Vitamin D and H1N1

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Please pass on to all the readers:

 

This is evidence what we've known all

along that vitamin D works against the swine flu and other flu:

 

 

September 17, 2009

 

I’m writing to alert readers to a

crucial email from a physician who has evidence vitamin D is protective against

H1N1 and to ask you, the reader, to contact your representatives in Washington

to help protect Americans, especially children, from H1N1 before winter comes.

 

Dear Dr. Cannell:

 

Your recent newsletters and video about

Swine flu (H1N1) prompted me to convey our recent experience with an H1N1

outbreak at Central Wisconsin Center (CWC). Unfortunately, the state

epidemiologist was not interested in studying it further so I pass it on to you

since I think it is noteworthy.

 

CWC is a long-term care facility for

people with developmental disabilities, home for approx. 275 people with

approx. 800 staff. Serum 25-OHD has been monitored in virtually all residents

for several years and patients supplemented with vitamin D.

 

In June, 2009, at the time of the

well-publicized Wisconsin spike in H1N1 cases, two residents developed

influenza-like illness (ILI) and had positive

tests for H1N1: one was a long-term resident; the other, a child, was

transferred to us with what was later proven to be H1N1.

 

On the other hand, 60 staff members

developed ILI or were documented to have H1N1: of 17 tested for ILI, eight were positive. An additional 43 staff members

called in sick with ILI. (Approx. 11-12 staff

developed ILI after working on the unit where

the child was given care, several of whom had positive H1N1 tests.)

 

So, it is rather remarkable that only two

residents of 275 developed ILI, one of which did not develop it here, while 103

of 800 staff members had ILI. It appears that

the spread of H1N1 was not from staff-to-resident but from resident-to-staff

(most obvious in the imported case) and between staff, implying that staff were

susceptible and our residents protected.

 

 

Sincerely,

 

Norris Glick, MD

Central Wisconsin Center

Madison, WI

 

Dear Dr. Glick:

 

This is the first hard data that I am

aware of concerning H1N1 and vitamin D. It appears vitamin D is incredibly

protective against H1N1. Dr. Carlos Carmago at Mass General ran the numbers in

an email to me. Even if one excludes 43 staff members who called in sick with

influenza, 0.73% of residents were affected, as compared to 7.5% of staff. This

10-fold difference was statistically significant (P<0.001). That is, the

chance that this was a chance occurrence is one less than one in a thousand.

 

Second, if you read my last newsletter,

you will see that children with neurological impairments, like the patients at

your hospital, have accounted for 2/3 of the childhood deaths for H1N1 so far

in the USA.

That is, the CDC knows, because they reported it, that patients with

neurological impairments are more likely to die from H1N1.

 

The problem is that I cannot get anyone in

authority at the CDC or the NIH to listen. I need readers to email or call

their senators and congresspersons in Washington.

 

 

Ask your senator or congressperson to

contact the CDC and NIH to complain about CDC and NIH inaction on Vitamin D and

H1N1. Also, ask your senators and representative to demand congressional

hearings on Vitamin D and H1N1, before it is too late. Here is the link below,

just click it and follow instructions to contact your own represenatives.

 

http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml

 

John Cannell, MD

President

Vitamin D Council

585 Leff Street

San Luis Obispo, CA 93422