Hi, Steve Barwick here, for www.TheSilverEdge.com...
Well, the story of the hour is the rapidly spreading “swine flu” outbreak, which as of yesterday had infected 120 people in Mexico and killed a whopping 60 of them, and has now infected eight people in the United States, in California and Texas.
Today, the government of Mexico announced that it has as many as 1,000 more suspected cases under surveillance.
What’s more, according to Reuters news service, “Mexico's government canceled classes for millions of children in its sprawling capital city and surrounding areas” due to the outbreak, hoping to contain its spread among the city’s teeming population of 20 million. Surgical masks in Mexico City are reported to be completely sold out in pharmacies and other venues.
Also according to Reuters news agency, “California's top health officials said on Friday the state expects to find more cases of the new strain of flu that has killed up to 60 people in Mexico and infected eight in the United States, calling the outbreak still ‘largely a mystery.’”
What makes the story particularly frightening is that the flu strain -- which has somehow magically managed to jump from pigs to humans, if we are expected to believe the health authorities – is, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, a hybrid virus composed of an avian (i.e., “bird flu”) strain, two swine strains, and a human strain.
Not only that, but the two swine strains are from European and Asian swine, rather than from American swine. Yet somehow these three disparate and completely incompatible flu strains melded together, and leaped over to the United States and Mexico.
If it sounds to you like something that could only have been concocted in a research laboratory, then you have company. Dr. Rima E. Laibow, MD, Medical Director of the Natural Solutions Foundation, agrees. In an article entitled, “Smoking Gun: New Deadly Virus Has Gene Sequences Never Seen Before,” she writes, “Genes do not ‘pop up’ out of nowhere. We believe this is a bioengineered weapon.”
Former U.S. Army Major General Albert N. Stubblebine III, who was the commanding general of the Army Intelligence and Security Command from 1981 to 1984, and is now president of the Natural Solutions Foundation, has stated, “We must assume the forces at work will indeed produce what world health officials have called the inevitable pandemic.”
The World Health Organization said today it was ready to use “rapid containment measures” if needed, including antivirals, and that both the United States and Mexico are well equipped to handle the outbreak.
Are they talking about forced vaccinations? Or just treating thousands upon thousands of new victims of this strange and deadly virus with drugs like Tamiflu, which have already been demonstrated to be ineffective against bird flu and useless against other flu strains?
I don’t know if this strange new mutant flu outbreak will indeed turn into the global pandemic the news media has been warning about for several years now. What I do know is that sometimes we get early warnings like this, which give us a little bit of time to prepare. Preparation is nine-tenths of successful survival. The other one-tenth is correctly putting your preparations to work when the time is right.
If you have not yet purchased a Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator for your family, so you can make all of the fresh, high-quality micro-particle colloidal silver you’ll need, any time you need it, you might want to consider doing so now. As you know, colloidal silver is widely known as the world’s most powerful natural antibiotic, and it’s profound antiviral qualities have also been repeatedly demonstrated in medical studies.
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But please, don’t wait too long to order. It is Friday night as I write this email, and already the uptick in online orders has begun. People know something strange is going on, and they want to make sure their families are protected.
We have only 500 of the new Micro-Particle generators in stock right now, and this email is going out to over 5,500 people. Once those 500 units are gone, it will take us at least 30 days to re-stock. Forewarned is forearmed.
Regards,
Steve Barwick
P.S. Less than a month ago, the pharmaceutical giant Baxter “accidentally” sent flu vaccines to 18 eastern European countries which were contaminated with highly infective and quite deadly live Avian “Bird Flu” virus. A fortunate test by one of the receiving labs in the Czech Republic discovered that the vaccines were contaminated, and alerted global health authorities, preventing a global catastrophe. And what followed? No criminal investigation…no firings…nothing. When you consider the fact that Baxter was applying for a license to sell their new Avian Flu vaccine against the same strain found in the vaccines in the very same 18 countries, many people say it is hard to dismiss the incident as “accidental.”
P.P.S. I’ve been working on an article on Colloidal Silver and Viruses for some time now, but I’m afraid it won’t be ready for another few weeks. However, here’s a sneak preview of what’s coming. As you’ll see, medical science has amply demonstrated that as long as the silver particles are small enough, silver completely inactivates the ability of viruses to bond with human cells, thus stopping the spread of infection.
