results, and they are waiting for the accreditation of a H5N1 vaccine. Doctors have discovered that H5N1 virus is resistant amantadine and rimantadine, two antiviral drugs used for treating human influenza. There remain oseltamavir and zanamavir to be tested.

If you have a flock of chickens it is not necessarily to remove them because in the US no cases of bird flu were registered among poultry. But you need to be careful and report any sudden deaths you observe in your poultry to the Minister of Agriculture.

Hunters are also advised not to eat sick game, to wear some plastic or rubber protection when handling the game, and to cook very well their game.

In case of a bird flu infection, the government will prohibit selling chickens in the markets while there is a threat of bird flu and also will suspend the imports of chicken from the infected countries; will advise people to stay away from any kind of birds; will ask farmers to report any suspect deaths observed on poultry.

So, if you want to find out more about bird flu vaccine or even about asian bird flu please click this link http://www.bird-flu-info-center.com/

Information about Swine Flu virus

Swine flu is also known as the H1N1 flu and a number of other names such as swine influenza, hog flu, pig flu etc. The swine flu virus is a strain of the influenza family of viruses that is predominantly endemic in pigs. The swine flu virus is common all over the world; however the transfer of the virus from pigs to humans is not so common and does not necessarily cause human influenza. This usually leads to the production of antibodies in the human blood stream. When such a transmission does create human influenza, it is known as zoonotic swine flu. Those people who are exposed to pigs more than others stand a higher chance of getting infected by swine flu. However the meat of a pig will not carry any virus with it once it has been well cooked. Symptoms of zootonic swine flu in human beings are like the symptoms of normal influenza faced by humans. Chills, fever, sore throat, headaches, coughing, muscle and joint pains are bound to be experienced if you do not only suffer from influenza but also swine flu. Thus the latter becomes tougher to diagnose.The main causes for the swine flu are identified and research work is carryion on for producing immunity for this disease.

During 1918, swine flu was first said to be a disease related to human influenza and this was understood when pigs and human beings grew sick together. However the first identification of an influenza stemming from diseases in pigs did not occur till at least ten years later. For the 60 years that followed, swine flue strains were mostly H1N1. Later newer strains of three different subtypes and five different genotypes were found to be the cause of swine flu among pigs in North America. Latest strains that have emerged show strains from humans, pigs and birds and these together form the fast spreading swine flu virus that if detected too late, causes the life of the victim to grow fatal.

The H1N1 version of swine flu is one of the strains that caused the 1918 flu pandemic. The descendants of this virus have been circulating among humans throughout the 20th century. This has worsened the condition of the normal seasonal epidemics of influenza that normally affect humans. However it is rare that the virus might get transferred from pigs to humans directly and only 12 such cases have been found in America. However if that is to imply that swine flu is less likely to affect humans, do not live in denial as it does not take much to restore its pandemic state. Though the outbreak of swine flu in pigs are common and its rarely found in humans, or at least studies said so, it is shocking how things seemed to have changed and tables have been turned in the latest swine flu pandemic. Many are falling victim to swine flu and each has to be very responsible and even more careful.

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