CẬP NHẬT VỀ CÚM HEO

[Nhím Hoàng Kim]

212. CẬP NHẬT VỀ CÚM HEO



Swine flu still a growing health threat - 19 Jun 2010

Virologists who have been monitoring pigs at a Hong Kong slaughterhouse report that the human-transmitted 2009 H1N1 swine flu virus has re-combined with the pigs’ genetic material, creating a new strain. This viral combination includes one gene from the pandemic swine flu virus plus others from the two strains that had originally mixed together to create the pandemic flu.

While the scientists state that this new 2010 H1N1 virus evolving in the pigs is not currently a threat to humans, they emphasize that the 2009 H1N1 pandemic virus, which is still affecting humans, is likely reasserting itself in slaughterhouses across the globe and could be more dangerous than ever if it mutates back to a form that infects humans.

US-based Columbia University epidemiologist Dr. Ian Lipkin described this potentially lethal cycle as he stated, “Everyone talks about viruses that go from animals to people, but it’s a two-way street.

We reintroduce them to animals, where they re-assort and become pathogenic.”

Meanwhile, India recently has seen an increase in swine flu cases and deaths, particularly in Kerala where officials were shocked as they recorded 17 deaths in a month with 201 diagnosed cases.

Bogotá, Colombia also saw a jump in confirmed cases from two per week to 14, with numbers increasing across the country as well. Dr. Lipkin and other international scientists, we appreciate this warning of swine flu’s continued threat to public health.

As we send our sympathies for the sad loss of lives, we pray that the suffering from this and all diseases originating in the inhumane livestock industry may cease as humanity awakens to the vital, life-sparing benefits of plant-based fare.

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[Nhím Hoàng Kim]

Swine flu complications continue to spread through Europe - 10 Jan 2011

Swine flu complications continue to spread through Europe. With the World Health Organization (WHO) warning that the outbreak has not yet peaked, this winter’s swine flu death toll climbed to 45 as of Thursday, January 6 in the United Kingdom, with most victims being children and young adults. Meanwhile, concerns have been raised of insufficient facilities for extremely ill patients in need of special oxygen equipment that acts as an artificial lung. In Greater Manchester, hospitals declared a flu emergency as they were forced to cancel over 1,000 operations to accommodate the increase of both swine flu and other flu patients.

In the Republic of Ireland, swine flu cases doubled in one week, with the Department of Health and Children reporting 5,400 cases. Elsewhere in Europe, French health officials have announced the incidence of flu in epidemic proportions, with swine flu being one of three strains that has infected a total of 176,000 people and claimed two lives. In Germany, two persons succumbed to the swine flu virus, while Austrian officials confirmed the first loss of life to swine flu there. The virus has also reemerged in Sweden, where a boy became the first to perish in the country on December 31, and in Norway, where two people have been hospitalized with the disease. In Croatia, one person perished and 150 have been diagnosed, with doctors warning that undiagnosed cases are likely to be much higher.

Our appreciation, all health officials and other personnel, for your initiatives to treat and stop the spread of this disease, as we send our condolences to those who have lost loved ones. May all of humanity soon adopt the ultimate preventive measure by switching to the life-sparing and health-affirming animal-free lifestyle.

Foreseeing this tragic event Supreme Master Ching Hai had designed the Alternative Living flyer some years ago and asked our Association members to distribute it worldwide since:

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[Nhím Hoàng Kim]

Factory farm pollution causes deadly sicknesses - 25 Jan 2011

Factory farm pollution causes deadly sicknesses. As reports of swine flu infections are in the thousands in certain countries, fatalities continue to mount globally. Shocking cases of the losses of healthy young fathers, mothers, a 3-year-old British girl who died within several hours of falling ill, and even the death of a man who had been vaccinated, show that many people are still extremely vulnerable to the virus. The concern rises again about the role of intensive pig farming, which has been identified by scientists as the environment that where the H1N1 swine flu virus originated. Such filthy and crowded conditions, which are found in all large concentrated animal farms, create automatic breeding grounds for even more deadly virus and bacteria-related diseases.

US epidemiologist Dr. Steve Wing of the University of North Carolina who has studied pollutants from pig and poultry farms and their effects on human health, emphasizes that the wide range of contaminating substances, which are largely unregulated, are being produced in unlimited quantities with no regard for human safety.