That’s why I urge you to get a brand new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator as quickly as possible. Here’s an excerpt from the coming article, which I’ll alert you to once it has been finished and published on the Colloidal Silver Secrets blog:
In June 2005 The Journal of Nanobiotechnology, published a ten page study that rocked medical science.
The study was the result of seven scientists’ exploration into the virus inhibiting qualities of nanosilver – very tiny, invisible particles of silver measured in nanometers. (A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter, or one-ten thousandth of a hair’s breadth.)
What the study demonstrated is that these tiny nano-particles of silver were able to inhibit HIV-1 (i.e., the AIDS virus) from binding to host cells, in vitro.
What this means is that in the test tube, when they placed the AIDS virus alongside human cells in a medium that would normally allow the virus to bind with the cell (and thus cause viral infection), the introduction of tiny particles of silver into the medium prevented the binding from taking place.
In other words, the silver particles stopped the infection from happening.
The study abstract reads as follows:
Abstract
The interaction of nanoparticles with biomolecules and microorganisms
is an expanding field of research. Within this field, an area that has been largely unexplored is the interaction of metal nanoparticles with viruses.
In this work, we demonstrate that silver nanoparticles undergo a size-dependent interaction with HIV-1, with nanoparticles exclusively in the range of 1–10 nm attached to the virus.
The regular spatial arrangement of the attached nanoparticles, the center-to-center distance between nanoparticles, and the fact that the exposed sulfur-bearing residues of the glycoprotein knobs would be attractive sites for nanoparticle interaction suggest that silver nanoparticles interact with the HIV-1 virus via preferential binding to the gp120 glycoprotein knobs.
Due to this interaction, silver nanoparticles inhibit the virus from binding to host cells, as demonstrated in vitro.
While silver’s well-known toxicity to a wide range of microorganisms has been thoroughly documented in previous research by many leading research facilities -- including the Department of Materials Science, Faculty of Science, Kanagawa University, Japan – this study takes the previous research to a whole new level.
For the first time, the long-proven antimicrobial properties of silver nanoparticles were applied to a highly infectious form of virus with no known cure. And the interaction between the metallic particles, the virus and the cells were studied.
The scientists tested a variety of particle sizes. And they also tested the idea of coating the tiny silver particles with several different surface chemistries including a “foamy carbon matrix,” a polymer and a protein molecule. The goal was to determine if any of these substances would help stabilize the silver particles and aid the silver’s anticipated reaction with the virus.
What they discovered, however, is that only the ‘free surface’ silver nanoparticles in the range of 1 to 10 nanometers interacted with the HIV-1 cells.
Silver Nanoparticles Rule!
This basically means the silver needed no help from the other substances. In fact, anything added to the basic silver nanoparticle served only to prevent the metal’s interaction with the viral microorganism!
The study goes on to explore the interaction between the silver nano-particles and the virus using high angle annular dark field (HAADF) scanning transmission electron microscopy.
The large difference in the atomic number between the organic matter and the silver nanoparticle allows for high contrast and an effective analysis technique. (Kelly, that sentence needs to be put in plain English.) This made it plain that the size of the nanoparticle was the crucial factor, as no particles greater than 10 nm interacted with the virus.
In other words, only the very smallest silver particles inactivated the virus’ ability to bond with the host cells. Larger particles did not.
Ultimately the study found that the smallest silver nanoparticles bound to the viral microorganisms and prevented the virus from bonding with the host.
P.P.P.S. Two highly respected researchers, Dr Eric Gordon, MD and Dr. Kent Holtorf, MD, writing in the prestigious Townsend Letter for Doctors, also believe silver is the answer to the upper respiratory viral infections such as the flu, including deadly multiple drug-resistant flu strains that are likely to be involved in a global pandemic.
They point out that “the collective authoritative medical literature has documented efficacy of silver's virotoxicity against over 24 viruses,” and that "oligodynamic silver" (i.e., a medical reference to silver being extremely powerful even in small quantities) is likely going to be the answer to any future global viral pandemic.
This is why I strongly urge you to get a Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator as quickly as possible. Having the means of colloidal silver production at your fingertips puts you in the driver’s seat, and gives your family an added layer of protection against infectious disease, whether there is ever a flu pandemic, or not.
