DANGERS OF VACCINATION

I was sad to read the statements against ex-Health Minister Jamie Maxtone-Grahame on the dangers of vaccination.

Severe comment has been made in the Post Courier of Papua New Guinea 13 January 2015 P.6 criticizing his view expressed in the social media.

Today, I typed Dangers of Vaccination into Google and was surprised to find the numbers of reports expressing concern at the possible adverse effects of vaccine on people's health. 

Whether or not this means that vaccination should be stopped is really another matter. Generations of children over recent centuries have been protected by vaccine. 

In the overall balance, the medical world has come down on the side of vaccination. In the absence of any replacement, that is the only course of action as long as precautions are taken for people who may be susceptible to adverse reactions.

  

MOST HITS COME FROM PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Over recent months, it has been a pleasant surprise to find that most hits to this blog come from Papua New Guinea. Only a few months ago, the most hits were from Russia and the USA. Now we find that the Czech Republic follows behind PNG. Russia and USA still lead on a monthly basis.

We would like to think that our blog gives considerable insight to readers on a wide range of topics. People are opening the reports in the absence of  any viable reports from the UN that focus almost exclusively on violence of men, abuse of women and rights of children.

It is left up to AIDS Holistics to report to the world on AIDS awareness. Our most read report in recent weeks has been Mend the Gut Lining.

Over Christmas, Papua New Guinea has led the field with 1034 hits in one month. That is not a bad figure for a blog operating for 4 years. Who are they? Our blog has had 161,000 hits in four years.

We could not compete with a blog by Jennifer Lopez. I look nothing like her. But we attract regular readers week by week, month by month and year by year.

We have been told that our Positive Living message is the underground message, read by so many but hidden from the UN gay and lesbian activists who will punish individuals and care groups for their family approach. AIDS Holistics was banned for our family approach in 2002.

UN funds will be blocked. Women and kids are supposed to be free from family. Family is authoritarian. Parents have no authority according to the lesbian activists. 

They can not scold, smack or tell a child to do what they do not want to do. Children can just tell their parents to go to hell. I do not want to wash the car. That is child labour. When I worked on my parents farm, I worked like a man. I was 9 years old.

During the El Nino drought in Queensland in 1957-58, I was 12 years old. My father was ill. My mother and I dragged dying cattle out of the mud of the waterholes by draught horses Blossom and Molly.

I pumped water out of a well by hand for 60 thirsty cattle. I shot dying cattle with a borrowed rifle. We dragged the carcasses away by draught horse. The cows on our farm were like pets. I shot Hazel and Elsie. Now that is child labour.

But we were poor and struggling. What else could we do? Middle class urban lesbian activists should just shut their mouths.

Remember a couple of years ago, President Hollande of France and his gaggle of socialists wanted to legislate that school children did not do homework. Twits. That should keep the kids on the streets and in paedophile beds. It was planned as blatant sabotage of family. Homework is the key to successful study.


Monthly hit tally  161 458

SECRET OF POSITIVE LIVING

If diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, the secret is not to change your positive lifestyle. If happy, stay happy. If the strength of your family and community, stay that way. If healthy, stay healthy. If you make jokes and people laugh, keep doing that. If you have faith, do not lose it.

If you work in a job, be as punctual, hardworking, loyal and creative as you always have been. If you study, keep on with your plans to graduate and do well. Keep yourself healthy and keep taking your medicine. You may have a long life ahead of you.

If you start to scream and shout, go out and get drunk every night, start promiscuous sex, become violent, hate your family and give trouble in the community, people will know something is wrong.

But if you do not change the person you are and just go on living, supporting and loving, you will stay healthy. You do not have to tell everyone you are HIV positive. Only your close family and friends. There will be no stigma and discrimination if you are still the person you always were.

PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY AND OLD AGE

For several years now I have suffered a tingling and stinging sensation in my toes that has increased in severity over the years. I have thought it may have been gout or diabetes 2. Please click:

Peripheral neuropathy - Mayo Clinic

www.mayoclinic.org/diseases.../peripheral-neuropathy/.../con-20019948
Symptoms - ‎Treatments and drugs - ‎Causes - ‎Hypothyroidism Peripheral neuropathy, a result of damage to your peripheral nerves, often causes weakness, numbness and pain, usually in your hands and feet. It can also .



