Bird Flu In a Nut shell
If there is a Pandemic, then there exists a high probability that
you will be exposed.
One of the most common ways in which flu kills is
through Pneumonia in the lungs.
So the most intelligent thing you can do NOW as part of the Human Race is
build your own immunity to this Pandemic. Your immune system is the most
important weapon you have in fighting it , Do not neglect it
Lactoferrin has positive scientific results showing effects to
attenuate pneumonia in influenza infections. NutraFerrin (lactoferrin)
helps you stay healthy. It is a small investment for so much protection.
In a Bigger Nut shell
Read
below what the scientists are saying
K Shin, H
Wakabayashi, K Yamauchi Journal of Medical Microbiology (2005), 54, 717-723
Effect of orally administered bovine lactoferrin and lactoperoxidase on
influenza virus infection
Scientific
paper Summary
Source:
http://jmm.sgmjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/54/8/717
Summary of the Paper:
J Med Microbiol 54 (2005), 717-723;
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.46018-0
©
2005 Society for General Microbiology
ISSN 0022-2615
Effects of orally administered bovine lactoferrin and lactoperoxidase on
influenza virus infection in mice
Kouichirou Shin1 ,2, Hiroyuki Wakabayashi1, 2,
Koji Yamauchi 1, Susumu Teraguchi 1, Yoshitaka Tamura
1 , Masahiko Kurokawa and Kimiyasu Shiraki 2
1
Nutritional Science Laboratory, Morinaga Milk Industry Co. Ltd, 5-1-83
Higashihara, Zama, Kanagawa 228-8583, Japan 2Department of
Virology, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama,
Toyama 930-0194, Japan
Correspondence Kouichirou Shin
k_shin@morinagamilk.co.jp
Received
January 19, 2005
Accepted
April 18, 2005
Milk contains a wide variety of host protective factors against
infectious microbes. Among these protective factors, lactoferrin
(LF) and lactoperoxidase (LPO) have been reported to exhibit
antiviral activities as well as immuno-modulatory effects. In the
present study, the effects of orally administered LF and LPO were
assessed in a mouse influenza virus infection model. BALB/c mice
were intranasally infected with 6.6 x
102 p.f.u. of influenza virus A/PR/8/34(H1N1). Bovine LF
or LPO was administered once daily at a dose of 62.5 mg per mouse
by gavage, starting 1 day before infection. Mice given LF or LPO
showed a significantlylower lung consolidation score on day 6 after infection
compared with the control mice that were given water instead.
Concurrently, the number of infiltrated leukocytes recovered from
bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) on day 6 was significantly
lower in mice given LF or LPO. However, the virus yield in the BALF
was not affected by these treatments. The serum level of IL-6, a
pro-inflammatory cytokine, positively correlated with the lung
consolidation score in each group and was significantly lower on
day 6 in the mice given LPO. These results suggest the potential of
oral administration of LF or LPO to attenuate pneumonia in
influenza-virus-infected mice through the suppression of
infiltration of inflammatory cells in the lung
Avian influenza (also known as
bird flu) is a type of influenza virulent in birds.
It was first identified in
Italy in the early 1900s and is
now known to exist worldwide. The causative agent is the avian influenza (AI)
virus. AI viruses all belong to the influenza virus A genus of the
Orthomyxoviridae family and are negative-stranded, segmented RNA viruses.
Avian influenza spreads in the air and in manure. Wild fowl often act as
resistant carriers, spreading it to more susceptible domestic stocks. It can
also be transmitted by contaminated feed, water, equipment and clothing;
however, there is no evidence that the virus can survive in well cooked meat.
The incubation period is 3 to 5 days. Symptoms in animals vary, but virulent
strains can cause death within a few days.
Human cases of bird flu are
incredibly alarming, and raised the concern of virologists and government
agencies in
China,
Hong Kong,
Vietnam,
Canada,
and other countries.
This imminent pandemic could only be controlled by
the vast slaughter of millions of fowl to contain the virus that spreads by
air, water, and soil. The bird flu is especially dangerous because our immune
systems don’t have any antibodies to handle something that used to be
relegated to animals. Thus, it will take
hold with unprecedented force, settles in the lungs, and causes
Pneumonia
NOW it’s the Pneumonia which will kill
you
not the Bird Flu and
resists anti-viral and anti-bacterial medication.
So the most intelligent thing you can
do NOW as part of the
Human Race
is build your own immunity to this Pandemic. Your immune system is the most
important weapon you have in fighting it , Do not neglect it
Most health experts researching and fighting the
incidence of human bird flu do not have an optimistic outlook. They point out
that the pathogen has not appeared to evolve such that human-to-human contact
is contagious, yet it remains that people working with fowl, swimming in
infected rivers, playing in an area where carcasses were buried, or breathing
air near a poultry processing plant, can lead to infection.
A strain of the H5N1 bird flu virus that may unleash
the next global flu pandemic is showing resistance to Tamiflu, the antiviral
drug that countries around the world are now stockpiling to fend off the
looming threat.
Washington is abuzz with efforts
to avoid an avian flu pandemic: President Bush is meeting vaccine industry
officials and the State Department is convening 65 countries to discuss
international prevention efforts. But lawmakers from both parties say
preparations are not happening fast enough.
Southeast Asia
is the perfect starting point for a bird flu pandemic.
Millions of people are in close proximity to each
other and to the birds that can carry the deadly virus.
Vietnam is the hardest-hit
nation, where wandering domestic chickens have spread the bird flu from farm
to farm. Villagers who catch the virus complain of fever one day and are dead
the next. The
United States and
China have sent money to
Vietnam to help vaccinate 260
million birds, but the disease is spreading faster than the vaccine. If one
bird is sick, the entire flock is destroyed, but not the ones on neighbouring
farms, a situation some experts believe is helping to perpetuate the disease.
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