The Colloidal Silver Secrets blog documents numerous ways to use colloidal silver against infectious illness and disease. Being able to make all of the high-quality micro-particle colloidal silver you could ever need for about 36 cents a quart (rather than paying up to $30 for a tiny four-ounce bottle in health food stores, that would likely sell out overnight anyway, in the event of a pandemic) should give you a powerful feeling of self-reliance and peace of mind, knowing that if medical authorities lose control during a national or global health crisis, you’ll be ready to take care of your family.
Hi, Steve Barwick here, for www.TheSilverEdge.com...
The latest news on the Swine Flu outbreak is astonishing, to say the least. (See the three news articles I’ve reprinted from reputable sources, below this email.)
First, according to Bloomberg.com, New York’s top online news reporting agency, the flu outbreak coincided with President Obama’s visit to Mexico last week.
In fact, Obama was officially greeted upon his arrival in Mexico by an official who died of flu symptoms the very next day. Here is what Bloomberg.com is saying:
Obama’s Visit
The first case was seen in Mexico on April 13. The outbreak coincided with the President Barak Obama’s trip to Mexico City on April 16. Obama was received at Mexico’s anthropology museum in Mexico City by Felipe Solis, a distinguished archeologist who died the following day from symptoms similar to flu, Reforma newspaper reported. The newspaper didn’t confirm if Solis had swine flu or not.
The Mexican government is distributing breathing masks to curtail the disease’s spread. There is no vaccine against the new strain of swine flu, health authorities said.
If that’s not enough, experts now agree that the swine flu is now “likely widespread and impossible to contain at this point” (see first news article below).
What’s more, the World Health Organization has declared the flu a "public health emergency of international concern" (see second news article below).
And finally, Mexican President Felipe Calderone has declared the flu outbreak to be a “national emergency,” giving him powers to close borders, suspend air and vehicle travel, order quarantines and suspend public events. Museums, theaters and other venues where large crowds would usually gather are already being closed throughout Mexico City (see third news article below).
Will the U.S. be far behind? We don’t know. Maybe this will blow over by early next week or maybe we’ll see it mushroom into a full-blown global pandemic. There is simply no way to tell.
What we do know is that eight of the students exhibiting flu-like symptoms in New York City yesterday have now tested “probable” for the swine flu, which means the outbreaks in California and Texas over the last two days have now jumped all of the way to New York. What’s more, two more cases have been found in Kansas, which means it is spreading throughout America’s heartland.
And the news is now reporting that 68 people have now died from this strange flu in Mexico, which means eight more people have died since I wrote last night’s email to you.
Health authorities say there is no vaccination for this unusual, mutant hybrid strain of flu, which is part pig virus, part bird virus and part human virus. And flu drugs like Tamiflu are unlikely to work
Former U.S. Army Major General Albert Stubblebine and his wife, Dr. Rima E. Laibow, MD, Medical Director of the Natural Solutions Foundation, are claiming this hybrid virus could only have been made in a laboratory. They stated last night in a flash alert to members of the Natural Solutions Foundation that stocking up on colloidal silver is the smartest choice for those who do not have the ability to get on a plane and leave the country, before the U.S. government declares an emergency like Mexico, and locks down the borders and begins city-by-city quarantines.
While we are very skeptical of anyone inducing panic, we do believe it is abundantly prudent to follow the old Boy Scout’s motto, “Be Prepared.” Old sayings like “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” have survived the centuries because they are fundamental truths.
If you have ever considered getting a colloidal silver generator, so you don’t have to worry about mass public panic that will surely deplete health food store shelves of this powerful, broad-spectrum antiviral, anti-bacterial and anti-fungal agent during a crisis, then this is the time to do so. We consider the events of the past few days to be a huge advance warning for those with foresight and understanding. And warnings like this generally come around only once. After that there are only two kinds of people; those who heeded the warning, and those who failed to.
Owning a new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver generator from The Silver Edge puts the means of colloidal silver production into your hands. You can make all of the safe, powerful, high-quality colloidal silver you need, at any time you need, quickly and easily (it’s as easy as making a pot of coffee), for about 36 cents a quart, compared to health food store prices of up to $30 for a tiny, four-ounce bottle.
If you want the peace of mind of knowing that you’ll be able to help your family, friends, co-workers, neighbors and others in the event of a national or global health crisis, then owning a Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator is the smartest move you can make right now.