(Interview in English)
Dr. Steve Wing – Epidemiology professor, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health (M): The animal confinements release a very large number of chemicals and types of particular matter, from the confinement buildings, from the fecal waste pits, and the spray fields, because the pits fill up and they spray it on the land. The pollutants come from the animals, the dander, the decaying matter, the fecal matter, the bacteria, insects, dried feed, all these things. What we’re finding is there are changes in people’s symptoms and in their quality of life that correspond to levels of these pollutants that are below the levels that are set by regulatory agencies – when there are regulatory levels in the first place. For some things, there are no limits.

VOICE: One type of unregulated chemical found in the waste materials of factory farms in many countries is antibiotics. In a recent report from Eastern Michigan University's Center for Aquatic Microbial Ecology in the USA, researchers found that waterways near concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) had levels of multiple medication- resistant bacteria that were three times that of areas away from these factory farms. According to newly released data from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 80%, or 13.1 million kilograms, of all antibiotics sold in the USA are routinely fed to livestock to promote abnormally rapid growth. This practice undermines the medicines’ effectiveness in treating disease, with bacteria instead being able to mutate and become resistant. These “superbugs,” such as the potentially deadly E. coli bacteria, affect humans who consume infected meat or drink from contaminated waterways. The FDA identified the need to stop the rise of antibiotic-resistant pathogens such as E. coli bacteria, which can produce potentially fatal Shiga toxin, as well as multi-drug resistant Salmonella bacteria in the beef and poultry industries.

Our appreciation, Dr. Wing and all scientists involved in bringing attention to the lethally dangerous side effects of animal farming to human health. With sympathies to the families who have lost loved ones to the swine flu and other factory farm-related illnesses, we pray that all will choose plant-based fare that safeguards our health on many levels.

Foreseeing this tragic event Supreme Master Ching Hai had designed the Alternative Living flyer some years ago and asked our Association members to distribute it worldwide since:

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[Nhím Hoàng Kim]

More lives lost to H1N1 virus worldwide - 28 Feb 2011

More lives lost to H1N1 virus worldwide. As influenza activity in the US continues to increase, the US state of Oklahoma has reported three more deaths from the A/H1N1 swine flu strain, raising the toll to 15 since September 2010. In Asia, Hong Kong hospitals announced two more swine flu fatalities on Thursday, February 24, the latest of 22 victims in Hong Kong this year, while three new serious cases of the illness were confirmed within two days, with one patient in critical condition. Just the week before, the Department of Health said that a 33-year-old man was Hong Kong’s 10th patient to suffer from a strain of H1N1 with Tamiflu resistance. A 51-year-old woman in western Georgia became the 14th swine flu fatality in the South Caucasus country on February 21. Also that day in Greece, officials warned that 12 people lost their lives to the H1N1 strain within 24 hours, raising the European nation’s swine flu fatalities to 100 this season, with 127 more people hospitalized across Greece.

Our appreciation for the health officials and personnel working to ease the suffering and stop the spread of swine flu as we send our sympathies for the lives that continue to be sacrificed to this disease. May the day come soon that such illnesses are no more as we turn away from the inhumane and unhygienic raising of livestock to adopt only wholesome vegan alternatives instead.

Foreseeing this tragic event Supreme Master Ching Hai had designed the Alternative Living flyer some years ago and asked our Association members to distribute it worldwide since:

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[Nhím Hoàng Kim]

Swine flu outbreak hits Zambia school and takes lives in Georgia, Venezuela, and Mexico - 6 Apr 2011

Zambia's Ministry of Health announced that the pandemic Influenza A (H1N1) or swine flu has emerged at Fatima Girls Secondary School in Ndola city, Zambia where 8 out of 10 sample tests from ill pupils were confirmed positive for the virus on April 1.

In Georgia as well, the virus has claimed another life, adding to a total of 30 people who died from swine flu this year. In Venezuela, swine flu has spread to the capital Caracas and 17 other states since the outbreak on March 17 and has infected more than 700 people as of March 31, with eight deaths so far this year.

In the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, authorities have confirmed four people who died of swine flu and six other people infected with the virus at the end of March.

The H1N1 swine flu strain has been known to originate in large-scale livestock farms whose filthy, crowded conditions breed pathogens harmful to animal and human health.

Our sympathies to those who have lost loved ones to this heart-breaking illness as we pray for an end to the suffering from this and all such related diseases as humanity transitions to the safe and compassionate vegan lifestyle.

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