Special post: Flashback 1918 « Flu News Network

If an influenza pandemic strikes again, it could be cold comfort to know that lessons learned from the 1918 flu epidemic may offer more help than modern medicine. Here are some insights gleaned from the Dartmouth archives and from a …

Homemaking Haven: Canned Butter FAQ

If the concern is about emergency food supplies , there are dry forms of butter that can be purchased and stored, oils that can be used in an emergency, or commercially canned butter in tins (although we have only seen this for sale from …

Doctor Recommends New Natural Anti-viral for the Flu

(ARA) – Between work, your child’s school, the daycare crowd, traveling and hanging out with your friends, you’re bombarded by cold and flu germs from all directions. Besides getting your flu shot, washing your hands and cleaning …

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Put Your Hands Together

In this podcast, learn how to help stop the spread of infection and stay healthy. It’s easy when you ‘Put Your Hands Together.’

Wake Up America – Food Supply and Health Care Conspiracy

Wake Up America – Food Supply and Health Care Conspiracy Be My Friend – www.myspace.com What the deal with America and it’s messed up food supply and health care system? In this series Peter McCarthy and Radhia Gleis will discuss how corporations have influenced our foods supply, medical care, scientific research, education and government to create a population of unhealthy consumers of junk food and symptom management drugs.

ADB Provides Emergency Food Assistance for Cambodia’s Poorest

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide Cambodias poorest families with US$ 35 million in emergency food assistance as they struggle to cope with rising food and fuel prices. The assistance will help half a million of Cambodias poorest people stave off hunger. Poor families living around the Tonle Sap Lake, and in Phnom Penhs urban slums, will receive free rice and other food subsidies. Food will also be provided to poor children attending early childhood learning centers and primary …

October 3, 2008: With Special Guest Star…Author Sarah Langan …

For example, a small number of people who survived the 1918 flu epidemic developed psychosis—the virus changed their brains. Also, take mitochondria, integral parts of human cells, but also thought to have originally been invading …