I won’t say any more on this subject today. A word to the wise is sufficient.
Regards,
Steve Barwick
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New swine flu likely widespread, impossible to contain, experts say
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N25472826.htm
25 Apr 2009 21:06:44 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
WASHINGTON, April 25 (Reuters) - A new and unusual strain of swine flu is likely widespread and impossible to contain at this point, experts agree.
The H1N1 strain has killed at least 20 people and possibly 48 more in Mexico and has been confirmed in at least eight people in the United States, all of whom had mild illness.
Probable cases also were found at a school in the New York City borough of Queens and experts at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say they fully expect to find more cases. Here is why:
* This new strain of influenza has shown it can spread easily from person to person.
* It has been found in several places and among people who had no known contact. This suggests there is an unseen chain of infection and that the virus has been spreading quietly.
* This can happen because respiratory illnesses are very common and doctors rarely test patients for flu. People could have had the swine virus and never known it.
* At least in the United States, it has so far only been found in people who had mild illness, another factor that would have allowed it to spread undetected.
* World Health Organization director Dr. Margaret Chan has said the new strain of H1N1 has the potential to become a pandemic strain because it does spread easily and does cause serious disease.
* CDC experts note that while it is possible to contain an outbreak of disease that is in one limited area, once it is reported in widespread locations, the spread is impossible to control. (For full coverage of the flu outbreak, click on [nFLU]) (Editing by Xavier Briand)
WHO declares international concern over swine flu
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090425/ap_on_re_eu/un_un_mexico_swine_flu
2 hrs 6 mins ago
GENEVA – The World Health Organization warned countries around the world Saturday to be on alert for any unusual flu outbreaks after a unique new swine flu virus was implicated in possibly dozens of human deaths in North America.
WHO Director-General Margaret Chan said the outbreak in Mexico and the United States constituted a "public health emergency of international concern."
The decision means countries around the world will be asked to step up reporting and surveillance of the disease, which she said had "pandemic potential" because it is an animal virus strain infecting people. But the agency cannot at this stage say "whether or not it will indeed cause a pandemic," she added.
Chan made the decision to declare public health emergency of international concern after consulting with influenza experts from around the world. The emergency committee was called together Saturday for the first time since it was created in 2007.
In theory, WHO could now recommend travel advisories, trade restrictions or border closures, none of which would be binding. So far it has refrained from doing so.
The agency also held off raising its pandemic alert level, citing the need for more information.
Earlier, Chan told reporters that "it would be prudent for health officials within countries to be alert to outbreaks of influenza-like illness or pneumonia, especially if these occur in months outside the usual peak influenza season."
"Another important signal is excess cases of severe or fatal flu-like illness in groups other than young children and the elderly, who are usually at highest risk during normal seasonal flu," she said.
Several Latin American and Asian countries have already started surveillance or screening at airports and other points of entry.
At least 62 people have died from severe pneumonia caused by a flu-like illness in Mexico, WHO says. Some of those who died are confirmed to have a unique flu type that is a combination of bird, pig and human viruses. The virus is genetically identical to one found in California.
U.S. authorities said eight people were infected with swine flu in California and Texas, and all recovered.
So far, no other countries have reported suspicious cases, according to WHO.
But the French government said suspected cases are likely to occur in the coming days because of global air travel. A French government crisis group began operating Saturday. The government has already closed the French school in Mexico City and provided French citizens there with detailed instructions on precautions.
Chilean authorities ordered a sanitary alert that included airport screening of passengers arriving from Mexico. No cases of the disease have been reported so far in the country, Deputy Health Minister Jeanette Vega said, but those showing symptoms will be sent to a hospital for tests.
In Peru, authorities will monitor travelers arriving from Mexico and the U.S. and people with flu-like symptoms will be evaluated by health teams, Peru's Health Ministry said.
Brazil will "intensify its health surveillance in all points of entry into the country," the Health Ministry's National Health Surveillance Agency said in a statement. Measures will also be put in place to inspect cargo and luggage, and to clean and disinfect aircraft and ships at ports of entry.
Some Asian nations enforced checks Saturday on passengers from Mexico.
Japan's biggest international airport stepped up health surveillance, while the Philippines said it may quarantine passengers with fevers who have been to Mexico. Health authorities in Thailand and Hong Kong said they were closely monitoring the situation.
