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To: TigerPaw who wrote (62445)	10/24/2004 2:43:53 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

It already has. So far, in my county, I think it's only hit birds and horsies, but people have caught it elsewhere. I've been figuring odds. The figure going around for deaths from flu is 35K. Accidents killed 106K in ought one. I think about 55K of those were car accidents. We are almost twice as likely to die in a car accident as from the flu, maybe even on the way to the doc's for a flu shot. 3 times as likely to die from accidents in general, like slipping in the bath tub, running your elf over wif a lawnmower, etc. Then there is this... (doesn't mention that the hospitals probably treated more people for Guillan-Barre from the vaccine than patients with swine flu a couple of years back.......................................................... Medical system is leading cause of death and injury in US Shocking statistical evidence is cited by Gary Null PhD, Caroly Dean MD ND, Martin Feldman MD, Debora Rasio MD and Dorothy Smith PhD in their recent paper Death by Medicine - October 2003, released by the Nutrition Institute of America. "A definitive review and close reading of medical peer-review journals, and government health statistics shows that American medicine frequently causes more harm than good. The number of people having in-hospital, adverse drug reactions (ADR) to prescribed medicine is 2.2 million. Dr. Richard Besser, of the CDC, in 1995, said the number of unnecessary antibiotics prescribed annually for viral infections was 20 million. Dr. Besser, in 2003, now refers to tens of millions of unnecessary antibiotics. The number of unnecessary medical and surgical procedures performed annually is 7.5 million. The number of people exposed to unnecessary hospitalization annually is 8.9 million. The total number of iatrogenic deaths shown in the following table is 783,936. It is evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the United States. The 2001 heart disease annual death rate is 699,697; the annual cancer death rate, 553,251. Health Care expenditures in the US have reached 14% of the Gross National Product and a staggering $1.6 trillion in 2003. No wonder, one might be tempted to say. With such an appalling record of efficacy and such an unbelievable death rate for the treatments routinely administered, the current medical system can only be said to be in great need of deep reform. Certainly it would appear more urgent to investigate the rationale, efficacy and relative cost-effectiveness of pharmaceutical medicine than to legislate restrictive rules for supplements of vital nutrients, as most governments and some international organisations are doing in these times. newmediaexplorer.org