I bet you are a believer in aliens also. I know I am a believer. On a side note I remember watching a story on tv of a man who lived isolated in the woods of Maine in a homemade tent for many years and after being found he reported never getting sick even throughout the brutal winters. However when the majority of people are in close contact this is interesting to consider that the virus spreads more easily in colder drier air!
Some comments disagree with this because in Florida they apparently have a bad flu season. In that scenario, the more logical assumption is that it has a lot to do with not being in contact with other people. But even if infected from physical contact, the virus can only survive so long on surfaces outside the body. Your mother was right. The warmer you are, the less able a virus will enter your body. I assure you the Flu thoroughly enjoys playing in your nice warm Give it a pathway and it will happily slip in there and have a party.
If you come in contact with just ONE viable specimen that came from God knows where, then you get infected. It hitches a ride with a carrier and you pick it up because you thought you were safe in the Summer.
Sorry, but the Flu is active all year long. TimS is the assumption that because no true absolute recovery occurs for all flu infected persons there is a perpetual spread of flu?
I read this article because it seemed to me that essentially there should be a time that the flu is nonexistent. There should be a day where everyone in any given year has either had, been immune to, or not had the flu.
On that day, the flu should cease to exist. The most insightful information in the article for me was not fully explored. That global travel does not allow there to be a day like that because some group of people in the opposite hemisphere are experiencing a flu outbreak and they spread it.
It certainly seems obvious to me based on this article and the relatively short period for viral viability that if we restricted travel for people experiencing flu or its symptoms for the viability it would die out. No one can say its too hard to do now. For instance, if this research is true and population is not being manipulated then there should not be any more flu.
It should literally die out. If a person is sick with flu somehow at the end of this global quarantine period, then they should be treated with the same care level of PPE for hazmat as COVID Yet none of those aforementioned people got sick at all.
I have never in my life had a flu shot and the last time i had flu before was so long ago i cannot tell you—probably 15 or more years. Even the article is clear that the tests were contradictory and therefore inconclusive, needing further research. Yet Timmy here has all the answers. Regarding Florida virus deaths in warm, moist weather. But also consider the much older population of older retirees. Many have less effective or compromised immune systems.
To tims. Thus there is year round infection. There is also viral genetic change constantly occurring so that even though you got the flu this year, you may get it next year as your immune system may not recognize it. You are probably not a virologist, immunologist or even a doctor for that matter. Not all doctors agree on theories. Almost every single major breakthrough in Medicine or Science has not come from the people who thought exactly like everyone else and followed the herd.
It came from those who defied long-held beliefs and dared to oppose popular opinion. Most were thought of as crazy. Yet here we are…..
Intellectual snobbery has held society back from a lot of great discoveries and advancements. I have wondered if UVB tends to destroy cold and flu viruses. Near sea level UVB becomes significant when the sun is more than about 45 degrees above the horizon. The coment bellow totally killed yours. In the past do you also believe the spanish government created influenza? First sentence. Virus starts with and emanates comes from other than humans. Usually, animals or mutations of other less harmful viruses Populace.
The rest of your belief is typical modern day paranoia with no basis in facts. For example, this secret organization for population control must have a reduced number in mind. So, why is the world population still increasing despite many, many decades of flu of all types? Are they based in Area 51 or Atlantis? Way for, not of. Oh, the flu grows far better in cold, dry weather. Read some actual science while drinking down a zinc pill with some orange juice.
Anyway , you can kill this virus with heat. Conquering Covid Also be taking vitamin C and Zinc. Eat good, lots of veggies, fruit. Keep immune system up. Follow all the other things, washing hands etc. My grandmother who was part native American would wrap us in a wool blanket after giving us a hot toddy and mineral oil when we got the flu or pneumonia. We would be over it in a day or two. Disease starts in the gut.
Keep those intestines in good shape. Native Americans died just like all the rest of us, only usually at a younger age. Some survived for a whIle but all ultimately died. Just like anyone else. What about parts of the world where the flu is much more common than the rest of the world?
Thank you very much. You might want to take a look at this interactive map from the CDC. You can review the levels of reported flu cases regionally over several seasons. A quick review suggested to me that all of California is generally at a lower incidence level than the rest of the US.
I know this is long past when you sent it, but it makes sense when southern Californians can be outside more with more open air. Thank you for sounding intelligent and guiding people towards facts!
First of all, during winter, the sunlight strikes higher latitudes at a much greater angle of incidence. Imagine that you are standing on the equator at noon on the spring or fall equinox.
Imagine that the sunlight falling on you is a long tube of one foot radius connecting you to the surface of the Sun. The sunlight comes straight down, and hits the ground and shines on an area of pi square feet.
