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Bird Flu and your immune system

To my readers….
The Abadjieff Immune Focused Therapy is dedicated to rejuvenation of the immune system. It is the first line of defense as new and resistant diseases appear around the world. A rejuvenated and strong immune system helps protect the body from those diseases that my clinic treats specifically as well as a host of other bacteria, viruses and micro-organisms. Today there is no better protection from such threats as f.e. “the bird flu” than your own rejuvenated immune system.

While the World Health Organization and the United Nations recently have appointed a “bird flu czar” to coordinate the study of the problem of bird flu, also called AVIAN FLU, the implications for vibrant immune system health comes into focus.
The killer avian influenza, also known as bird flu, broke out in eight Asian countries late in 2003, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam all reported infected poultry. In late June 2004, lethal outbreaks of infection among poultry broke out again, including in China and Malaysia. In March 2005, North Korea reported its first outbreak of bird flu. More than 140 million birds have died from the disease or have been killed to prevent further spread. The disease as of lately spread to other countries. Today more human cases were found to exist in Indonesia.

At first, most experts in the scientific and medical community believed that the disease was unlikely to be communicated to humans. The bad news came in 1997 when the first cases appeared in Hong Kong. Human to human infection became a reality recently, when two people having bird flu were confirmed to have caught it from another human. With human infection a reality, the fear of an epidemic comes into focus.

Based on historical patterns, the World Health Organization expects influenza pandemics to occur on an average of three to four times each century when new virus sub-types emerge and are readily transmitted from person to person. In the 20th century, the great influenza pandemic of 1918-19, which caused an estimated 40 million to 50 million deaths worldwide, was followed by pandemics in 1957 and in 1968. The effort to control bird flu comes into focus when considering these numbers.

These concerns point to the necessity of keeping ourselves and our immune systems healthy.