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      "body": "<html>\n<p><img src=\"https://s18.postimg.cc/wc21101ix/not.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\"/></p>\n<p>This year’s flu season has been particularly dangerous, resulting in &nbsp;more hospitalizations and fatalities than those of recent years, &nbsp;according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Many people &nbsp;with the illness have reached for Tamiflu; however, reports of serious &nbsp;neuropsychiatric side effects, such as hallucinations, are raising &nbsp;concerns about its safety.</p>\n<p>Tamiflu, known as oseltamivir, and &nbsp;Relenza, known as zanamivir, are antiviral agents purported to reduce &nbsp;flu symptoms. Package labeling on Tamiflu states that it increases the &nbsp;risk of confusion and abnormal behavior, especially in children. Parents &nbsp;of children and teenagers who take the drugs are advised to monitor &nbsp;them closely.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;<img src=\"https://s18.postimg.cc/mer07ywi1/danger.jpg\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\"/></p>\n<h2>Tamiflu’s Neurotoxicity</h2>\n<p>The two antiviral drugs work by &nbsp;inhibiting an enzyme called neuraminidase. This mechanism of action &nbsp;poses a problem because the enzyme it blocks is essential for normal brain functioning; therefore, it results in neurotoxicity.</p>\n<p>News &nbsp;outlets have related frightening stories of Tamiflu’s adverse effects &nbsp;that, in addition to hallucinations, include seizures, delusions, mood swings, &nbsp;memory deterioration and delirium. Tragically, the reports include &nbsp;bizarre accounts of children leaping out of two-story windows, rushing &nbsp;out into traffic, and running around the house because of a belief that &nbsp;they’re being chased. Moreover, deaths have been associated with the &nbsp;drug, some of which have been attributed to suicides.</p>\n<p>While &nbsp;incidences of neuropsychiatric side effects are supposed to be rare, &nbsp;they’ve occurred often enough to be very troubling: since 2009, the Food &nbsp;and Drug Administration has received notifications of 559 cases of &nbsp;hallucinations from Tamiflu.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s18.postimg.cc/x1ktdf789/side.jpg\" width=\"311\" height=\"162\"/>&nbsp;</p>\n<h2>Cochrane Review of Tamiflu</h2>\n<p>Several years ago, an &nbsp;international team of researchers expanded a project called the Cochrane &nbsp;Review, which investigated the safety and efficacy of Tamiflu. The &nbsp;original report hadn’t included a review of 160,000 pages of undisclosed &nbsp;documents. Therefore, to get a complete picture of the evidence, the &nbsp;Cochrane Collaboration filed a Freedom of Information lawsuit to obtain &nbsp;the hidden documents from Tamiflu studies. In their final review issued &nbsp;in 2014, the researchers said that the harmful effects of the drug &nbsp;hadn’t been fully reported. The final review’s conclusion was that the &nbsp;benefits of Tamiflu didn’t seem to outweigh the risks, according to &nbsp;natural health practitioner Dr. Joseph Mercola.</p>\n<p>Harlan Krunholz, M.D., reporting on the Cochrane Review in <em>Forbes</em>, &nbsp;said, “The manufacturer of the drug sponsored all the trials and the &nbsp;reviewers found evidence of publication and reporting biases.” The &nbsp;doctor also expressed surprise that no placebo-controlled trials had &nbsp;been conducted that had been funded by an independent source.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;<img src=\"https://s18.postimg.cc/8xu1p6ehl/flu.jpg\" width=\"310\" height=\"162\"/></p>\n<h2>Advice on Staying Well in Flu Season</h2>\n<p>No one should order &nbsp;Tamiflu from the internet or take it unless their doctor has prescribed &nbsp;it without being prodded. Mercola advocates avoiding the flu through &nbsp;building your immunity, primarily by eating a nutritious diet devoid of &nbsp;sugar, refined grains and processed food. He recommends including &nbsp;fermented foods in the diet, as well as taking immune system boosters of &nbsp;garlic and oil of oregano.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Washing &nbsp;the hands regularly with soap and water, along with hygienic measures &nbsp;like covering the mouth when coughing are also advisable, he adds.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>by Mary West</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.liveinthenow.com/article/tamiflu-side-effects-reports-hallucinations-abound\">http://www.liveinthenow.com/article/tamiflu-side-effects-reports-hallucinations-abound</a></p>\n</html>",
