- A study reported in the British Medical Journal reports
that simple and low cost measures are highly effective for preventing the
spread of viruses. And antivirals are best only for those least in
need of them, healthy adults.
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- http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/339/sep21_1/b3675
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- The increasingly resisted H1N1 vaccines of still unproven
efficacy and still untested safety must now compete with the proven efficacy
and absolute safety of cheap, flexible, universally available handwashing,
masks, and staying home.
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- The study by the Acute Respiratory Infections Group
at the Cochrane Collaboration in Rome published in the BMJ
now increases the risk of liability for any agency, state, location
or person imposing vaccines since the vaccines have not been proven effective
for stopping transmission of disease, have not been properly tested, do
not comply with federal law, and risk disease, disability and death.
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- Handwashing, masks and staying home are proven highly
effective and have zero risk of harm.
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- This definitive study calls into question all the draconian
"preparedness" laws on the books in states across the country,
put in under the guidance of Bush and Cheney, which eliminated traditional
home quarantining and masks as well public health options while
replacing them with unconstitutional mandatory vaccinations (with no requirement
for testing), forced diagnostic tests, forced taking of bodily
samples, forced unknown and untested treatments, forced unknown
and untested chemical decontamination, forcing people into detention and imposing
huge fines for those who failed to comply, and tracking people
and their vaccination histories with permanent RFID "bracelets."
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- The intense fear engendered by the WHO about the virus
is now easily answered by cheap, simple, safe measures which make the vaccine
campaign unnecessary, in addition to it being high-cost, safety-questioned,
efficacy-uncertain, increasingly-mandatory and internationally-resisted.
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- A study reported in the British Medical Journal reports
that simple and low cost measures are highly effective for preventing the
spread of viruses. And antivirals are best only for those least in
need of them, healthy adults.
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- http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/339/sep21_1/b3675
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- Meta-analysis of six case-control studies suggested
that physical measures are highly effective in preventing the spread
of severe acute respiratory syndrome:
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- handwashing more than 10 times daily (odds ratio 0.45,
95% confidenceinterval 0.36 to 0.57; number needed to treat=4, 95% confidence interval
3.65 to 5.52),
- wearing masks (0.32, 0.25 to 0.40; NNT=6, 4.54 to
8.03),
- wearing N95 masks (0.09, 0.03 to 0.30; NNT=3, 2.37
to 4.06),
- wearing gloves (0.43, 0.29 to 0.65; NNT=5, 4.15 to
15.41),
- wearing gowns (0.23, 0.14 to 0.37; NNT=5, 3.37 to7.12),
and
- handwashing, masks, gloves, and gowns combined (0.09, 0.02
to 0.35; NNT=3, 2.66 to 4.97).
- The combination was also effective in interrupting
the spread of influenza within households. The highest quality cluster
randomised trials suggested that spread of respiratory viruses can
be prevented by hygienic measures in younger children and within households.
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- Evidence that the more uncomfortable and expensive
N95 masks were superior to simple surgical masks was limited, but
they caused skin irritation.The incremental effect of adding virucidals
or antiseptics to normal handwashing to reduce respiratory disease
remains uncertain.
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- Global measures, such as screening at entry ports, were
not properly evaluated. Evidence was limited for social distancing being
effective, especially if related to risk of exposure-that is, the
higher the risk the longer the distancing period.
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- Conclusion Routine long term implementation of some
of the measures to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses
might be difficult. However, many simple and low cost interventions reduce
the transmission of epidemic respiratory viruses. More resources should
be invested into studying which physical interventions are the most
effective, flexible, and cost effective means of minimising the impact
of acute respiratory tract infections.
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- http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/world/155064/hand-
- washing-masks-quarantine-keep-viruses-at-bay
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- "Vaccines work best in those who are universally
considered least to need them -- namely, healthy adults. Antivirals
may be harmful and their benefits depend on the identification of the agent,"
it said.
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- "But physical interventions are effective, safe,
flexible, universally applicable and relatively cheap."
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- Simple Measures Keep Viruses at Bay
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- Simple, low-cost measures such as hand-washing, wearing
masks, and quarantining infected patients provide a good shield against
the spread of flu and other respiratory viruses, says a new study.
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- Doctors led by Tom Jefferson, a professor in the Acute
Respiratory Infections Group at the Cochrane Collaboration in Rome, carried
out an overview of 59 published trials into protective measures against
these microbes.
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- The pathogens included the ordinary cold virus, the Severe
Acute Respiratory Syndrome virus, and the influenza virus, but not the
current H1N1 pandemic strain.
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- The trials had widely ranging formats but essentially
looked at the number of people who were infected when protective measures
were implemented, as compared to the number who fell sick when there was
no such protection.
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- Vaccines and antiviral drugs were not included in these
studies.
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- In hospital settings, regular hand-washing more than
10 times a day and the use of masks, gloves, and surgical gowns were effective
against spreading respiratory virus, but were especially useful when combined,
according to the paper.
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- Hygiene measures in the home, targeted particularly at
younger children, also helped prevent transmission.
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- "Perhaps this is because younger children are least
capable of hygienic behavior and have longer-lived infections and greater
social contact, thereby acting as portals of infection into the household,"
the authors said.
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- Two studies found that isolating potentially infected
individuals was also effective.
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- But the review uncovered only limited evidence that much-touted
"N95" surgical masks are better than simple face masks.
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- N95 masks are more uncomfortable and expensive, and they
can cause skin irritation, it found.
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- "Physical interventions are effective, safe, flexible,
universally applicable, and relatively cheap," the team said.
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- Copyright AFP
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