We are not going to avoid the flu bug; it has been coming back around throughout the ages. The Bird Flu could have been the Spanish Flu of 1918 revisiting us.
Read Cold Comfort by Laura Stephenson Carter.
Flu epidemics have been around all through the ages. The following are a few excerpts taken from Path To Perfect Health published in 2006.
The NUMBER SEVEN killer is pneumonia/influenza. There were 65,681 deaths in 2002, a decrease from 95,440 deaths in 2000. Only 63,730 died of pneumonia/influenza in 1999. The obsessive distribution of antibiotics creates weak immune systems and more intelligent germs. The flu bug just wants to survive too!
I thought this was interesting Medlmmune is using the olfactory system for their vaccine, which is actually an aromatherapy delivery system!
MedImmune has been striving to prove that drug inhalation can be an effective therapy. This company has produced a FluMist Vaccine. This is an article found in the December 2003 issue of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine, December 2003. It is entitled “Hot Stock? “Only the NOSE Knows”. In summary the article explains that analysts are sniffing the investment opportunities of MedImmune, which makes the FluMist nasal spray vaccine.
MedImmune: • Nasdaq symbol: MEDI, • Recent price: $32, • 52- week high: $42, • 52 week low: $23, • P/E ratio on 2004 estimated earnings: 27.
“MedImmune is one of the more profitable biotech companies,” says John McCamant, editor of Medical Technology Stock Letter, “and it is making the transition to a biopharmaceutical firm”. The company has launched a 25 million dollar ad campaign and is giving a 10% discount to companies that offer FluMist to their employees. Stock rose following the FDA approval; however, further increases depend on FluMist’s success which is not guaranteed. FluMist is administered at pharmacies and doctors’ offices, but only to healthy individuals between the ages of 5 and 49. The cost per dose is between $46 and $55, compared to $10 to $25 for a regular flu shot. The company hopes to build a demand for the vaccine over several years. The first year 4.5 million doses were available. The advertising campaign was launched shortly before the media caused the flu vaccine shortage panic. Interesting coincidence... or is it?
According to Dr. Catherine Baase, the global medical director for Dow Chemical and a member of the advisory board of the Institute for Health and Productivity, “The flu costs U.S. employers more than $11 billion in lost productivity annually. Even in years when we have a vaccine, it’s difficult to predict how many people will still be affected by the flu. That’s because the virus tends to mutate, so the vaccine’s coverage will be better in some years than in others.”
The vaccine does not strengthen or support the body’s own immune defense systems, so it is like trying to hit a moving target with one bullet. This treatment may expose the user to severe side effects. Whereas the essential oils work on so many levels at once that they hit the target with one healing property or another while reconnecting and strengthening the body’s defenses; immune system.
Compare $11 billion in losses and $45 for a dose for a flu vaccine to the 10 cents it would cost them for an aromatherapy treatment using Cold & Flu essential oil formula. This recipe includes eucalyptus, tea tree and lemon GC/MS 100% pure essential oils. It relieves symptoms of colds, bronchitis, sore throats, sinusitis and respiratory congestion, as well as the aches and pains associated with flu symptoms. You don’t have to concoct a tea, rub on a poultice or create a herbal tonic; you can just carry it with you in your pocket and inhale at will. Essential oils are 300 times more powerful than the plant, herb, flower, fruit, seed, wood or root that they are derived from. There are no recorded deaths due to the common sense use of the essential oils over the past 7,000 years. There are no dangerous side effects when introducing a constituent created from nature unlike the synthetically manufactured drugs responsible for 800,000 deaths each year in the USA. Read Death by Medicine.
The essential oils strengthen the immune system, correct the cellular communication and will not initiate a virus into mutating and becoming a superbug. Go to Aromatherapy to learn how the essential oils work within your cellular community.
Biology Professor Hatch Stokes of Macquarie University suggests, “The rise and spread of antibiotic resistance can only continue” (Daily Telegraph, Sydney, Dec. 7, 2003). The antibiotic-resistant genes have increased to 89 from just 15 since 1991. These genes have led to a re-emergence of diseases like tuberculosis and methicillin. Methicillin has become a resistant staphylococcus aureaus (MRSA) and is making a comeback as the superbug. Dr. Francoise Perdreau-Remington, an infectious-disease specialist at the University of California in San Francisco, claims it is “now spreading all over California” (San Jose Mercury News, California January 26, 2004). Dr. Daniel Skiest, and infectious-disease specialist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, admits, “We never thought it would get out of control like this” (Dallas Morning News, Dec. 12, 2004).
Health insurance costs increased 15% in 2004. This is the fourth straight year of double-digit hikes. Companies are paying twice as much to cover their workers as they did six years ago with premiums now running about $4,000 a year “per employee-only coverage” and about $10,000 for families.
Crazy isn't it when corporations could choose to spend pennies a day and simply diffuse the Protection essential oil formula. This formula contains cinnamon, nutmeg, lemon, clove, eucalyptus and rosemary GC/MS 100% pure essential oils. All of which are highly antiviral, antiseptic, anti-infectious which protects and clears the environment from airborne bacteria. This would prove to be a great financial gain.
February 23, 2009 Catherine M. Baase, M.D. Global Director of Health Services for the Dow Chemical Company gave her testimony before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. Here is the link to her testimony in tact:
"Principles of Integrated Health: A Path to Health Care Reform"
A few highlights from the testimony of Catherine M. Baase, M.D.:
“From the business perspective, based on data from the Towers Perrin Health Care Cost Survey, we project average health care costs will increase 6% this year alone to an average total per employee cost of $9,552. While the rate of growth is holding steady with prior year increases, companies and their employees still face record-high costs in 2009. Costs of this magnitude – and continuing increases above core economic inflation – are clearly problematic, most especially now, in a steep recessionary environment.
To put this in perspective, for an individual company like Dow, the total economic impact (direct and indirect costs) related to the health of our people exceeds $700 million annually. We spend nearly $300 million per year on direct health care costs in the U.S. alone. From our 2007 summary, this was about 30 cents per share or 70% of what we spent on research and development.
From the cost of health care to the impact of worker health on productivity, every business or enterprise clearly has a natural alignment between the health of its people and its overall success. The two are closely interwoven. So, it is of consequence there is now consensus that current and future spending in employee health is unsustainable, and poses a significant threat to the overall competitiveness of American businesses within the global marketplace.
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