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HOW TO PREPARE FOR AND SURVIVE THE COMING BIRD FLU EPIDEMIC
WITH HEALTHY FOOD & NATURAL PRODUCTS
Alliance for Natural Health and British Society for Ecological Medicine
April 25, 2006

http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/index.cfm?action=news&ID=235

ANH Avian Flu Expert Committee today launched a report on nutritional
protocols that could be used to reduce the reduce death and illness
associated with a bird flu pandemic.

Nutritional protocols to counter lack of vaccines and antiviral drugs in a
Bird Flu pandemic

Following an invitation by Dr David Narbarro, UN global coordinator on Avian
Influenza, to submit natural prevention and treatment recommendations for a
human avian influenza pandemic, the British Society for Ecological Medicine
(BSEM) and the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) formed a collaboration to
write a detailed, evidence-based report on the subject.  The report,
entitled "The Pivotal Role for Natural Products in Countering an Avian
Influenza Pandemic" was launched today at the Institute of Physics, Portland
Place London WC1, having first been submitted to the World Health
Organization on March 27th 2006.

The report focuses on the key nutrients zinc, vitamin C, and vitamin A as
primary interventions for the prevention and treatment of human H5N1
influenza infection and its complications, and has been authored by four
leading scientists and doctors in the fields of nutritional medicine and
health.

Dr. Damien Downing, president of BSEM, stated: "following an extensive
review of over 250 peer reviewed studies, we believe that the protocols
developed here can help to buy time and fill the gap between the outbreak of
a pandemic and the months or years required for development and manufacture
of effective vaccines.  What is more, manufacture of these nutrients can be
easily scaled up to meet global needs, and is likely to be a highly cost
effective intervention.  If governments were to ignore the available
evidence, as well as recent research and trials on natural products against
the H5N1 virus, this would amount, in our view, to an act of gross
professional negligence."

It is widely recognized that vaccines will take at least 6 months to develop
if Bird Flu mutates to cause a human pandemic, and that years may be
required to produce enough material to vaccinate entire national
populations, by which time the most lethal waves of a pandemic will have
passed.

Present international strategies rely heavily on the use of anti-viral drugs
such as Tamiflu (oseltamivir) as the primary medical intervention for human
avian influenza treatment, along with physical interventions for prevention
of infection, such as improved personal hygiene, quarantine and social
distancing.

It is hoped by governments that H5N1 antiviral drug resistance will not
emerge rapidly, and that this containment and control strategy will be
sufficient until vaccines become widely available.  Clearly, this is a high
risk strategy and there is a need for other interventions to counter both
the possibility of multiple pandemic viral strains, and the risk of viral
drug resistance developing early on in a pandemic.

Dr Robert Verkerk, lead author of the report and the ANH Executive and
Scientific Director said: "we believe that the prevention and self-treatment
protocols put forward here can be easily accessed and self-administered by
populations everywhere.  The hospital treatment protocols may offer
particular hope to populations in those developing countries which are not
likely to have access to anti-viral drugs or vaccines."

Verkerk added: "We hope that the WHO will take on board the key
recommendations of our report with all possible speed, given the severity
and imminence of the threat.  It would be tragic if the WHO allowed any
national prejudices that may exist with regard to natural interventions to
interfere with adoption of these protocols, especially when vaccines will be
unavailable in the early months of a pandemic.  Many lives across the world
may depend on the use of these protocols if a human H5N1 pandemic emerges in
the near future."

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For specific recommendations, including vitamin dosages and lifestyle
suggestions, see the full report:

http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/_docs/ANHwebsiteDoc_232.pdf

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For further information, contact:

Isobel Bradley or Meleni Aldridge
The Alliance for Natural Health
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