Dr. Mercola April 17 2007 21,947 views
A report comparing how well the city of St. Louis survived the flu epidemic of 1918 versus those living in Philadelphia has uncovered some of the reasons that St. Louis fared significantly better.
Most importantly, St. Louis officials took steps sooner than Philadelphia did to limit exposure to the flu once the first cases were reported.
However, St. Louis did not act by doling out drugs; instead, officials enforced shutdowns of public schools, churches and other places where people congregate and very likely pass around the flu, while quarantining the infected from the healthy.
Because Philadelphia officials delayed their preparations by two weeks, the death toll in that city was more than double that of St. Louis. More than 700 out of every 100,000 Philadelphians died during the 1918 flu epidemic (a total of more than 12,000) versus 347 per 100,000 in St. Louis.
The CDC noted that "those who used nonpharmaceutical measures effectively were able to mitigate the impact of the severe pandemics, and this is consistent with some of the 21st-century simulation models."
Dr. Mercola's Comment:
If you ever doubted the benefits of taking common sense, non-pharmaceutical precautions to battle an epidemic like the flu versus drugs, I urge you to read this interesting report.
It provides a crystal clear demonstration as to why some states in America have remained skeptical about stockpiling useless, toxic vaccines and drugs for a bird flu pandemic that never came.
What you MUST understand is that people are dying from the flu because they are already sick and have compromised immune systems. The ultimate treatment for the flu is proactive prevention of following a Take Control of Your Health lifestyle.
You don't need health-harming drugs to strengthen your immune system if you follow these effective flu prevention steps:
You can learn more about the conspiracy behind the flu scare and what you can do protect your health by reading my book, The Great Bird Flu Hoax.
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In 1918 the Arapaho Indians are on record for healing themselves and many white people of the flu with the anti viral herb: Osha Root! (Ligustcum pertori)
It was this information that led me to become a Clinical Herbalist after I was completely healed of a deadly viral pneumonia by using this herb I found growing in the Arizona High Mountains, This whole story can be found here on my site at this page.
In my 20 years as a Clinical Herbalist I have combined this herb and many other strong anti-viral plants (both Chinese and American) Into a formula that will kill just about any virus called Viral Defense (Mine was the original) Viral Infection of any kind is a breeze for Plant Medicine! Why don't people get it ???
Just don’t let an MD get to you first, they will really screw you up!
It is high time we quit letting Big Pharma kill us when we can so easily cure disease with out drugs!
Katybr55 - I cannot answer until I can adopt my Witch Doctor persona again. In the meantime, I think I am safe from the P-T-B, but what does it stand for?
I have to disagree with part of your comments. Some people cannot boost their immune systems just by eating certain foods (and even normal people sometimes have to eat a LOT of certain foods to resist disease). You have to factor in environmental factors too.
We live in a disease ridden world and our bodies have been flawed since the fall of man.
Some people are susceptible to diseases like flu and flu (or at least its complications) kills. Vaccines save lives.
I have a compromised immune system due to certain diseases and I have never had the flu since getting the vaccine every year.