I opened Google to find that peripheral neuropathy can have many causes including stress, diabetes, traumatic injury, gout, HIV/AIDS, shingles and many others. 
I always believed that my pain started with a long fall on the Kokoda Track some 8 years ago that injured my back and a fall down a deep drain in Port Moresby last year. I was tested for blood sugar last year and told the reading was 6 and normal. So it was not diabetes 2. Please click:
Peripheral neuropathy and HIV disease - Project Inform
www.projectinform.org/pdf/pn.pdf
Recently I met a kindly gentleman from the United States at the Holiday Inn who told me over a cup of tea that this was peripheral neuropathy that had also afflicted him. He was 81 years old going on 60 and suffered stinging up to his calves.

ARE PNG DOCTORS EXPERT?

Small intestine is not the immune system. Attack is on CD4 cells protecting the gut lining. 

In the last few days, there has been a controversy in the media on the advice on social media by ex-Health Minister Jamie Maxtone Grahame – a former unhealthy fat man who became a convert to positive nutrition and gave advice in the media on all kinds of health issues.

I have much respect for his commitment as I hope he has for the work of AIDS Holistics. Until now there has been no criticism of his writings and those of ours on internet. We did suffer the ranting of a doctor on the attack on the gut lining. Dr Moale Kariko never did correct his error.

But Jamie Maxtone Grahame has raised the anger of media on his advice on the dangers of vaccination. He does have a no win situation. There is no alternative to vaccination. But we do hear from time to time that a person vaccinated has suffered side effects. What do we do?

The technique had been invented three hundred years ago with Edward Jenner vaccinating a patient against small pox. It has improved over the years with vaccines developed that trick the body into producing antibodies that are ready to fight the real invader.

It may be that some people will have an adverse reaction. The vaccine may have been past the use by date. There may have been problems in the preparation and storage. But most people have been given life saving medication with antibodies that responded to mock vaccine.

I am glad my children were vaccinated against tetanus, polio and measles. They have been protected for all these years.

There is a problem in Papua New Guinea with professionalism of many doctors. There are those not up to date with medical research. There are doctors who do not earn a high income and live in rough settlement houses. Their professional research may be zero.

There has been a boost to doctors in the last decade with the national HIV/AIDS campaign controlled by foreigner gay and lesbian activists from Australia and the United Nations. They hold the future of the PNG doctors in the palms of the hands.

There is a gay and lesbian agenda that the doctors dare not speak against. The tame doctors can be employed in the UN or other foreign care groups if they shut their mouths. To speak out on the violence of women and dangers to gay health is to be black banned. They will stay in their squatter settlement houses for life.

Doctors would be afraid to speak out on the attack of HIV on the gut lining. They have covered the issue up by referring only to the immune system which does not include the gut.

Hence the unprofessional interference on my talk at a conference by Dr Moale Kariko on the gut attack. His understanding of AIDS faced zero and he was too arrogant to apologize to a mere lay person.

The attack on the gut lining has been on Google for more than 8 years.

But the key to understanding HIV infection is the attack on the gut lining. The damaged gut stops the absorption of nutrients, salts and water. On the other hand, the ARV treatment mends the gut along with strong nutrition. Gay men still face the gut parasites that enter their mouths as eggs on the faeces of other gay men.

Much of my knowledge has come from doctor friends who gave me text books on HIV/AIDS. My prized gift was on clinical studies on HIV/AIDS in Australasia by Professor Jenny Hoy et al. It showed a fearful collection of gut parasites that infest the guts of gay men.

But so many PNG doctors are professionally and intellectually lazy. They will not publicize what they know for fear of disciplinary action by the Medical Association. 

They reveal what they know only to paying clients. There is no public awareness. Why is the community not told about the dangers of smoking with TB and HIV?

Why is there no public awareness on ARV against rape? Lesbian activists probably say no. It is left to the care groups. Doctors are afraid to anger the foreign gay and lesbian activists in the UN.

It may cost them a job with a permanent place in the UN gay and lesbian black book. This may apply to doctors over the developing world.

I am defending professional PNG doctors not attacking them. They have enough problems.

SMOKING KILLS PEOPLE WITH TB AND HIV

People with TB and HIV must never smoke as it will damage their health and their immune system. In Papua New Guinea there seems to be a general lack of self-discipline among sufferers. Some will have the half smart idea that their carer can not tell them what to do.

