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Garlic Infection Fighter and Virus Killer Garlic kills germs!!! In 1944, chemist C. Cavallito identified the stinky compound in garlic, called allicin, and demonstrated that it was a highly effective antibiotic. Other tests have confirmed that garlic is an even more powerful germ-killer than either penicillin or tetracycline. The list of microbes that garlic can slay includes botulism, tuberculosis, diarrhea, staph, dysentery, pneumonia, sepsis and typhoid. Reports list 72 separate bugs garlic can bump off; bacteria, yeast, fungus, parasites and protozoa all yield to garlic.

Cooking neutralizes allicin, so you need raw garlic for its antibiotic properties. Many doctors will tell you that a compress of mashed garlic can keep cuts and wounds clean and free of infection. There are some reports that applying garlic directly to skin cancers makes the tumor disappear within weeks.

The most significant recent discovery is that garlic also kills viruses. This means that the next time you feel a cold or flu coming on, add a few cloves of raw garlic to your chicken soup and you'll not only feel better for a while, you'll beat the illness outright. " If you do it early enough, you may not even get sick," says Dr. J. North, chief of microbiology at Bringham Young University. Now I personally eat a clove of garlic at the first indication of a sore throat or the sniffles or just when I feel I may be getting sick. I'll eat it for about three days, and I haven't been down with the cold or flu in about six years. Sometimes it may feel the virus is trying to get a hold on me but it never really gets a grip on me. And yes I believe it's all due to the Stinkin Rose.

Dr. North's data shows garlic extract kills with near 100 percent effectiveness; human rhinovirus which causes colds, parainfluenza3, a common flu and respiratory virus, herpes simplex1, which causes fever blisters, herpes simplex2 responsible for genital herpes. In addition, garlic has killed the poliovirus with 90 percent effectiveness and proven capable of tackling the deadly HIV virus. Once scientists identify the active virus-killing chemical in garlic, they may be able to make a concentrated pill for treating these very serious ailments.

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Health officials in the US state of Texas confirmed that at least 20 people have died from flu, mostly H1N1 influenza, the US media reported. The tally was made by health departments in Dallas County, Denton County and Tarrant County, all in north Texas, local media KHOU reported. Hospitals confirm eight deaths in Dallas County, and another nine positive flu cases have been logged by the medical examiner's office. Denton County reported two deaths. Tarrant County has had one death linked to the flu. All of the Dallas victims were adults while a child was among the two victims in Denton. Hospitals across north Texas have been seeing a rapidly" increasing number of patients with flu-related cases, according to the report. Health officials are advising people to take vaccines and keeping a close eye on the flu cases. Adult flu-related deaths are being tracked locally for the first time in Dallas. Previously, only pediatric flu deaths were reported to local, state and federal authorities. In Houston, Texas' largest city, at least 13 people have died from H1N1 virus as of late December. The Lone Star State issued a state wide influenza health alert. Texas, Alabama, Louisiana and New York remain hotbeds for flu. The biggest concern is the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, which swept through many countries previously. The flu pandemic in the United States began in the spring of 2009.--Xinhua

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Child among 20 dead in Texas as killer swine flu virus spreads

Jan 06, 2014

Mexico is considered one of the leading countries in papaya productions, but its crops are usually affected by the virus of the ringed spot, which leaves ring marks in the skin of the fruit and causes softening of the papaya, where fungi start to digest it. This is why the Center of Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (Cinvestav) designed a method capable of identifying the pathogens in just a day, stopping the propagation inside the crop.

The system developed by Laura Silva Rosales and her team, part of the Laboratory of Virus-Plant Interactions, is comprised of plastic tubes filled with reactive, called detection cartridges. It's only necessary to deposit one of them in a sample of a leaf to determine, in one day, if it's infected by one or two of the viruses that usually attack papaya.

One of the main pathogens is the PRSV, or virus of the ringed spot of the papaya, although the crop is also affected by the PapMV or mosaic virus, which produces deformations or lesions in the leaves.

