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Envisioning a 21st-Century Quarantine
By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer

WASHINGTON -- Quarantine -- or some version of it -- in a 21st-century flu pandemic would look very different from the medieval stereotype of diseased outcasts locked in a do-not-enter zone.

President Bush's specter of a military-enforced mass quarantine is prompting debate of the Q-word as health officials update the nation's plan for battling a pandemic -- a plan expected to define who decides when and how to separate the contagious from everyone else.

"All the options need to be on the table," said Dr. Marty Cetron, head of quarantine at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Bush's comments recall how quarantines were enforced in parts of this country in the 1890s, when armed guards patrolled streets to keep victims of smallpox and other dread diseases confined to their homes.

"The image that perhaps was inadvertently conveyed is really a setting in extreme that's less likely," Cetron cautioned. "There's a whole range of options in the public-health toolbox for ways to achieve this goal of social distancing."

For three years the CDC has been helping states plan how they would enact quarantines in case of a bioterrorism attack. The instructions stress using the least restrictive means necessary to stem an infection's spread.

And public health officials expect a U.S. quarantine today to almost always be voluntary, with incentives to cooperate. In case of a horrific outbreak, quarantined areas would get first shipments of scarce medicines.

"I don't think either the Tennessee National Guard or the U.S. Army and Marines will try to establish a cordon sanitaire around Nashville," said Dr. William Schaffner of Vanderbilt University, an influenza expert who advises the federal government. "That's not going to happen."

Actually, "we practice in this country quarantine every day," said Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt. "If a child gets the measles, their mothers are expected to keep them at home."

Vaccination is the cornerstone of fighting a pandemic, and quarantine-like steps are supposed to be brief, "designed to buy time until we have an adequate supply of countermeasures," CDC's Cetron said.

The SARS epidemic of 2003 illustrated that "the public will voluntarily comply with measures to both protect themselves and their loved ones" -- if doctors make the case that the steps are for their own good, he added.

Legally, "isolation" is the term for separating people who already are sick from others. That happens routinely in hospitals, as they limit access to patients being treated for certain infections.

"Quarantine" means restricting the movement of still healthy people who may have been exposed to an infectious disease, in case they're carrying it. It's almost always for a brief time; during SARS, for instance, hospital workers exposed to suspect cases were asked to stay home from work during the respiratory disease's 10-day incubation period.

States have the primary legal authority to enact quarantines during outbreaks within their borders. Federal quarantine authority involves preventing infectious diseases from entering the country and stopping interstate spread. Expanding that authority to encompass a military role might entail legislation, something lawmakers' staffs have begun mulling as public health experts downplay the need.

With SARS, CDC used its existing authority to stop that virus from spreading here like it did in Asia: Over three months, CDC workers delayed on the tarmac 12,000 airplanes carrying 3 million passengers arriving from SARS-affected countries. Anyone with SARS symptoms was isolated. Anyone possibly exposed was told what symptoms to watch for in the next 10 days and how to seek help without exposing entire emergency rooms if symptoms arose.

SARS showed that tracking down patients and people they may have exposed -- allowing individuals, not large areas, to be contained -- can work, Cetron said.

At the same time, a super-flu would demand more intense measures because it would spread more easily, perhaps even before symptoms appeared. Drafts of the pandemic plan make clear that affected communities would probably close schools, shut down large gatherings and restrict travel.

Ramping up gradually is crucial to minimize social and economic fallout, Schaffner cautioned.

He offered his home city of Nashville as an example: Authorities first might urge people to watch the Titans play football on TV instead of at the stadium, and to avoid shopping malls. Then schools might close for a while. Then people might be told to postpone holidays or business trips to Nashville, all steps to stem transmission by minimizing contact -- but well short of compulsory quarantine.

"We're going to have to permit ourselves a graduated, intelligent response to the magnitude of the threat," he concluded.

*** Lauran Neergaard covers health and medical issues for The Associated Press in Washington.

The study, from Children's Hospital Boston, showed that preschool-age children are the first to show up each year in emergency rooms and clinics with flu, a pattern that typically begins in late September. Babies younger than 2 tend to arrive with symptoms a week or two later, while older children begin to arrive in October. Adults don't generally show up until November.

