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HEALTH UPDATE: THE AVIAN FLU
EDITOR’S NOTE:
The Integrative Medicine Alliance makes
no endorsement of any business, organization, practitioner, therapy,
or product described within this newsletter, nor is the information
contained herein intended to be a substitute for medical advice.
Flu Wilkie Helps the Holistic Community
Respond to Avian Flu
By Karlo Berger
The threat of an Avian Flu pandemic has become big news in recent
months, and its implications for caregivers of all backgrounds are
enormous. Although integrative and holistic caregivers have been
largely left out of pandemic preparedness efforts, they are slowly
beginning to make their voices heard.
In response
to this threat, a group of public health activists and concerned
citizens have launched Flu Wikie (www.FluWikie.com),
a comprehensive information resource that aims to
help local communities prepare for and
perhaps cope with a possible influenza pandemic.
Like the well-known
Wikipedia (
www.Wikipedia.org), FluWikie
allows users to add content, as on an Internet forum, but also allows
anyone to edit the content.
Flu Wikie takes a neutral stance towards complementary and alternative
medicine, and its Alternative Medicine Resource Page at
www.fluwikie.com/index.php?n=Consequences.ComplementaryAndAlternativeMedicine
showcases a wide range of holistic approaches on how to avoid catching
Avian Flu and how to possibly treat or alleviate it, should it become
easily contagious.
If the quality of health information found on it continues to improve,
Flu Wikie's Alternative Medicine Resource Page could be lifesaving
should a pandemic arise and an effective vaccine is not easily
available to all. I encourage all caregivers to visit FluWikie and
help make it the remarkable integrative public health resource it
could be, and is becoming. Flu Wikie needs your wisdom on possible
non-vaccine approaches to handling this deadly illness.
Karlo Berger is founder of the IMA and runs Whole Health Solutions,
a consulting business which builds bridges between conventional and
alternative healthcare, and which provides professional development
for holistic and integrative caregivers. His next Avian Flu Pandemic
Preparedness Training for Holistic Caregivers will be held on
Saturday, January 14th at the Charles River School of Shiatsu in
Cambridge, MA. For more details, visit
www.KarloBerger.com.
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Karlo Berger, ABT, LMT
Whole Health Solutions
236 Fourth Street
Providence, RI 02906 USA
(401) 383-0661
Karlo@KarloBerger.com
www.KarloBerger.com
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