If they want to smoke they will smoke. And they will die. I have looked after three women who secretly smoked. Linda died of AIDS in 2002. Sameo died of AIDS in 2003. Grace died of recurrent TB in 2013. All could be still alive.

Grace started to smoke early in her TB treatment. She would go with me to Pacific International Hospital where the doctor warned her not to smoke. But she returned to heavy smoking in the 5th month saying she was in charge of her life. She died 3 weeks later.

The result of earlier smoking, the bacteria was still strong in her body. At the 5th month, she still had one month of medication. The bacteria was still in her body ready to arise and attack her. The heavy smoking at the end was the final invitation to attack. The doctor thinks she committed suicide.

She left the house but texted some days later that she wanted to come back as she was dying. She said her hands and feet were cold. I told her to catch a taxi and come. But she never did . She died some days later.

Her father had taken her away without her TB medication so she probably missed a week of two of daily medication. He was an inspector of police and arrived drunk, bashed her carer and took her. He was a fool. It is too easy to blame the carer.

The carer did not allow her to smoke. But when he left the house, the packet of cigarettes would come out of the hiding place. Linda was the same. Her family blamed her carer when she looked like a skeleton in the 11th year of HIV. That was before the days of free ARV. She was secretly smoking herself to death.

DO NOT SMOKE WITH TUBERCULOSIS. YOU DIE AFTER THE BACTERIA ARISES AND DESTROYS YOU.

SMOKING CAUSES RECURRENT TUBERCULOSIS

Smoking causes recurrent tuberculosis - report. I looked after Grace who died 
last year of recurrent TB. She started secretly smoking in her 5th month of 
treatment.

24 March 2014 – Research published today provides critical new insight on harmful links between smoking tobacco and developing  tuberculosis (TB). Regular tobacco smoking doubles the risk that people who have been successfully treated for TB will develop TB again—a condition known as "recurrent" TB. The study is the most robust ever conducted into how smoking tobacco increases the risk of recurrent TB. It appears in the April issue of theInternational Journal of Tuberculosis and  Lung Disease. "More than ever before, we understand how tobacco harms people who have already  beensuccessfully treated for TB," said Dr Chung-Yeh Deng of National Yang-Ming University inTaipei , an author of the study. "No one should undergo the long, complex treatment forTB only to unknowingly place themselves at heightened risk of getting  the disease again.With this research we can inform national tobacco control policies and educate patientsabout the risks that smoking tobacco poses. " The researchers followed a large sample of 5,567 TB patients in Taiwan, each  of whomhad TB confirmed through bacteriologic testing and went on to successfully complete TB treatment. Of those patients, 1.5 percent developed a recurrent case of TB, with regular tobacco smokers twice as likely to develop recurrent TB compared with former smokersand with individuals who had never smoked tobacco. Regular tobacco smokers were defined as individuals who smoked 10 or more cigarettes— equivalent to half a pack—per day. "Until this study was published, we didn't have a clear sense of how smoking tobacco  posed risks to TB patients who have put in the hard work of completing their treatment. This is a robust study with important implications for patients, public health programmes and policy-makers alike," said Dr Paula Fujiwara, Scientific Director of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), which publishes the journal. The research was announced on 24 March to coincide with World TB Day, which  marks the anniversary of Prof Robert Koch's discovery of the bacteria that cause tuberculosis in Berlin. More than a century later, Koch's discovery is still considered among the most revolutionary in the history of medicine, since it paved the way to finding a cure for thedisease known in the 19th century as "The White Plague". "You often see tuberculosis still referred to as an 'ancient' disease, but this study  is furtherevidence that TB is a fully modern illness that is impacting people in new ways," said José Luis Castro, Interim Executive Director of The Union. "Unless we adapt our TBcontrol strategies to respond to newly ascertained risks, such as smoking tobacco, theglobal rise in diabetes, and the overcrowding we see in cities as the world urbanises, we will always remain two steps behind the bacteria that cause this disease." To read the study, click here  # # # About Tuberculosis Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that is transmitted from person to person through the air, typically through coughing or sneezing. According to the World Health Organization, in 2012 an estimated 8.6 million people became sick with TB, and 1.3 million people died from TB or TB-related causes—more deaths than any otherinfectious disease except HIV/AIDS. Current treatment regimens require a patient to take several drugs for at least six months and up to two years or more for some drug-resistant cases