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      "body": "<html>\n<p><img src=\"https://s18.postimg.cc/kztiq247t/toxic.jpg\" width=\"251\" height=\"201\"/></p>\n<p>A new report has found that 75 percent of the world’s honey contains pesticides called neonicotinoids &nbsp;or neonics. The authors concluded that these agents, which are &nbsp;purported to protect crops from vermin, have a harmful effect on the &nbsp;insects that pollinate one-third of our food supply. It’s time to stop &nbsp;the mass-scale use of the chemicals.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>In the study published in the journal <em>Science</em>, Edward Mitchell, &nbsp;a biology professor at the University of Neuchatel in Switzerland, led a &nbsp;research team in collecting honey samples from six continents between &nbsp;2012 and 2016. Of the 198 samples they tested for the five primary types &nbsp;of neonics, at least one type was found in 86 percent from North &nbsp;America, 80 percent from Asia, 79 percent from Europe, 73 percent from &nbsp;Africa, 71 percent from Australia and 57 percent from South America. &nbsp;Almost half of the samples contained more than one neonic, and 10 &nbsp;percent contained four or five.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;<img src=\"https://s18.postimg.cc/a08beh0y1/neo.jpg\" width=\"296\" height=\"170\"/></p>\n<h2>How Do Neonics Affect Bees?</h2>\n<p>The authors expressed serious &nbsp;concern about the impact of neonics on bees. “Although the impact of the &nbsp;measured concentrations of neonicotinoids in honey on vertebrates, &nbsp;including humans, is considered negligible, a significant detrimental &nbsp;effect on bees is likely for a substantial proportion of the analyzed &nbsp;samples, as adult bees rely on honey for food, including during periods &nbsp;of overwintering or seasons without blossoming flowers,” they said.</p>\n<p>“The &nbsp;increasingly documented sublethal effects of neonicotinoid pesticides &nbsp;at environmentally relevant concentrations on bees and other nontarget &nbsp;organisms include growth disorders, reduced efficiency of the immune &nbsp;system, neurological and cognitive disorders, respiratory and &nbsp;reproductive function, queen survival, foraging efficiency, and homing &nbsp;capacity at concentrations as low as 0.10 ng/g,” they added.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;<img src=\"https://s18.postimg.cc/a08behvt5/bees.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\"/></p>\n<h2>How Do Neonics Affect Humans?</h2>\n<p>Researchers in the study didn’t &nbsp;seem worried about the possibility of adverse health effects on humans &nbsp;resulting from the consumption of neonic-laced honey. However, not &nbsp;everyone is convinced that long-term consumption of small amounts of the &nbsp;chemical is safe. People can ingest neonics from the crops sprayed with the pesticide &nbsp;as well as honey. According to Dave Goulson, Professor of Biology at &nbsp;the University of Sussex,&nbsp;the chronic effects aren’t known, reports <em>Daily Mail</em>.</p>\n<p>“Beyond &nbsp;doubt…anyone regularly eating honey is likely to be getting a small &nbsp;dose of mixed neurotoxins,” he said. “In terms of acute toxicity, this &nbsp;certainly won’t kill them and is unlikely to do measurable harm. What we &nbsp;don’t know is whether there are long-term, chronic effects from &nbsp;life-time exposure to a cocktail of these and other pesticides in our &nbsp;honey and most other foods.” &nbsp;</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s18.postimg.cc/765612w7t/ddt.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"252\"/>&nbsp;</p>\n<h2>Risks of Neonics Outweigh Benefits</h2>\n<p>Do we really need neonics? <em>EcoWatch</em> &nbsp;reports that the latest research shows the class of pesticides provide &nbsp;little or no benefit for crop production. Neonics reduce soil quality, &nbsp;harm the environment and don’t dependably lower the risk of farmers’ &nbsp;financial risk, the publication contends.</p>\n<p>Since the risks outweigh &nbsp;the benefits, especially for the critically needed bee population, &nbsp;neonics should be banned. In 2013, the E.U. imposed a temporary ban on &nbsp;three neonics on bee-attractive crops, and the agency is considering &nbsp;extending the moratorium. In addition, Canada’s Pesticide Management &nbsp;Regulatory Agency has proposed phasing out one neonic in 2021. &nbsp;Conversely, North American oversight agencies haven’t recognized the &nbsp;environmental threat posed by the chemicals and the necessity of &nbsp;preventing further harm. It’s best to buy organic fruits, vegetables, grains and honey to minimize exposure to pesticides.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>By Mary West</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.liveinthenow.com/article/75-worlds-honey-contains-harmful-pesticides\">http://www.liveinthenow.com/article/75-worlds-honey-contains-harmful-pesticides</a></p>\n</html>",
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