The energy is very concentrated. All of this assumes that you are spending just as much time outside, which of course is generally not true. In the summer your typical cubicle worker is eager to spend the weekend outside if the weather is nice. Plus, in the winter, even if you are outside, you are bundled up. In winter we wear a lot more clothing and absorb far less sun light on our person.
I think the changes in clothing may have a larger affect than the reduced hours of sunlight. This research was only done on the flu virus, so cold viruses might thrive in different conditions. In our state Queensland, Australia , the tropical part Cairns, Townsville etc.
There is certainly no shortage of ultraviolet light in Cairns in the Winter, and the temperature rarely falls below 20C, even at night during the day.
Seems to me there must be some other explanation than climate factors temperature or humidity. From the figures, it looks like the humidity decides the transmission of the virus. Brisbane in my impression is not so humid enough, although not cold. In most area, the hotter, the more humid, but not the case for Brisbane. But every time I get a cold, I immediately know as I feel a certain tickle sensation in one of my nostrils that is different to anything else.
Can you tell me why this might work. Unfortunately this last time I felt a slight sore throat and managed to fight it completely off of me…late in the 2nd successful day of having zero symptoms, I suddenly picked it up again prob from the air my husband is sick as well. Although I might agree with you that the flu vaccine is a waste of time and money I might not agree for the same reasons.
The flu that devastated the world was before flu vaccines. Another factor was the war. In peace time there would have been better nutrition and perhaps quarantines if there were major outbreaks of illness.
It caused the body to overly attack it until it burned itself out. Older and younger have weaker immunity. I too never have heard so many flu problems when i was a kid, NEVER Its getting worse as they go, big phama wanting to make sure we all get flu shots and put money in their overloaded pockets!! Not to mention the sale of Tamiflu I hate them all.
Flu has killed a lot of people long before we had flu shots though. So then we have multiple types of flus gong around at the same time. I refuse to get flu shots. I have gotten the flu maybe twice in my life, the first as a child and the latest I caught from my husband who works in a large building with tons of exposure to these germs flying about. I honestly think the flu shot is probably doing more harm than good. This season we have heard of not just the elderly, very young and immune compromised being killed by these nasty viruses, but healthy young adults as well.
One Dr said he had never seen a virus replicate so fast! It killed a fairly young healthy woman within , I believe it was hours. She was not an isolated case. It does seem to be getting much worse. I do tend to get the flu every time I get a flu shot. I sometimes get a cold and its in the winter usually.
I have had a cold in the fall or spring. I have not had one in the summer. Flu shots are BS. We are supposed to build immunities to these viruses. I have not had the flu in over 20 years and that was when I stopped getting the shot. I probably only had the flu shot 3 times in my life. I got it a few times when a doctor told me that it was important. No more, no way.
No one in my household gets it and none of us get the flu. Well, that settles it, then. Scheetz has spoken. Anecdotal evidence by The Ms. Jennifer Scheetz? Etch it in stone! Your sacrcastic comment was uncalled for. She was only trying to help expose the truth about the flu shots! I too have never had the flu shot in a very long time, and it did not harm me one bit! I actually agree with her. The flu shot gives a person the virus in a small dose with the intent of building immunity.
The problem is that they can guarantee that it will be the SAME flu going around that immunities protects against. This season there were multiple types of flu, including a version that transmits between humans and animals.
You do realize that science and scientists are not perfect in their understanding right? And actually, peoples experience tell us that many people get full blown cases of flu FROM taking the flu shot. And btw, regardless of your opinion, there is no call for being an ass just because you disagree with someone.
A lot of people have died. This is amount reported in the DFW area. Please get your facts straight. Please educate yourself on the influenza vaccine before you blindly jump on a bandwagon preventing anyone and everyone who disagrees with you the autonomy of declining to have what they view as poison shot into their bodies.
For whom? Never fails. Such as recently in California where they may have lower humidity but relatively warm temperatures. The South also has big out breaks in Florida where you have higher humidity and temperatures. Maybe as with other living species bacteria as we know it can adapt and survive in all climates even in space as we have now discovered.
This may also be a reason why flu shots can be varied significantly in their effectiveness. I think the better solution is to prevent spread by immediately isolating people who have signs of the flu. Even someone with the flu that shows up for work or school can spread the bacteria quickly. Too many trying to tough it out and stay working or parents pushing sick kids out the door is contributing to the spread.
I agree! I think you missed the last California law on that one. I hate to say it, but it would probably be best if the vast majority of people worked from home in winter — I know, not really feasible.
This is from the CDC. People, please read facts not conspiracy theories!! However, some of the theories posted here are just completely ridiculous. Can a flu vaccine give you the flu? No, flu vaccines cannot cause flu illness. Flu vaccines given with a needle i. This is the case for recombinant influenza vaccines. This is the truth. They prefer a load of rubbish about conspiracy theories etc. Not true. Everyone I know that got that so called flu shot became extremely sick with the flu.
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