Recent health scares include SARS, bird flu, and 'superbugs.' What health threat do you think looms in 2008?

Question

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Answer 1

MRSA, and any organism that is developing antibiotic resistant strains. People haven't really paid much attention to the little bugs that live on us daily but can kill us. I am positive that the overuse of anti-bacterial soaps , cleansers, hand sanitizers, etc is actually encouraging the growth of the resistant strains, without really affecting the things people are really using them for: the common cold. (The cold is a virus and not touched by anti-bacterial anything.)

Answer 2

The only reason MRSA and the "Superbugs" continue to be a threat, is because medical "science" relies on the biological "dead end" known as anti-biotics.

Every anerobic bacteria in existance can be wiped out through the judicious use of vitamin C and colloidal silver.

(You WILL NOT "turn blue" from using colloidal silver. I've drank gallons of the stuff.)

Even viruses like SARS, Bird Flu, HIV and AIDS cannot withstand the vicious attack that vitamin C and colloidal silver unleashes on these organisms.

In the final analysis, anti-biotics can only kill a handful of anerobic bacteria. That's what makes them a biological "dead end".

Medical "science" needs to fess up and admit the fact that they don't have all of the answers.

Alternative therapies and treatments fill in the gaps that medical "science" obviously can't cover.

Wicked virus killers like Oregano Oil and Cat's Claw (Una del Gato) have gotten short shrift for decades while we have sat around, waiting for Big Pharma to come up with something that will kill disease, without killing us in the process.

Even the lowly enzyme Protease (pro-tee-ACE), the world's greatest "garbage collector", when put in the body, will eat everything in the body except living tissue and has a particular love for eating viruses.

The old saying, "Science advances with every funeral" is especially true with medical "science".

As the "old guard" dies away, minerals, vitamins and herbs will rule the day.

Ignore alternative health at your own risk.

Paracelsus

Answer 3

The worse health threats will come from preexsisting diseases, infectious agents becoming more virulent by
the continuation of damaging the ecological balance.
Global Warming alone will be the driving force in changing the healthy equalizers of the environment, to allow the over-
growth of bad bacteria and formerly suppressed viruses,toxic molds and a host of other sickening microbes to emerge.

More and more people will get swept up in a perpetual state of "dis-ease", and anyone who have a compromised immune system such as the very young & elderly,also who suffer from genetic ailments incl. allergic diseases..will be hit the hardest.
More consequences of Climate change seen in 2008-2013 will be the loss of proper nutrition from crop losses.
As plant species used for both foods and medicinal start to go under, (and heaven help us all if the honeybees go extinct)
it will be an empty cornucopia further undermining our ability to ward off even once considered minor infections.

So my answer is....people are looking at only a small fraction of a MUCH larger and multifarious dreary picture.
Restore the natural balance to the planet by ending the last 100 + year science projects gone bad, turn the clock back to a non-toxic planet...maybe we might get somewhere.
Unfortunately technology has gotten us into this hellish mess,
it will still be partially needed to help get us out.
Just remember for every unnatural action man makes on the planet to attempt to fix something,we create several new problems in return.Dump western meds, and manmade chemicals>>>>
Go GREEN...try it,you might/will like it.

Answer 4

The most insidious and epidemic health threat is the Vertebral Subluxation Complex (VSC). The simple explanation is that this is an interference to the body's organ of function the brain and nervous system. When the nervous system is interfered with the body is in a compromised state of dis-ease. Unfortunately, in our society we have been brought up to look at the body in a mechanistic way...as if the different parts are independent. That is why people think they have an immune problem, a respiratory problem, or a hormonal problem. The fact of the matter is that they have a lack of health, their body isn't functioning the way it should. We were born to express health, but unfortunately VSC interferes with our innate capacity to function at 100%. The evidence is all around us...kids are more sick today than ever. Newer drugs, vaccines and cures aren't the answer. We need to look to the cause and not the effects...

Answer 5

This is related to your question, but in the Philippines.
Here, the television says "If you find a dead bird, or know of chickens that are sick or dying, report them to your local Health Department".
In Riverside,Consolacion, Cebu, a sickness wiped out almost all of the chickens in one neighborhood.
When we called it in (when they first started getting sick), we were told there was nothing they could do and just bury them as they died.
They claimed that they didn't have the resources to deal with problems concerning birds and the U.S. was at fault because they wouldn't send the needed money to monitor the problem.
I know for a fact, by monitoring the Grants received links on the internet, that the U.S. does indeed send many millions of dollars here and so does the World Health Organization, but it never reaches the people or projects that it is meant for.
When will the foriegners learn, they are just supporting an anti-democratic Dictatorship here?
The loyalties of our government are to which ever entity sends the most money at the time, and not to the people!

Answer 6

I have recently read that scientists are taking extinct viruses and reviving them, I think there is the possibility that someday somewhere one of these extinct super-viruses might somehow be either "accidently released" into a unsuspecting captive population, probably some poor third world country or a minority neighborhood near a level three bio-hazard research type institution similar to what they are trying to put into some densely populated innercity neighborhoods in various cities in this country. The combination of a virulent strain of a virus combined with a population of poor, already not very healthy locals could combine to start an epidemic amongst those people who are deemed undesirables or expendable by the powers to be... that could end up wiping out more than just this population but a good chunk of the rest of the world and igniting a world war between the haves and the have nots with the islamicfascists lined up against the hypercapitalists. This sounds like the plot to a few sci-fi movies, but sometimes real life scenarios happen eerily just like the movies.

Answer 7

Due to the erratic climate change all over the world directly cause by man.
I believe many people from the poorer countries is going to face food and clean water shortages.
Eventually this will work it's way up to all the modernize country.

In another words the price of food all over the world is going up & up .The changes is already started.Price of bread and beef have gone up.

Solution to food shortage is to allocate more land for crops.As the current population of the world have increased there is already insufficient supply of food as of now.

Please do something ,i feel there won't be a fourth generation as of now if nothing is done today.
There are things which money can't buy.

Answer 8

MRSA and other antibiotic resistant organisms (ARO's) will continue to be the greatest threat in the short term, however the threat of pandemic influenza remains the greatest health challenge, and in some ways is linked to the ARO's debate, as antiviral medications also suffer from declining effectiveness due to developing resistance by viruses. The fact that oseltamivir does not break down during sewage processing means that a lot of wild birds (avian influenza reservoirs) are being exposed to low levels of this drug, which allows the virus to be exposed to ineffective levels, but sufficient to "learn and adapt."

Answer 9

Right now where I live (Cincinnati) there seems to be a rising problem with MRSA - methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus. There have been a few deaths among children and it's sweeping the high school sports locker rooms. I think it's being hyped by the media for ratings - you know, "Locker Rooms of Death" type reports during November sweeps. We'll see.

We also are seeing a huge outbreak of bedbugs. Group homes for the disabled and apartment complexes are being closed. Predictably, those less tolerant are blaming illegal immigrants.

Answer 10

The biggest health threat is the unlicensed, phoney doctors that our society overlooks. This has become one giant problem that can be stopped but has been ignored by our government. What good is health care when you're dealing with doctors covering for each other when they make medical mistakes? I say turn the suckers in and you will be shocked to find out just how many are really quacks!!

Answer 11

I think we'll continue to see concern with antibiotic resistant skin infections in 2008.
When rain returns to the Southeast, in 2009 or 2010, we may be surprised with some nasty mosquito carried diseases in isolated areas - malaria or dengue fever.
The good news is that the flu pandemic will probably hold out until 2011, the peak of the next solar cycle, because there seems to be a relationship between them.