Asia has fresh memories of an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, which hit countries across the region and severely crippled global air travel.
Indonesia, China, Thailand, Vietnam and other countries have also seen a number of human deaths from H5N1 bird flu, the virus that researchers have until now fingered as the most likely cause of a future pandemic.
The Dutch government's Institute for Public Health and Environment has advised any traveler who returned from Mexico since April 17 and develops a fever over 101.3 degrees Fahrenheit (38.5 Celsius) within four days of arriving in the Netherlands to stay at home.
The Polish Foreign Ministry has issued a statement that recommends that Poles postpone any travel plans to regions where the outbreak has occurred until it is totally contained.
The Stockholm-based European Center for Disease Prevention and Control said earlier Saturday it shared the concerns about the swine flu cases and stood ready to lend support in any way possible.
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Associated Press Writer Maria Cheng in London, and AP writers around the world contributed to this report.
Mexico’s Calderon Declares Emergency, Right to Quarantine, Amid Swine Flu Outbreak
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aEsNownABJ6Q&refe...
By Thomas Black
April 25 (Bloomberg) -- Mexican President Felipe Calderon declared an emergency in his country’s swine flu outbreak, giving him powers to order quarantines and suspend public events.
Authorities have canceled school at all levels in Mexico City and the state of Mexico until further notice, and the government has shut most public and government activities in the area. The emergency decree, published today in the state gazette, gives the president authority to take more action.
“The federal government under my charge will not hesitate a moment to take all, all the measures necessary to respond with efficiency and opportunity to this respiratory epidemic,” Calderon said today during a speech to inaugurate a hospital in the southern state of Oaxaca.
At least 20 deaths in Mexico from the disease are confirmed, Health Minister Jose Cordova said yesterday. The strain is a variant of H1N1 swine influenza that has also sickened at least eight people in California and Texas. As many as 68 deaths may be attributed to the virus in Mexico, and about 1,000 people in the Mexico City area are showing symptoms of the illness, Cordoba said.
Obama’s Visit
The first case was seen in Mexico on April 13. The outbreak coincided with the President Barack Obama’s trip to Mexico City on April 16. Obama was received at Mexico’s anthropology museum in Mexico City by Felipe Solis, a distinguished archeologist who died the following day from symptoms similar to flu, Reforma newspaper reported. The newspaper didn’t confirm if Solis had swine flu or not.
The Mexican government is distributing breathing masks to curtail the disease’s spread. There is no vaccine against the new strain of swine flu, health authorities said.
Museums, theaters and other venues in the Mexico City area, where large crowds gather, have shut down voluntarily and concerts and other events canceled to help contain the disease. Two professional soccer games will be played tomorrow in different Mexico City stadiums without any fans, El Universal newspaper reported. Catholic masses will be held, the newspaper said, although church officials urged worshipers to wear breath masks and to avoid contact.
Schools will likely remain closed next week, Calderon said in the Oaxaca speech. The decree allows Calderon to regulate transportation, enter any home or building for inspection, order quarantines and assign any task to all federal, state and local authorities as well as health professionals to combat the disease.
“The health of Mexicans is a cause that we’re defending with unity and responsibility,” Calderon said. “I know that although it’s a grave problem, a serious problem, we’re going to overcome it.”
Normal Airport Operations
Mexico City’s international airport, which handles about 70,000 passengers each day, is operating normally, said Victor Mejia, a spokesman. Passengers are given a questionnaire asking if they have flu symptoms and recommending they cancel their trip and see a doctor if they do. The measures are voluntary, Mejia said, and no case of swine flu in airport passengers, workers or visitors has been confirmed.
Authorities throughout Central America have issued alerts to prevent the outbreak from spreading. Guatemala ordered tighter control yesterday of its northern border with Mexico, according to EFE. Gerberth Morales, who’s heading the Guatemala government’s response, said no cases of swine flu have been reported in his country, the Spanish news agency reported.
Brazil is intensifying vigilance in ports, airports and borders to check travelers’ health, luggage, aircrafts and ships in a preventive action against the outbreak in Mexico, the Agency for Sanitary Vigilance said on its Web site.
To contact the reporter on this story: Thomas Black in Monterrey at tblack@bloomberg.net
Last Updated: April 25, 2009 16:45 EDT
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