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A BURST OF FRESH AIR

Deep-sea divers have long known the benefits of hyperbaric oxygen treatment (HBOT) -- a method for efficient delivery of pure oxygen -- to treat those with the "bends," a condition that can occur as a diver rises to the surface and the changing pressure causes nitrogen gas bubbles to form in the lungs, tissues and bloodstream, leading to a potentially lethal blood flow blockage. Today, doctors use HBOT to treat a number of other conditions -- carbon monoxide and cyanide poisoning, wounds that aren't healing properly, serious burns, soft tissue and bone infections and certain complications from radiation therapy. While everyone agrees about the usefulness of HBOT for these conditions, there is another usage that is generating much debate -- the practice of using HBOT to address neurological problems, including brain damage from strokes.

ABOUT HBOT

HBOT administers 100% oxygen (versus the 21% that is in the air we breathe) in a chamber with an air pressure considerably greater than the air around us. The pressure dramatically raises the number of oxygen molecules entering the bloodstream -- by as much as 2,000%. The vastly increased oxygen level allows the oxygen to reach bone and tissue that it normally can't reach, where it may accelerate healing. The oxygen also can enhance functioning of white blood cells, the infection fighters, which may improve aspects of immune system function. It is the ability to heal tissue that has neurologists evaluating HBO for use with stroke patients. Harry T. Whelan, MD, medical director of the Froedtert & Medical College Hyperbaric Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin, is leading a new study to determine the effectiveness of HBOT for acute stroke treatment. I called him to discuss this and what HBOT might do for stroke patients.

OXYGEN AND STROKE

Dr. Whelan explains that an ischemic stroke -- caused by a blocked artery -- kills some brain tissue that is deprived of oxygen. However, although the tissue in the surrounding area, which is called the ischemic penumbra, is starving for more blood, it continues to have at least some oxygen from nearby unblocked vessels, so this tissue continues to survive in an extremely delicate position. The smallest change can kill it or, conversely, rescue it from destruction, potentially saving a great deal of the patient's future functioning. By using HBOT for treating ischemic stroke, concentrated levels of oxygen are rapidly delivered to the ischemic penumbra, helping to heal and improve blood flow to this precarious tissue as well as helping prompt formation of new blood vessels in the area. Dr. Whelan says that patients must receive therapy within 24 hours of the stroke and preferably within six to 10 hours. His institution has reviewed the medical literature and is ready to start the pilot study this fall, with broader expansion in about two years.

HBOT FOR PREVIOUS STROKE DAMAGE

What about treatment for strokes that happened months or years ago?

While logic would tell you otherwise, Giuseppina Benincasa-Feingold, MD, who has an HBOT center in Brewster, New York, has had success in treating these older injuries as well. The belief of those administering this HBOT is that the ischemic penumbra cells never die but remain idle, like Sleeping Beauty, waiting for something to revive them. While Dr. Whelan and others disagree, saying that the tissue cannot survive even days, to say nothing of months or years, there are a number of doctors who strongly support this belief. A pediatrician by training, Dr. Benincasa-Feingold became interested in HBOT when her then three-year-old daughter who has cerebral palsy took part in an HBOT study at New York-Cornell Medical Center. Her daughter showed rapid cognitive improvement, but when the study was completed, her mother had no place to take her for additional HBOT. She began to educate herself in the practice and today has a center in which she delivers HBOT to post-stroke patients as well as to children who have cerebral palsy or autism.

When I spoke with Dr. Benincasa-Feingold, she explained that although common sense would indicate that using HBOT so long after the fact wouldn't work, she has seen real improvement with stroke patients even six years post-stroke. Furthermore, she says that imaging techniques have shown the ischemic penumbra area of the brain light up when treated with hyperbaric oxygen many months and years later. Ideally, she agrees, treatment should take place immediately following the stroke, but she says that the possibility of improvement makes even later treatment worthwhile. She adds that it can't hurt (the only side effect seems to be popping in the ears, similar to take-off and landing in an airplane, and the main contraindication for treatment is for those on a few unusual medications) although it is admittedly costly and time consuming. Her protocol for stroke patients is 40 treatments given over four to eight weeks, and they run about $200 per treatment. As of now, insurance doesn't cover HBOT for stroke treatment.

To discuss HBOT post-stroke therapy with a doctor, or for information about practitioners nationwide, go to http://drcranton.com/hbo/find.htm

Algae As A Food?

Thought I would give you another strange food this week. One that is an excellent and important health building addition to your daily nutrient supplement necessary in this day of rampant diseases and illnesses. Not recognized as a tangible food that you put on your plate but none the less a very important and almost total food for your body!

