Boston Mayor declares public health emergency after flu outbreak

And, if you have not been taking your fat-soluble secosteroids regularly and you do get the flu, the fat soluble cannabinoids could save your life

In flu,what kills otherwise healthy young people is the so called "cytokine storm" when the immune system goes out of control, producting so many inflamatory proteins they damage the lungs and heart:
[link to www.nature.com]

Cannabis can help moderate that:
[link to ebm.rsmjournals.com]

Thus, it is highly likely that the consumption of marijuana and cannabinoids modulates the cytokine network


Don't smoke it, of course, consume it orally, or vape.

One word: Quarantine.

One more word: Contagion.

Vitamin D definitively kept flu from getting too severe for me.

Mopar, firstly you are very one-eyed on this topic,

Secondly vitamin D is very expensive so although ideal to take, it is perhaps unrealistic for everyone to take 10,000 ius a day. And most working people or city dwellers simply don't have the opportunity to sun bake an hour a day.

Thirdly penty of people have never had a flu shot but still get the flu and alot of them require antibiotics to help them clear secondary infections.

I have had the flu twice and had never had a flu shot prior to those events.

How do you explain the spread and casualty rate of the Spanish flu. No, please don't write me off as a shill, please answer that question first. A vaccine wasn't available yet millions of people died from that killer.

Mopar please, you must know that you have been at the forefront of the anti vaccine movement here on GLP for years and years and years. You have and continue to influence people not to take vaccines for anything.

In some cases we are talking about life/death or permanent disability as a result of getting the disease.

You may not have travelled much, you may not live in a big city, you may not even be American or anybody who lives the developed world......we simply don't know that much about you except you always promote no vaccines. We have to take a leap of faith that you are truly impartial in your opinion.

Everything I say is equally open to conjecture, but when you look at the failure of antibiotics which is so important in surviving an A- type flu I understand why taking the vaccine is being encouraged.

Are vaccines safe? I'm not a scientist so I don't know for sure about their long term effects on health, but I do know the flu has a pretty dramatic effect on your short term health, especially if you get a typeA.

Vitamin D is your friend....

Keep taking it, you dont want this one.

Plant cellulose vitamin D3 to be exact, 5,000 IU a day will prevent even the weakest immune system from contracting it

Makes no sense. Sun is the primary source for vitamin D3

I think I caught a flu a couple weeks ago. I couldn't tell cuz it was so mild, it didn't really interfere with my daily routine stuff except for a few days that I had no appetite and sweated my ass off while sleeping at nights for several days.

It was very mild compared to what I got in the past.

Vitamin D definitively kept flu from getting too severe for me.

Yeah, but the cytokine storm is usually seen in strains that are pretty much novel, example being the H1N1, or the strain that caused the Spanish flu pandemic.

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Boston Mayor Thomas Menino declared a public health emergency on Wednesday in the face of a growing flu outbreak that so far has killed 18 people in Massachusetts and infected ten times as many Boston residents as last year's outbreak.

Declaring emergencies won't solve this problem. We must ban the flu to solve this monumental problem.

10,000 IU daily of Vit. D3 will help ward off illness.

this is what I have been looking for and I cant find it at any walgreens store IT WORKS!!

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Walgreens Daytime Mucus Relief DM Liquid

How much for my 9 year old?

Indeed, it won't help a staph infection, so watch your symptoms:

[link to www.startribune.com]

On Dec. 30, another otherwise healthy teenager, Max Schwolert, 17, of Texas, died of flu complications at a St. Paul hospital. Schwolert, who had been visiting relatives in Wisconsin, apparently developed a staph infection along with the flu, and the combination accelerated rapidly, turning ever more deadly, family members said. He had not had a flu shot.

And if you think that yourself or your child may be developing complications such as staph, strep throat, pneumonia,etc. please make sure your physician pays attention.

Perhaps a thread should be made specifically taking a poll of who has had the flu this season, and where they live.


I live near Atlanta, Georgia, and I, along with my 3 year old son, mother, grandmother, and father have all had flu this season so far.

I haven't had flu in years before this, and this is the first time my son has had flu. It was pretty bad for all of us. Worse symptoms were respiratory and sinus.

First noticed a scratch in my throat, that continually got worse throughout the day. This particular flu hit FAST and HARD. Within 12 hours, I went from feeling a MINOR scratch in my throat, to having to stay home, rest in bed, and feeling like complete horse shit. Within 24 hours, I had ALL full blown flu symptoms, and my head felt like a hot air balloon.




I recovered faster than anyone in my family. I was also the ONLY person who took chopped up garlic cloves, in a spoon w/ olive oil. The trick is to chop the garlic cloves real fine, then smash them a bit with the spoon. The active alkaloids that fight the flu are released when the garlic is CRUSHED.

To prevent burning your throat, you put the garlic cloves in a spoon w/ olive oil, just enough to coat the garlic. Good luck fellas.

It makes sense when you are a nutritionist and have not had the flu or the vaccine in over 10 years

Even with sun exposure daily, our lack of proper nutrients in food, toxic water supply, and other factors still create D3 deficiencies...I'll stick to what works for me and a vast majority of my clients.

I had type A, it hit extremely fast.

I went into the dojang to teach class & felt a bit tired -- by the end of class I felt like I had been beaten with an iron pipe. Husband took me to the Er where I tested positive. The doctor told me that this flu is a mutated hybrid of swine/avian/human flu.

Some seriously nasty stuff. I am still tiring very easily & it has been nearly 3 weeks now.