s the number of swine flu deaths swell to an alarming 1,800 worldwide, and the World Health Organization predicts an "explosion" of swine flu cases in the coming months  and declares a "public health emergency of international concern," a pandemic appears to be not only possible but inevitable.  The last pandemic -- the Hong Kong flu of 1968 -- killed about 1 million people.  (Source: Associated Press August 21, 2009)

     In the U.S., a White House panel warns that swine flu could kill up to 90,000 Americans.  The outbreak of swine flu virus last spring was only a preview of the chilling events to come.  NBC's Today Show reports, "Up to half the U.S. population could potentially be infected when the virus hits with full force."  The onslaught of swine flu will make itself painfully known during the upcoming flu season, starting fairly early in September.  It will most likely infect 30-50% of the U.S. population, or up to 152 million people; 1.8 million hospital admissions are expected; and as many as 300,000 people will be requiring intensive care, according to the panel of advisors to President Obama.  (Source: Robert Bazell, NBC's Chief Science Correspondent)

     Initial supplies of the swine flu vaccine, which will be available sometime in October are expected to be very limited -- barely enough to inoculate the 160 million people who are at high risk of becoming infected.  An even bigger concern is whether the fast-tracked vaccine is safe and effective -- since it's being rushed to market without the appropriate testing and safety evaluations. 

     It is a growing suspicion in the general population and among certain members of the medical community, including Dr. Joseph Mercola, the publisher of a popular self-titled natural health newsletter, that being exposed to this new swine flu vaccine might prove to be more dangerous than the swine flu itself. 

     NBC's Today Show even ran a news report in which the question was posed as to whether the swine flu vaccine testing (which started August 10) was making people "human guinea pigs."  This question must necessarily be asked because the swine flu vaccine catastrophe of 1976 is still fresh in the public's mind.  Dr. Mercola reported that in 1976, the swine flu vaccine was blamed for 25 deaths; several hundred people developed crippling Guillain-Barré Syndrome; and $1.3 billion in claims were filed by victims who had suffered paralysis from the experimental vaccine.  "Even healthy 20-year-olds ended up as paraplegics."

     Madison Cavanaugh, author of The One-Minute Cure: The Secret to Healing Virtually All Diseases insists, however, that the fear is incorrectly placed on the swine influenza virus itself.  "Microbes, germs, harmful bacteria and viruses, such as the swine influenza virus, do not cause disease in and of themselves," Cavanaugh states.  "They do seek their natural habitat -- such as an oxygen-deficient body -- rather than being the cause of the disease.  It's no different from the way mosquitoes seek out stagnant water, but do not cause the pool to become stagnant."

     Cavanaugh's assertion is consistent with the findings of Dr. Rudolf Virchow (1821 - 1902), also called the "Father of Pathology."  It is also supported by Louis Pasteur, the notable 19th century French chemist and microbiologist best known for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and prevention of disease, who recanted his germ theory of disease at his deathbed, stating, "The microbe is nothing. The terrain is everything."  The terrain of which he spoke refers to an oxygenated environment in the human body, which makes for a strong immune system.  A weakened or suppressed state of the immune system only occurs when the human body lacks oxygen, thereby allowing viruses, such as the swine influenza virus, to breed.

     It therefore stands to reason that the swine influenza virus does not cause disease, but rather seeks out an environment where it can thrive best -- and that is in oxygen-deprived bodies. "A sufficiently oxygenated body is uninhabitable by disease," Cavanaugh states, and viruses can neither survive nor thrive in it.  Therefore, the best defense against microbes, germs, harmful bacteria and viruses, such as the swine flu virus, is to keep the body oxygenated.

     Cavanaugh's book, The One-Minute Cure, discusses the therapeutic use of the only natural substance which stimulates the movement of oxygen atoms from the bloodstream to the cells to a dramatically greater degree than is usually reached by other means. This action creates an oxygenated environment that enables the body to cure itself of virtually all diseases ranging from influenza to cancer, AIDS, heart disease, asthma, diabetes and arthritis.  The natural oxygenating substance which is the core subject of the book has a long history of therapeutic use dating back 170 years ago when it was used to reverse a wide variety of illnesses -- from minor ones like colds and flu to serious ones like cholera and malaria.  It has even been used to help stop the Spanish Flu of 1918.

     Over the past 70 years, this safe, inexpensive and powerful healing modality has been administered by an estimated 15,000 European doctors, naturopaths and homeopaths to more than 10 million patients to successfully treat practically every known disease. The natural remedy can be self-administered at home in less than a minute, and costs only 1-1/2 cents a day to use.  For more information, visit www.1MinuteCure.com