Chlorella is a freshwater algae that contains such a wide variety of vitamins, minerals, enzymes and amino acids that it's considered to be a nearly perfect whole food. Chlorella is also the richest source of chlorophyll on earth the chemical that gives plants their green color and is an essential component in photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert light into chemical energy. It reportedly contains a very high amount of chlorophyll,

Animal studies have revealed that chlorella may stimulate the production of immune system factors like macrophages, leukocytes, and interferon. But in recent years, chlorella research has moved beyond animal trials with studies that have examined the therapeutic effects of chlorella on fibromyalgia. In two separate clinical trials conducted in Japan, researchers found that daily therapy with 10 grams of chlorella in tablet form and 100 milliliters of chlorella liquid extract brought improvements in pain, sleep, and anxiety - all common measures of fibromyalgia severity. (This may be one of the reasons why Life Transfusion Ionic Liquid Minerals is proving to help so many with pain.) Nutrients contained in Chlorella include vegetable proteins, fiber, vitamins, minerals and chlorophyll. Chlorophyll and its derivatives stimulate the formation of red blood cells, affect nutrition, and influence metabolism and respiration, to name just a few.

From heart disease to cancer, from failing vision to fatigue, an incredible yet affordable product in changing health.

One Doctor Allan Spreen, and M.D., says that chlorella is an "inexpensive and excellent" nutrient and easily digested.

According to Ralph Moss, Ph.D. renowned publisher of "The Cancer Chronicles," and cancer researcher chlorella has been shown to significantly prolong the lives of mice implanted with cancer cells. In one study, the benefits of chlorella were particularly strong when chlorella was given before the cancer was introduced, indicating a potential course of cancer prevention.

Dr. Moss also reports that more than 40 years ago researchers found chlorella to be effective in reversing the fatigue associated with chemotherapy. Chlorella has been shown to quickly restore white blood cells that are killed by chemotherapy, without affecting the potency of the chemo.

Chlorella is not known to cause side effects, but its use may be associated with mild temporary adverse reactions triggered by the detoxification of pesticides and heavy metals stored in the body, an may be experienced as a worsening for a few days until detoxification is completed. A good thing!

This study came to be because I couldn't understand what constituted my father's prostate cancer swelling to reduce so drastically fast making it easier for him to urinate in just a few days after starting his natural protocol. I found a few things that might do it but when I studied the components in the Life Transfusion Ionic Liquid Minerals I hit on what I consider the winning reason. Chlorella! Contained within the minerals as the most likely reason for the fast and drastic results!

Some studies suggest that Chlorella may be useful for lowering Blood Pressure in people afflicted with Hypertension. It is also said by some researchers that Chlorella (8 grams per day) can detoxify persons affected with Cadmium poisoning. Chlorella prolongs survival times in persons afflicted with various forms of Cancer - by boosting the Immune Response, i.e. not by directly killing Cancer cells. Chlorella prolongs survival times in persons afflicted with Breast Cancer and Leukemia - by boosting the Immune Response, i.e. not by directly killing Cancer cells. Recently - 1998), Chlorella (Chlorella vulgaris species) - has also been shown to contain a Glycoprotein that inhibits the metastasis of some forms of Cancer. Chlorella facilitates the production of Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor. Chlorella facilitates the production of Interferon Gamma indicated in treatment of infections and tumors. Chlorella facilitates the production of Interleukin 1 (Interleukin 1 alpha form). IL1 is an important risk factor prevention in heart disease. Also in a number of laboratory and animal research findings suggest that the algae may have some anticancer properties. One investigation concluded that a protein extract from one type of chlorella prevented the spread of cancer cells in mice. Another study in mice suggested that the extract reduced the side effects of chemotherapy treatment without affecting the potency of anticancer medications.

Chlorella was discovered in the late 19th century. Due to its high protein concentration and rapid growth rate, chlorella was investigated after World War II as a possible commercial food source that never really took off. In the 1950s, researchers first reported that chlorella prevented the development of liver disease in mice. A decade later, some investigators claimed that the algae decreased the side effects of chemotherapy and slowed the growth of some cancer cells. Most of the research has been conducted in Japan, where chlorella is a top-selling dietary supplement. Chlorella farms - closed systems that provide humans with food, water, and oxygen - have been established in the U.S., Japan, The Netherlands, Germany, and Israel.

