Students eat garlic to prevent H1N1 flu

[Pathfinder]

Students forced to eat garlic to prevent H1N1 flu
(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-11-20 08:49

Teachers of the No 15 High School in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, have purchased about 200 kg of garlic, which students are forced to eat every day for lunch.

The school staff believe eating garlic can prevent the H1N1 flu.

Students said even though they could smell garlic in every corner of the school premises they appreciated the school's efforts to keep them safe from the pandemic.

(Qianjiang Evening News)

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-11/20/content_9009287.htm

Hangzhou

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[tropical]

Re: Students eat garlic to prevent H1N1 flu

Garlic have natural good qualities,
even when eated by individuals, the others will mantain a great social distancing ...

But when all the present eats garlic,
than nobody found it smell any more, so they groop again.

If enormous quantities were eaten,
maybe the garlic-linked particles are so impregnated with the inhaled air,
that even those scam viruses detract and perish ...

As said previously,
if other measures are not feasable, possible, or in time,
people will try to make it by any old fashoned remedy they can found at hand.

Frankly, if other measures are vaccant or not enaugh,
in a circle of all garlic-eaters, it is feaseable ...

[Pathfinder]

Re: Students eat garlic to prevent H1N1 flu

As fear of H1N1 flu rises in China, so does the price of garlic


By Aileen McCabe, Asia Correspondent, Canwest News Service
November 26, 2009

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A market vendor, wearing a face mask, stands in front of a large pile of sacks containing garlic at an outdoor food market in Beijing Nov. 25, 2009. The price of garlic in China has nearly quadrupled since March, propelled by its very pungence to rank ahead of gold and stocks as the country's best performing asset this year. The trigger for the bull run, according to Morgan Stanley economists, may have been the idea that the potent bulb can help ward of the H1N1 virus, popularly known as swine flu.

Photograph by: David Gray, Reuters


SHANGHAI ? As fear of H1N1 flu grows in China, so too does the price of garlic.

Pandemic panic is definitely not the only reason garlic prices are soaring in Chinese markets ? the fact farmers planted only half as much as last year is the biggest factor ? but the idea of mixing the pungent bulb into traditional Chinese medical potions to ward off the flu is helping to deplete stocks in many vegetable stalls.

In Shanghai, garlic is selling at as much as $2 a kilo, about 50 per cent more than just one month ago.

Garlic has long been considered by many to be a natural enemy of the common cold and some viral infections, but it seems to be attracting more attention as H1N1 spreads.

It is unclear where the latest craze of using garlic to combat H1N1 came from, but it was given a decided boost by a recent China Daily story that is now cited everywhere on the Internet.

The story said: "Teachers of the No. 15 High School in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, have purchased about 200 kg. of garlic which students are forced to eat every day for lunch. The school staff believe eating garlic can prevent the H1N1 flu."

Not everyone is convinced of the efficacy of a garlic cure, however. At a local Shanghai market on downtown Julu Lu, a greengrocer surnamed Ye attests to the rise in price, but says he hasn't seen any rise in demand ? just the opposite, in fact.

"The sales used to be better when the price was lower," he said in an interview.

Ye added: "I know garlic is good and garlic can kill viruses, but honestly, I don't think it can prevent H1N1 flu."

Doctors and government officials are trying hard to bring people around to Ye's way of thinking. Yu Jian'er, head of Shanghai's Municipal Hospital of Traditional Medicine, told the Shanghai Morning Post that not only is garlic no substitute for China's national vaccine, it is actually "hot in nature," and should be consumed sparingly.

The truth is, however, that the vaccine is not available to the vast majority in China, even if they all wanted it.

China has enough for only seven per cent of its 1.2 billion population, so it is carefully controlling who gets inoculated.

At the moment, about 1.5 million Chinese are vaccinated daily, mostly health and emergency workers, primary and secondary school students and teachers, and pregnant women.

By the end of the year, health officials say 80 to 90 million people will be vaccinated.

So far, China has reported 104 swine flu-related deaths, but there are growing indications that the number is higher and that H1N1-related deaths are being wrongly reported as pneumonia.

There are also fears the number could begin rising faster now as H1N1 mutations take hold. Chinese health officials this week reported eight different mutations of swine flu on the mainland.
? with files from Jessie Zhou

http://www.canada.com/health/swine-flu/fear+H1N1+rises+China+does+price+garlic/2269393/story.html

[Amish Country]

Re: Students eat garlic to prevent H1N1 flu

Back in 1918 during the first world war an Armenian Doctor in Europe advised soldiers fighting in the US Army to eat garlic to ward off the influenza. The soldiers were former Armenians who had become US citizens by agreeing to fight in the Army. They lived to pass this story down to their children, who passed it on three generations now.

[newfreedom]

Re: Students eat garlic to prevent H1N1 flu

Back in 1918 during the first world war an Armenian Doctor in Europe advised soldiers fighting in the US Army to eat garlic to ward off the influenza. The soldiers were former Armenians who had become US citizens by agreeing to fight in the Army. They lived to pass this story down to their children, who passed it on three generations now.

wonder how much they ate in one day?

[Amish Country]

Re: Students eat garlic to prevent H1N1 flu

wonder how much they ate in one day?

What you saw above was the story that was passed down and shared with me. There was no other specific information. I will try to find out if this has now become a traditional flu preventive for the family and if they eat it raw or cooked.