Emerging infectious diseases are one of the biggest threats to humanity. The domestication of animals exposed humans to new and deadly diseases. Recently, drugged-up livestock animals on intensive confinement factory farms incubated a highly infectious HINI virus that set off a global pandemic.
It is important to know how to protect your children and yourself with homeopathic and natural alternatives to vaccines to build your natural immunity to the swine flu.

Is Our Demand for Cheap Food Putting Our Health at Risk?

A group has released a new report summarising the deadly diseases which can be linked to intensive, factory farming. Swine flu, the report pointed out, came from pigs and had killed more than 18,000 people around the world. In the UK, there are...

Is Our Demand for Cheap Food Putting Our Health at Risk?2010-05-30T20:40:16+00:00

Lessons from Swine Flu

The American media circus has moved on, the drugstores are removing the "H1N1 Vaccinations Available Here" signs, and most people are engaged with other concerns. Like SARS, avian flu and hantavirus, swine flu is yesterday's scare. But perhaps we...

Lessons from Swine Flu2010-05-05T13:01:26+00:00

USDA Inspector General: Meat Supply Routinely Tainted with Harmful Residues

Next time you're at an eatery whose sourcing practices you don't trust, avoid the veal. Skip the burger, too. Those are the immediate takeaways from this stomach-turning report from the USDA's Office of the Inspector General. The long-term...

USDA Inspector General: Meat Supply Routinely Tainted with Harmful Residues2010-04-16T13:52:43+00:00

CDC: E. coli Illnesses on Decline, but Other Foodborne Infections Increasing

Efforts to reduce illnesses caused by one of the most dangerous foodborne bacteria, E. coli O157:H7, appear to be paying off, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday, but sickness caused by other pathogens is rising.

CDC: E. coli Illnesses on Decline, but Other Foodborne Infections Increasing2010-04-16T13:14:08+00:00

New Drug-Resistant Bacteria Emerging in Hospitals

Researchers from the "Extending the Cure" project in Washington, D.C., have published a report in the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology about a new drug-resistant bug that is plaguing many hospitals. Called Acinetobacter, this...

New Drug-Resistant Bacteria Emerging in Hospitals2010-03-08T09:52:25+00:00

Rising Threat of Infections Unfazed by Antibiotics

A minor-league pitcher in his younger days, Richard Armbruster kept playing baseball recreationally into his 70s, until his right hip started bothering him. Last February he went to a St. Louis hospital for what was to be a routine hip replacement.

Rising Threat of Infections Unfazed by Antibiotics2010-03-02T11:19:56+00:00

Swine Flu and Agribusiness of Meat

In the midst of the stir and alarm caused by the H1N1 (Swine Flu) virus, it appears that the pandemic's place of origin has been forgotten: a Mexican community located near pig farms owned by the Granjas Carroll corporation.

Swine Flu and Agribusiness of Meat2010-01-22T12:26:31+00:00

WHO to Study H1N1 Response Amid False Pandemic Debate

The World Health Organization said it plans to conduct a review of its response to swine flu as policymakers in Europe prepare for an "urgent debate" on the influenza pandemic.

WHO to Study H1N1 Response Amid False Pandemic Debate2010-01-21T10:17:11+00:00