Throughout its history on this planet, chlorella has survived because its tough outer shell protected its genetic integrity, and it is one of the most efficient foods on earth in using and concentrating sunshine, as shown by its high chlorophyll content and rapid reproduction. Chlorella is a natural, pure, whole food with all the materials to support life. Cracked cell wall Chlorella provides a tremendous source of concentrated nutrition.

I take chlorella in a liquid from that is included in my liquid mineral complex, which I take twice daily and may very well be one of the reasons my fibromyalgia has been controlled since starting that supplementation along with my herbal formulas in 1995 making for a strong pain treatment.

Begin your health builder program today and include this great food - Chlorella - in it. If you need help in where to start with your health building protocol contact me and along with the doctor we will figure it out with you.

Lena

No Conflict Resolution - Milk's Connection with High Insulin and Prostate Cancer
Loren Cordain, PhD
Colorado State University

What's the latest? Loren Cordain, PhD, professor, department of health and exercise science, Colorado State University, says the latest bad news for milk shows spiked insulin levels as well as increased prostate cancer risk.

A Paradoxical Insulin Response

Looking beyond calcium to milk's other effects on the human body, Dr. Cordain decided to investigate what happened in the bloodstreams of healthy student volunteers after they drank a glass of whole or skim milk. Amazingly, he discovered that a glass of milk (whether whole or skim) had the same impact on insulin levels as a slice of white bread. That is, it sent them soaring.

Most nutritionists target "white" carbohydrates as the enemy because of their high glycemic index (meaning that blood sugar or glucose quickly rises after you eat them). Foods with a high glycemic index (such as white bread, white flour, white rice and table sugar) produce a high insulin response. The increased insulin pumped into the blood in turn causes glucose to plummet, which leads to sudden, ravenous hunger.

To keep glucose and insulin on an even keel, nutritionists encourage us to eat foods with a low glycemic index, such as vegetables, fruit, seafood and lean meat. Until recently, milk also was included on this list. But Dr. Cordain notes that even though milk has a low glycemic index, it packs a paradoxically high insulin response, producing the same undesirable effects as eating a slice of white bread or a bag of M&Ms. In the long run, they all amount to the same thing: fatigue, extreme rise -- and then crash -- of blood sugar levels, fat around the midsection and perhaps an increase in the speed of aging.

Given the results of this study, Dr. Cordain warns that caution is warranted in recommending higher milk consumption for adults, especially those at risk for conditions associated with insulin resistance, such as diabetes, obesity, hypertension and coronary artery disease.

The Cancer Connection

Critics also warn that dairy products are associated with an increased risk for cancer, with some of the strongest evidence suggesting a link between a high dairy intake and prostate cancer. (Other research shows a possible connection with breast and ovarian cancers.) Even more ominously, results from several large clinical trials suggest that a high level of calcium is associated with not only a higher risk for prostate cancer, but a higher risk for prostate cancer to advance or spread (metastasize).

At first, researchers believed that the added risk stemmed from the high levels of saturated fat in dairy products. Further analysis strongly suggests that calcium itself is the problem. In a Harvard School of Public Health study, men who took more than 2,000 mg of calcium a day were nearly three times more likely to develop advanced prostate cancer than men who took less than 500 mg a day. There are questions that arise from the reported results of this study, since it is not clear why calcium levels for some men were so high, or what type of calcium was used. However, seeing the results as a warning is a safe bet.

The Diet We Evolved to Eat

No other mammal drinks milk from its mother after it is weaned, and no other species drinks milk from another species, notes Dr. Cordain. Humans simply are not designed to digest cow's milk. Babies have a hard time coping with cow's milk (a common cause of colic), and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that you do not give it to infants under the age of one.

So what should we eat? Less fatty meat and salty processed foods and more fresh veggies and fruit is a good formula to follow to keep your calcium stores in tip-top shape. As an added benefit, dark green leafy vegetables such as collard greens, turnip greens and broccoli are great sources of calcium. (For more on nondairy sources of calcium, see Daily Health News, May 22, 2003.) According to Dr. Cordain, increasing evidence suggests that the Paleolithic diet -- the diet to which our species is uniquely adapted, based on vegetables, fruits, fish and lean meat accompanied by plenty of fresh air and exercise -- may be the best bet for many to maintain robust health and prevent common Western ailments, such as heart disease and diabetes. Read more about the Paleo diet in an upcoming issue of Daily Health News.

LENA'S COMMENT: One of the first things that has to be given up when treating illness and disease with natural medicine is dairy products. Now you know why...