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In April 2010, there seems to be a lull regarding influenza concern in the world.
Avian flu is not in the news. However there are backyard poultry deaths in several countries and at least 2 countries have human deaths.
There is still this swine flu out of Mexico starting in 2009. This influenza has markings of swine, bird and human flus. In the spring of 2010 it's not in the news, but this flu is around in various continents. Health Authorities are being challenged as to whether the pandemic label was justified. Yet,...some resistance to Tamiflu has been found. It's not gone yet.
Follow the directives of medical experts tempered by love of yourself AND others.
We should strive to communicate with all peoples of the world with all possible languages so we can warn to prevent any preventable spread. We may save the lives of people we reach in this way. We can save lives, perhaps even our own.
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But how?
How can we reach those at the "ends of the earth"?
Here is a "Words from the Bible" method.
How do we find:
**New** illness of--pigs--(out)of "ME-HI-CO" (pronunciation of "Mexico" in Spanish)?
(pigs=swine)
"New illness of pigs" has already been touched on in the book "Health Words in the Word". See Pages 20 and 25.
Some references:
new: 1 Corinthians 5:7
illness of: Galatians 4:13,(14)+ OT refs
pigs: Luke 15:16
of ...(a country) -- Acts 20:18; Revelation 1:4
ME syllable with a short e is found in: Melea + Menna of Luke 3:31
HI syllable with a short i is found in: Hierapolis of Colossians 4:12
KO or CO syllable is found in Colossians and Corinthians
Instead of the ME"HI"CO syllables, you can also use ME-Ke-SI-CO syllables to approximate the English transliteration.
ME and CO syllables see above.
Ke - with short e, is found in Akeldama of Acts 1:19
SI - with short i, is found in SI-meon in Luke 2:28 and Revelation 7:7
We could try to avoid the idea that it is only pigs that have the illness now.
To have a more precise description, instead of "illness" we could use "VI-RUS" or "VI-RU-Se" and extend the list of vectors:
New "virus" of pigs, birds and (great numbers of) people (out) of ME-HI-CO.
More Bible references than the above ones:
VI-RUS - see syllable search P.21 and 22 in the book
of birds - Ecclesiastes 12:4
(great numbers of) people - Acts 11:21,24,26
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There are many wordings that can help after having named the pertinent illness. See the book.
The symptoms apparently are:
fever - See Chapter 15 of Health Words in the Word
sore throat - "My throat is dry." is on P. 123 of the book - a more specific wording would be nice!
cough - not in the book
and sometimes
diarrhea = dysentery - P. 123 of the book
and
vomiting (- not in the book)
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Let's see:
The word "cough" or "coughing" is NOT in the Bible.
Describing a cough, you may make the statements.
You can not swallow.
You can not speak.
You can "try to" vomit/(spit out).
Water to drink? - Daniel 1:12
Nothing but .... water to drink? - Daniel 1:12
The Bible does use the word "choke" in 7 references. Translations use words like "suffocate" or "strangle", so this is not a good word to use in the case of this swine flu.
The symptom of
vomit is found in Isaiah 28:8 in the OT and in 2 Peter 2:22 in the NT.
"sore throat" is not in the Bible. BUT, we can adapt the
My throat is dry. of Psalm 63:3 to:
My throat is ... sick. - sick (adj.) < Matthew 25:36
My throat...has...a discharge / spit(ting). - Psalm 63:3 + (no time to look for the refs.)
My throat is "covered with sores". - Ps. 63:3 + Luke 16:20
This description is probably to strong a wording.
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All these part phrases have Bible references. There is not enough time to add them all now.
Tamiflu and Relenza are medications that are apparently useful against this new flu.
The book does not have the TA-MI-Fe-Lu Bible syllable references.
So here they are:
TA - TA-bitha - Acts 9:36,40
- TA-litha cumi. - Mark 5:41
MI - MI-letus - 2 Timothy 4:20
Fe - Fe-lice (Italian) - P. 158 of the book
LU - LU-cas, LU-cius LU-dim - Page 158 of the book
There is not enough time to add the Bible references of the syllables of:
RE-LE-Ne-ZA
If needed, you too can search out the refs to find suitable other language wordings. There is little time for me to find some examples just now.
If it is a flu involving still other animals, then those animal names can added to the description.
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ON THE TRAIL OF HEALTH WORDS DESCRIBING THE
INCUBATION PERIOD, the SYMPTOMS PERIOD and the RESOLUTION PERIOD OF AN ILLNESS...
Incubation of this new influenza is 24 to 48 hours. The length of Bible hours and even "days" is different from ours. It is better to state with a different unit of time: "days and nights" meaning "days including nights":
"1 or 2 days and nights"
"OR" is found in phrases like "good or bad", "young or old" and "boy or girl".
