Measles — Everything You Need to Know About This Infection

Measles — Everything You Need to Know About This Infection from Mercola If you have heard about measles, you might be wondering what you should be aware of regarding this disease. Keep reading to learn about measles, how this viral infection spreads, its symptoms and how you can help prevent and treat it. Basic Facts About Measles Also called rubeola, measles is a highly contagious, acute viral infection of the respiratory system. It’s transmitted via respiratory droplets (infected saliva or mucus) in the air, spreading easily from person to person…

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Autism Rates Increasing Fastest Among Black, Hispanic Youth

Autism Rates Increasing Fastest Among Black, Hispanic Youth from Natural Blaze Autism rates among racial minorities in the United States have increased by double digits in recent years, with black rates now exceeding those of whites in most states and Hispanic rates growing faster than any other group, according to new University of Colorado Boulder research. The study, published this month in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, also found that prevalence of autism among white youth is ticking up again, after flattening in the mid-2000s. While some of…

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What is vaccine shedding?

What is vaccine shedding? by Dr. Joseph Mercola for Mercola When you’re infected with a virus that causes an illness, that virus is shed in your saliva and other bodily fluids, and sometimes also via skin lesions. This means that a person who comes into direct contact with the shed virus may also become infected. The same holds true for live attenuated viral vaccines. While inactivated vaccines use a killed version of the pathogen, live viral vaccines use a weakened (or attenuated) version of the virus. Typically, the live virus used…

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They don’t work: Conventional meds for depression and mental disorders treat symptoms, not cause

They don’t work: Conventional meds for depression and mental disorders treat symptoms, not cause by: Isabelle Z. for Natural News Have you ever wondered why so many people who take antidepressants continue to be depressed? The truth is that like many other drugs for mental disorders, they are not the cures that many people believe them to be. They might address symptoms, but they don’t really do much about the cause of depression – and therein lies an important distinction. In the Waking Times, author Tracy Kolenchuk looks at the logic of…

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The Historical Facts on Measles and the Measles Vaccine Censored by Corporate Media

The Historical Facts on Measles and the Measles Vaccine Censored by Corporate Media by Erin Elizabeth for Health Nut News By Barbara Loe Fisher National Vaccine Information Center This year, the fear mongering about measles has reached epidemic proportions in America. A day doesn’t go by without media outlets publishing angry articles and editorials spewing hatred toward a tiny minority of parents with unvaccinated children, who are being blamed for measles outbreaks. The remedy is always a call to track down, persecute and punish any parent whose child is not vaccinated. Some…

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Prescription drugs linked to increased dementia risk

Prescription drugs linked to increased dementia risk from Mercola While the link between anticholinergic drugs and an increased risk of dementia isn’t new, researchers have now pinpointed certain classes of drugs where the link is the strongest. In a study published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers wrote “there was nearly a 50% increased odds of dementia” associated with a total anticholinergic exposure of more than 1,095 daily doses over a time period of 10 years. To put that into perspective, it’s the equivalent of an older adult taking a strong…

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Cost Of Prescription Drugs Increases 9.5% Annually, Coordinated By Industry

Cost Of Prescription Drugs Increases 9.5% Annually, Coordinated By Industry from Natural Blaze Scripps Research analyzed pharmacy insurance claims from over 35 million Americans, finding ‘continual, marked, annual increases’ of popular brand-name drugs, with price jumps often timed with competitors. After reviewing tens of millions of insurance claims for the country’s 49 most popular brand-name prescription drugs, a team from Scripps Research Translational Institute found that net prices rose by a median of 76 percent from January 2012 through December 2017—with most products going up once or twice per year. The substantial price increases…

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Prescription for violence: The corresponding rise of antidepressants, SSRIs & mass shootings

Prescription for violence: The corresponding rise of antidepressants, SSRIs & mass shootings from Ammo According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), a mass murder occurs when at least four people are murdered, not including the shooter, over a relatively short period of time during a single incident. Over the last 30 years, the United States has seen a significant increase in mass shootings, which are becoming more frequent and more deadly. (Article republished from Ammo.com) Seemingly every time a mass shooting occurs, whether it’s at a synagogue in Pittsburgh or a nightclub in Orlando, the anti-gun media…

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44 STATES SUE PHARMA GIANTS OVER ‘MULTI-YEAR CONSPIRACY’ TO HIKE DRUG PRICES BY 1,000%

44 STATES SUE PHARMA GIANTS OVER ‘MULTI-YEAR CONSPIRACY’ TO HIKE DRUG PRICES BY 1,000% by Jake Johnson for Common Dreams A far-reaching lawsuit filed Friday by the attorneys general of more than 40 states accused some of the nation’s largest generic drug manufacturers of conspiring to inflate prices, in some cases by over 1,000 percent. “We have hard evidence that shows the generic drug industry perpetrated a multi-billion dollar fraud on the American people,” Connecticut Attorney General William Tong, whose state led the probe into the companies’ practices, said in…

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Man paralyzed by vaccine tells story of Senator Pan’s corruption; former Merck salesman reveals his kids are unvaccinated

Man paralyzed by vaccine tells story of Senator Pan’s corruption; former Merck salesman reveals his kids are unvaccinated by Erin Elizabeth for Health Nut News As Natural News readers are well aware, Americans who dare to oppose mandatory vaccination for any reason, including that they don’t believe that all vaccines are safe, are often ridiculed, marginalized and minimized by Big Pharma vaccine pushers and the mainstream medical community. One of the things that they most often insist on is that “vaccines are safe” and that there is no reason to fear…

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