Silva Rosales says that the viral problem not only affects Mexico, but all the countries where papaya is cultivated. "Some infections are not dangerous, but if the temperature rises and, at the same time, there exists a precise combination of viral strains with plant genes, the infection goes into necrosis."

She adds that the developed cartridge is for laboratory use only, which implies shipping a sampling of leaves to the lab, which is not always practical for producers. Hence, Silva Rosales and her team are working in a field device that would give test results in just an hour.

"It is still in an experimental phase, and although the first tests have been effective, currently it gives results in two hours."

With this kit, the producer would only have to macerate a leaf of the plant, place it in the cartridge, add the reactive substance and wait for the results. The resulting color indicates negative or positive presence of one or both viruses.

Although the Mexican papaya producers have experts that can identify the presence of the viruses visually, they require a scientific backup and lab test that would allow them to know which plants are infected. "The visual detection can have a margin of error up to 20 percent," the researcher says.

Papaya crop is considered of great importance to Mexico, given that more than 80 per cent of the production is exported to the United States and, according to the Mexican Association Industry of Plant Sanitation (AMIFAC), Europe and Asia are possible markets for 2014.

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Mexican technology saves papaya production by detecting virus

FEWER dengue fever cases and deaths were reported in Cebu City in 2013, but last year saw a significant increase in the number of pneumonia cases that resulted in deaths.

Records of the Cebu City Health Department showed that the number of pneumonia cases last year increased by 165 percent, from only 1,378 in 2012 to 3,658 in 2013.

The number of deaths caused by pneumonia also rose from 16 in 2012 to 64 deaths last year, or an increase of 300 percent.

In Cebu City, pneumonia topped the list of communicable diseases with the most number of deaths, followed by diarrhea, meningitis and dengue.

Assistant City Epidemiologist Durinda Macasocol said pneumonia is common among the elderly who have other illnesses and are too weak.

Although there are free pneumonia vaccines provided, perhaps some elderly did not have access to it thats why they succumbed to pneumonia. Hopefully this year we can get more vaccines from the Department of Health, she told Sun.Star Cebu.

Other fatal diseases

The World Health Organization lists pneumonia as the leading cause of death among children worldwide. It is a form of acute respiratory infection that affects the lungs, making breathing difficult.

Macasocol said pneumonia can be prevented by getting vaccinated and having adequate nutrition.

Among the communicable diseases monitored by the City Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit (Cesu), diarrhea had the second highest number of deaths in 2013 with 23, followed by meningitis with six deaths and dengue fever with five deaths.

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Pneumonia no. 1 killer last year

Wisconsins declining hog industry got another dose of bad news when a federal report showed that the states hog and pig inventory was reduced by 15,000 head in 2013.

The December hog report by the National Agricultural Statistics Service that was released last Friday showed that the state houses 305,000 hogs, the lowest count for the past 150 years.

The state inventory has declined 32.2 percent since 2007, according to NASS data.

Its an uphill struggle, said Dave Wachter, Grant County UW-Extensions dairy and livestock agent, who co-authored a report last year on the state hog industry.

Besides showing the 5 percent decline in total hogs from 2012, the NASS report showed that breeding hogs declined 15 percent since 2012 and market hogs declined 3 percent.

Wisconsins hog farm numbers were the worst among Midwest states that included Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan and Minnesota.

The increasing cost of feed has been a killer to the state hog industry, Wachter said.

He also said that it takes a substantial investment to start, or keep, a hog farm going in a state that has a lack of infrastructure such as slaughterhouses, specialized veterinary care and suppliers.

Most people dont want to make that investment. And lets face it: People dont want them as neighbors, Wachter said.

The national inventory of hogs and pigs was down 1 percent from December 2012 and 2 percent from September 2012. That is a clear sign that the highly infectious Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus is affecting farms across the country, an industry expert said.

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State hog numbers continue to plummet