There are "3 days and nights" that Jonah was in the fish. There are OT (Jonah 1:17) and NT (Matthew 12:40)refs!
There are "40 days and nights" of Moses on the top of the mountain in the OT and "40 days and nights" of Jesus' fasting in the desert (Matthew 4:2.
Surely, you, too, can find the words for 1 as well as 2 in your Bible, and then even in a Bible of a different language!
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It takes #/eleven days from ____ to _____. - Deuteronomy 1:2
Il y a #/onze journées depuis ____, jusqu'à _____. - French
Hay #/once días entre ____ y ____. - Spanish
By adding the appropriate number for the days and the "beginning" and "end" words also found in the Bible we could vary this sentence to:
H1N1/A - It takes # days (and nights) from BEGINNING to END.
More variations:
H1N1/A - Fever... takes # days and nights from BEGINNING to END.
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What time IS it???
Is it a time NOW of personal touch choice OR NOT?
A time to embrace
and/(or)
a time to shun embracing - Ecclesiastes 3:5
un temps pour embrasser,
et/(ou)
un temps pour s'éloigner des embrassements - French
un tempo per abbracciare
e/(o)
un tempo per astenersi dagli abbracci - Italian
tiempo de abrazar
y/(o)
tiempo de abstenerse de abrazar - Spanish
Actually for this influenza situation I would turn the phrase around, add a NOT strategically and state:
a time to shun embracing
and
NOT a time to embrace - Adding NOT and Bible Word Order Adaption
(C'est)
un temps pour s'éloigner des embrassements
et
NON un temps pour embrasser. - French
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If you find useful Bible words or phrases to add here for fighting this flu, please add the information in the guest book. Thanx.
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May God send us the wisdom and knowledge we ALL need. Lord God, have mercy and heal.
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In November 2008, Egypt is conducting the 4th national vaccination of backyard poultry against avian flu. OIE webpage has declared avian flu endemic and is not reporting individual outbreaks at this time.
Egyptian Government site in English
Egyptian Government site in Arabic
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For times such as this, stir your soul!
Check out and adapt:
Health Words in the Word
- Avoid Frequent Illnesses
by G.G. Koch
amazon.com (most cost effective)
barnesandnoble.com
and
Xulon Press Bookstore
Frequent Illnesses - they have been around since time immemorable. Communicable diseases are the same old scourges, yet they are different now!
The book and webpage "updates" become timeless for any frequent illness because they can be adapted with some thought for new and ancient illness situations "just in time".
The book has a specific focus: avian flu as an example. This webpage extends the focus to other illnesses, especially as they are in the world news headlines.
Also available:
the original free online e-book with 1/2 the book information
Download: Frequent illnesses and the Power of God
View with the free downloadable Adobe Reader 8
Influenzas are frequent...Avian Flu is a particular influenza--frequent in birds that MAY again become more frequent in people.
There was no case of confirmed human avian flu in October/November 2008 written up in a situation report by the WHO, yet poultry outbreaks are numerous in many countries.
There was only one report filed in June 2008 about 2 human deaths.
Is there a lull before a storm? Are vaccines being used successfully? Scientific American featured an article about Walter Fiers, of Ghent University, Belgium, who seems to have a vaccine that may eliminate all influenza. The numbers of annual world-wide victims of all influenzas is staggering! The vaccine or some part of it is patented.
(Lord Jesus, son of the Most High, will there be justice and good conscience?)
In 2007 there were reports of human cases every 4 days and a death every 6 days. Survival rates seem stable. Numbers indicate 1/2 to 3/4 of all people with avian flu died. Perhaps countries are not reporting all cases, since only laboratory confirmed cases are included in the WHO statistics.
In 2007, January to April 2, there were 25 human cases; 12 died. In January-September 2007 there are 65 cases; 42 died.
There are troubling indicators. In 2008 there have been bird avian flu cases in most provinces of Indonesia and many governorates in Egypt. There are cases in China, Vietnam and other Asian and African countries. In Egypt getting this flu is not necessarily a death sentence!
As Egypt and Indonesia reported human cases (2007), they did not report bird and chicken die-offs on the FAO webstite. That should go together.
In March 2007 already, there were animal cases in Pakistan in 5 districts. Abbottabad, Mansehra, Peshawar, Rawalpindl and Islamabad. No human cases were reported at the time. The first Pakistani officially died of avian flu in the Peshawar area in November 2007. WHO reported it on its website only a month later in December.
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For AIDS there was a time when these numbers were the infection rate.
Now an HIV infection occurs every 6 seconds.
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Acknowledge the risk of Chaos, but get proactive straight from the heart to have PEACE. Let's value people near and far.
