01 urgent information about swine flu ppt 2009/10

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SYMPTOMS

Typical symptoms are:

a sudden ever (high body temperature o 38C / 100.4F or above), a sudden cough

Other symptoms may include:headache, tiredness, chills, aching muscles, limb or joint pain, diarrhoea or stomach upset, sorethroat, runny nose, sneezing, loss o appetite

WHERE DID SWINE FLU COME FROM?

Scientists have traced the genetic lineage o thecurrent swine u strain to a swine virus calledH3N2 that was frst identifed 10 years ago inactory arms in the US, where it spread andmutated at an alarming rate. Experts at that time

reported that the H3N2 strain had absorbed newgenes rom bird and human us, producing adouble hybrid virus, and warned that the viruswould someday evolve to inect humans, per-haps setting o a global pandemic. Eventually avariant o H3N2 mixed with a strain o Eurasianpig u, producing the triple hybrid swine uvariant (a hybrid o a human virus, pig virus andbird virus) thats inecting humans today. Thesenew genes provided swine u with the ability

to quickly reproduce and spread throughout pigarms. Research by Dr Oliver Pybus o OxordUniversitys Department o Zoology indicatesthat the movement o live pigs between Eurasiaand North America seems to have allowed thismixing o dierent strains o u virus to occur.

The World Health Organization (WHO) haswarned all governments to prepare or a long-term fght against swine u, while DirectorGeneral Margaret Chan said that the virus could

change into a atal orm by mixing with theH5N1 bird u virus currently spreading in thepoultry population.

The Swine u virus is transmitted like human u, via inected nasal secretions and respira-tory droplets, such as those rom the coughing o an inected person. It is also passed by

direct contact, or example shaking hands or kissing. It can remain inectious on suracesor 2 to 8 hours. Unlike the seasonal u viruses, the H1N1 virus can inect lung cells deeply(as opposed to inecting the upper respiratory system only) causing pneumonia and inserious cases death.

Scientists are now realising that the way that ourood is produced has played a major role in theoutbreak o swine u. Factory arms keep thou-sands o animals packed together in cramped,unhygienic conditions where they stand in their

own excrement and cant turn around, allowingdisease to spread quickly rom pig to pig beoremaking the jump to humans.

A single actory arm can produce 1.6 milliontons o manure each year, which in turn contam-inates local water resources through runo intostreams, rivers and lakes. This is more pollutionthan is produced by the city o Houston, Texas!Its too expensive to treat this huge amount omanure in waste water plants that handle hu-man sewage, so most pork producers opt tostore the manure in giant outdoor lagoons.Some actory arms spray the excess wasteinto the air, nominally to spray it on the feldsto grow crops to eed the pigs; however there isoten so much euent that the land cannot ab-sorb all the manure. This spray can carry poten-tially deadly E. coli and salmonella, which arelater ound on tomatoes, spinach, peppers, etc.

To keep the pigs disease-ree, actory arm own-ers give them an increasing amount o antibiot-ics, which has resulted in the disease-causingmicrobes becoming antibiotic resistant. In act

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in the USA, approximately 70% o antibioticsand related drugs produced in the US are givento livestock. The result is that pig workers in Eu-rope and North American have been ound tobe more susceptible to MRSA, drug resistantE.coli and salmonella and swine u, which can

be very deadly because ew i any antibiotics areeective once someone catches an antibiotic-resistant disease. For example, in tests carriedout in Iowa and Illinois, USA, 49% o pigs and45% o the workers who worked with the pigstested positive or MRSA. Studies conducted byresearchers at the University o Iowa revealedthat people working with animals are 50 timesmore likely to catch respiratory illnesses and vi-ruses rom the animals they work with.

Pew Commission, USA on Industrial Farm Ani-mal Production concluded in no uncertain termsin its report that actory arm conditions poseunacceptable public health risks.

HAVE THERE BEEN OTHER DISEASES

RELATED TO FACTORY FARMING?

