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Bird Flu So far the virus seems able to be passed to people by birds but not easily from one human to another. But if, as experts fear, it mutates into an easily transmittable human form, there are predictions of a massive flu pandemic, which could kill hundreds of thousands across the world. So what is the UK doing to protect its population? According to BBC news: once the virus has mutated into a form easily transmitted between humans, drug companies will set to work developing a vaccine. The government says it will buy 120 million doses of it - enough to treat the whole UK population. But a vaccine will only be able to be formulated once the pandemic has begun, we are told, and will take up to six months to prepare.
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Natural Help? So what can we do for ourselves? Well, I will be taking a leaf out of my aromatherpist's book and using preventative measures such as his anti-viral blends that have proved useful to me in the past when other viral infections such as colds and flu that affect the respiratory passages have been rife in the area! When coughs, colds and flu are doing the rounds he suggests:
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NHH would like to stress that the measures discussed are in no ways "Alternative" but Complementary to medical advice and if you are at all worried about your health please see a medical practitioner first.