There is hope. Scientists are working on avian flu vaccines for prevention. As of February 2008 there are vaccines being tested for Clade 1 and Clade 2 tpyes of avian flu. (See the WHO webpage for details.) Health departments are teaching infection control management for families, doctors/nurses etc. and countries.
There is hope. Swift action is required with communicable diseases. An example: A Canadian train was put into quarantine when a woman died there and others were sick. Everybody was checked out, and as it turns out, there was no risk. The quarantine was lifted quickly. Better to have a preparedness plan with good communication in place, than to leave everything to 'chance'.
There is hope. There are many people determined to rid us of AIDS. Much money, effort and prayers are dedicated to combat AIDS around the world.
There is hope. You can do your part!
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(All of you) WATCH! - wording found in Mark 13:37
! اسْهَرُوا - Arabic
Veillez! - French
Magbantay kamo! - Hiligaynon
Vakið! - Icelandic
Vegliate! - Italian
Vegheaţi! - Romanian
бодрствуйте. - Russian
¡Velad! - Spanish
Kesheni! - Swahili
Magbantay kayo! - Tagalog
Hãy tỉnh thức! - Vietnamese
It's EVERYONE's JOB to be on watch against causes of disease and the beginnings of communicable disease spread.
Let's not be found sleeping "on our watch"!
Sample OIE country report of
H5N1 Avian Flu in Poultry
of 42 local outbreaks
- June 2008
Check out:
the locations: village names and areas,
viewable on the right of each box,
the map of occurences and
the summary numbers of poultry destroyed near the end of the file!
You can access more country files by searching the menu. The total information is saddening.
It seems obvious that outbreaks occur more often near water (along rivers and deltas)!
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In 6 months, what will you answer to:
"In the last 6 months, what have YOU done?"
I hope that YOU will
1) WATCH and PREVENT what only YOU can do to prevent illness!
2) check out this webpage
3) pray in your own words (Today's Prayer gives you a start, if you wish.)
4) bookmark this page for future reference
5) give away "Health Words in the Word" books
6) check for updates here
7) add a frequentillnesses.com link to your webpage(s)
8) click the "Recommend to a friend" button at the end of each sub-page to forward a link of the particular subpage to friends and acquaintances, especially those in the medical community or whereever an epidemic is starting
and
9) use the information for yourself, your family and community "to heal" even though you may never have thought of yourself as a healer.
Pray for the whole world including Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Cambodia, China, Djibouti, Egypt, France, Ghana, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Laos, Malaysia, Niger, Nigeria, Romania, Slovenia, Thailand, Togo, Turkey, Vietnam. Current world status of various illnesses can be accessed by following various links on the "current" link on the menu.
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As of November 2008 there have been visitors from about 85 countries of the world to this website since there are detailed stats. It is an ongoing encouragement! _____________________________________________________
What can we do against emerging virulent flu viruses?
What can we do against communicable diseases in general?
What can we do about illness now and in the future?
Pray and do something.
Prepare for LIFE even in difficult epidemics.
G.G. Koch, teacher with a Master of Education degree, wrote a series of November and December 2005 letters that were substantially revised in 2007. The revised book is published just in time for the flu season that is bound to come around again. She looks at what Bible words can be useful. G.G. has published various free webpages online with ourchurch.com. The letters or chapters are written for Christian believers as well as skeptics. The first letter addresses the general recommendations of Health Departments.
All of you wash your hands!
Do not touch!
and
Cover...your face.
There is more of course.
There are some thoughts about and answers to:
God speaks in all human languages, so many direct quotations from the Bible are featured in English first with equivalent quotes.
Will God give you new, ordinary and spiritual gifts?
God's Word says you should ask.
These letters are for YOU! The least YOU can do is pray and use your talents and connections.
These health letters were written for YOU to read ...
for such times as these.
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Some people have asked about the book title:
Is there such a word as "illnesses"?
Here is my answer.
1) "illnesses" as in "frequent illnesses" is found in 1 Timothy 5:23. In this case you can count the "illnesses": The unspecified stomach illness, the back pain that comes and goes illness, the cholera illness, the AIDS illness. That's 4 illnesses so far.
2) There is a also a general, generic "non-count" illness word that appears all-inclusively plural.
example:
Illness, in general, is a big problem in poor countries.
or
Illness of all types, is a problem in poor countries.
This "illness" word includes all the illnesses of poor countries.
Besides, how can you count some illness. Sometimes, there is just an uneasy feeling, hard to put into words. Would that be half an illness?
3) As for communication with real people, especially those learning English, I don't think this fine difference in meaning is important. The goal of all communication is understanding and the goal for this webpage is saving lives!
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