Swine u is not the only deadly human diseasetraced to actory arming. Mad Cow Diseasehas killed many people when natural herbivoressuch as cows and sheep were turned into can-nibals by eeding them slaughter-plant waste,blood and manure. In 2005, China experiencedthe worlds largest and deadliest outbreak o anemerging pig pathogen called Strep suis, caus-

ing meningitis and deaness in people handlinginected pork products. Pig actories in Malaysiabirthed one o the deadliest o human patho-gens: the Nipah virus. a contagious respiratorydisease causing relapsing brain inections, theNipah virus kills 40% o people inected. In July2009, the Ebola virus was detected in pigs in thePhilippines. As with Swine u the danger is thatas the virus evolves, it will mutate and return tothe human population in a much more virulentorm.

HUMAN DISEASES OF

ANIMAL ORIGIN

According to the World Organisation or AnimalHealth, 60% o human pathogens and 75% orecent emerging diseases, including TB, are oanimal origin. Diseases which are passed romanimals to humans are called zoonotic. All ar-eas o meat, poultry, egg, and dairy production

(e.g. meat transportation and processing, ani-mal rendering, manure handling practices) cancontribute to ood contamination and zoonoticdisease. In the US, around 73,000 illnesseseach year are caused by E. coli inection, lead-ing to over 2,000 hospitalisations and 60 deathsand costing an estimated $405 million annually.Consumption o ood and water contaminatedwith animal wastes is a major route o humaninection.

The UK Cabinet paper, Food Matters, states thatdeaths due to Listeria are rising and that meatcontamination is a continuing challenge, as isthe threat o diseases transerring rom animalsto humans.

1918 PANDEMIC

The worst plague in human history was trig-

gered by an H1N1 avian u virus, which jumpedthe species barrier rom birds to humans, inect-ing more than 500 million people (more than aquarter o the human race at that time) and wenton to kill as many as 50 to 100 million people inthe 1918 u pandemic. No disease, war or am-ine ever killed so many people in such a short atime. The pigs then re-contracted the virus romhumans, and since then it has continued to cir-culate and mutate amongst the pigs.

WARNINGS UNHEEDED

In 2003, the American Public Health Associa-tion, the largest and oldest association o pub-lic health proessionals in the world, called ora moratorium on actory arming. In 2005, theUnited Nations urged that governments, localauthorities and international agencies need totake a greatly increased role in combating therole o actory-arming, which, they said, com-bined with live animal markets, provide idealconditions or the [inuenza] virus to spreadand mutate into a more dangerous orm. InApril 2008, ater a 2.5 year investigation, the


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COSTS OF A PANDEMIC

The World Bank estimated in 2008 that a u pandemic could cost $3 trillion worldwide and causean almost 5% decrease in world GDP with more than 70 million people dying worldwide in a severepandemic.

The Physicians Committee or Responsible Medicine in the US has called on leaders to shut downthe u arms saying that 1 in 3 pigs harbour u viruses. It is time or all o us to wake up to the act

that the way we are raising animals is creating an opportunity or viruses or diseases to aict theglobal community, with potentially millions o human casualties.

PREVENTION

Wash your hands requently: Use antibacterial soaps or alcohol-based hand cleaner when soapand water are not available. Wash thoroughly or 30 seconds getting under the fngernails

Wear a ace mask when outside: a surgical or a respirator variety (N95). [to protect others, alwayscough or sneeze into a tissue].

Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth until you have washed your hands

Avoid close contact with inected people or stand a ew eet away rom them and avoid physi-cal contact

Boost your immune system: Keeping your body strong, nourished, and ready to fght inection.Stick with whole grains, colourul vegetables, and vitamin-rich ruits.

Keep hydrated: Drink 8 to10 glasses o water each day to ush toxins rom your system andmaintain good moisture and mucous production in your sinuses

Be physically active: Moderate exercise can support the immune system by increasing circula-tion and oxygenating the body

Avoid alcohol: Apart rom being a mood depressant, alcohol is an immune suppressant thatcan decrease your resistance to viral inections like swine u

When ying, carry onboard antibacterial wet-tissues or a small antibacterial spray, cleaninghands regularly. Also try to minimize putting your hands near to your ears, nose or mouth.

