WHO: Bird flu bigger challenge than AIDS?

Discussion in 'Politics' started by jzlucas, Mar 6, 2006.

  1. If this is true, billions of dollars will be wasted and millions of people will die from something that can be cured by the proper dose of vitamin C.

    http://www.orthomed.com/bird.htm

    I know I will survive it.
     
    #11     Mar 6, 2006
  2. Skimming off the top of aid programs, diversion of resources, deliberate and proactive misinformation/religious rhetoric, that sort of thing. Particularly big in africa, but it applies elsewhere.
     
    #12     Mar 6, 2006
  3. Oh, you were referring to African governments... got ya.
     
    #13     Mar 6, 2006
  4. The whole "vitamin C mega-dose can cure stuff" is a myth, isn't it?
     
    #14     Mar 6, 2006
  5. No, Linus Pauling, the only solo two time Nobel laureate studied and promoted it for about the last 30 years of his life. I have personally used it myself also. Here are more references:

    http://www.seanet.com/~alexs/ascorbate/
     
    #15     Mar 6, 2006
  6. I take vitamin C myself and drink oj... my ailments aren't healed though!!! I'll read through the link... thanks.
     
    #16     Mar 6, 2006
  7. #17     Mar 6, 2006
  8. Bird-freaking-flu my arse.

    Diarrhea kills 6 million people per year. You don't see the media shiteing themselves (pun intended) over that...

    Live your lives....kill your telly.
     
    #18     Mar 6, 2006
  9. Im on it!
     
    #19     Mar 6, 2006
  10. Well, you don't want bird flu killing 6 million more people, do you?
     
    #20     Mar 6, 2006