Get plenty o sleep to keep your immune system in good shape

THE LINK BETWEEN HEALTH AND A PLANT-BASED DIETWe now know that swine u has its origins in the cramped and flthy conditions o actory arms.In order to prevent the outbreak o such diseases in the uture, we need to rethink what we eat andwhere we get it rom.

When Oprah Winrey went on a three week vegan diet cleanse, she was surprised to know it was sosatisying. She stated Wow, wow, wow! I never imagined meatless meals could be so satisying. Ican honestly say every meal was a surprise and a delight.

More and more medical research is becoming available showing the link between a healthy liestyleand a plant-based diet.

When we look at illnesses, we see that three o the biggest killers in the world today are cardiovascu-lar disease, cancer and diabetes. The World Health Organisation reports that cardiovascular diseasesaccount or almost hal o the total chronic disease deaths. Obesity and diabetes are on the rise and


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Resources

What You Should Know about Swine Flu: Q&A with Dr. Michael Gregerhttp://www.hsus.org/arm/news/ournews/qa_on_swine_u_050209.html

Swine Flu Ancestor Born on U.S. Factory Farmshttp://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/05/swineuarm/

Latest Swine Flu News and Inormationhttp://www.suprememastertelevision.com/swine-u/

CDC Confrms Ties to Virus First Discovered in U.S. Pig Factories

http://www.hsus.org/arm/news/ournews/swine_u_virus_origin_1998_042909.html

Killers

http://www.suprememastertelevision.com/killers/

The Long Haul: Risks Associated with Livestock Transport

http://www.hsus.org/arm/resources/research/pubhealth/risks_livestock_transport.html

are starting to appear earlier in lie. In act, obesity is the second greatest sel-caused killer atersmoking. Research by medical doctors such as Dr. Neal Barnard, Dr. Gabriel Cousens, Dr. John Mc-Dougall, and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn has ound that vegan diets can be used to reverse and even curethese diseases. A 2007 article in the worlds leading medical journal The Lancet entitled Food, live-stock production, energy, climate change, and health stated that there is strong scientifc evidencethat vegetables and ruits protect against these diseases, whilst the health risks posed by the rapidworldwide growth in meat consumption, which accounts or nearly one fth o global greenhousegas emissions, is both exacerbating climate change and directly contributing to certain diseases.

The World Cancer Research Fund in its 2007 report recommended reducing the consumption ored and processed meats stating that they are a convincing cause o colorectal cancer. In August2009, they started urging parents not to put meat in childrens lunchboxes, believing that bad eatinghabits can start in childhood. Their reports state scientifc evidence that links processed meats toan increase in bowel cancer risk and that curing, salting or adding preservatives to meat can intro-duce carcinogenic substances. Lisa Cooney, Head o Education at the World Cancer Research Fund,interviewed on the BBC News recommended that the best approach or adults and children alike isto avoid cancer-causing meats completely.

A vegan diet is healthier than a vegetarian diet because o the health risks involved in consumingdairy products. Dairy products contain saturated at and cholesterol. A 2007 study based on adults65 years or older, published in the American Journal o Clinical Nutrition, discovered that a diet withmany dairy products increases your chances o developing cancer by 300%. Calcium in green leayvegetables is better absorbed than in dairy products. One cup o cooked kale or turnip greens, 2packets o instant oats, two-thirds o a cup o tou or two-thirds o a cup o broccoli, each o thesecontain the same amount o absorbable calcium as 1 cup o cows milk.

According to Dr. Campbell. author o the China Study, People who ate the most animal-based oodsgot the most chronic disease People who ate the most plant-based oods were the healthiest and

tended to avoid chronic disease.

The American Dietetic Association recently stated (July 2009) that vegetarian

diets, including vegan diets, are healthul, nutritionally adequate and may provide

health benefts in the prevention and treatment o certain diseases, and are ap-

propriate or individuals during all stages o the lie-cycle including pregnancy,

lactation, inancy, childhood and adolescence and or athletes.

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