Something is amiss.  When studying mortality charts released by government health authorities, there are sudden dramatic ups and downs that go unexplained.  These swings in mortality rate apparently reveal what health authorities don’t want the American public to know.

 

For example, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) says its support of inexpensive therapies such as aspirin and diuretics (water pills) along with statin cholesterol-lowering drugs, saved 815,000 lives in the year 2000.  But the chart used by NIH belies the claim.  A steep decline in mortality rates can be seen on the NIH chart beginning in 1970.  But the first statin drug, Mevacor, wasn’t introduced till 1987.  Aspirin therapy wasn’t endorsed by the American Heart Association till 1993.  Diuretics weren’t incorporated into practice guidelines till the 1990s and then most doctors ignored the advice from NIH and didn’t use water pills to treat high blood pressure.  So whatever was causing a steep decline in mortality rates wasn’t being prescribed by doctors. 

What caused mortality rates to drop?

 

The decline in mortality rates was suddenly in steep decline after 1970.  What could have brought about that drop?  In 1970, Dr. Linus Pauling published a book entitled Vitamin C And The Common Cold.  The consumption of vitamin C from foods stayed about the same, around 100 milligrams per day.  But millions of Americans began popping vitamin C pills.  The intake of vitamin C rose by 300%.  The U.S. was the only country where this decline in mortality rates was observed.  [Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine]  Did Dr. Pauling, in his discourse on how to avoid the common cold, inadvertently prevent heart disease?

 

Did Vioxx really kill 50,000 Americans?

 

Another example of a change in mortality rates the health authorities don’t want exposed coincides with the recall of Vioxx, the pain-relieving COX-2 inhibitor, that was recalled by its manufacturer after it became apparent that it was responsible for cardiovascular deaths.  Sales of Vioxx pills declined by about 6-million prescriptions from 2003 to 2004.  Notice the mortality chart provided by the Centers for Health Statistics, which shows a dramatic decline in the mortality rate during that same period.   About 50,000 fewer Americans died in 2004, an unexpected and unexplained decline.  Health authorities say a drop in cardiovascular deaths explained most of the fall.  Vioxx specifically provokes heart attacks and strokes.  There were no other major changes in heart medication or treatment in 2003-2004 and the consumption of cigarettes actually rose slightly over that same time period, so a decline in smoking could not be a factor.  Furthermore, a slight rise in mortality rates is documented over the time period beginning when COX-2 inhibitor drugs were first introduced in the late 1990s. 

What about the rise in mortality rates in 1992-93?

 

Focus your eyes once again on the CDC chart and notice that there was another unexplained sudden change in the death rate long about 1992-93.  Nearly 93,000 more Americans died in 1993 than the previous year.  This caused U.S. life expectancy to drop slightly, the first decline in decades.

 

A CDC review of mortality patterns in 1993 states: “the decline in life expectancy likely reflects increases in death rates for chronic diseases during the two influenza outbreaks in 1993.”  [Morbidity Mortality Weekly 45 (08), 161-64, March 1, 1996]  Some increases in chronic disease (diabetes, heart disease, COPD) were “the result of the two influenza epidemics of 1993,” said the report.  [Monthly Vital Statistics Report, Volume 44, No. 7(S), page 9, Feb. 29, 1996]

 

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) frequently claims flu outbreaks are cyclical and refers only to three major influenza pandemics: the 1918 Spanish flu that killed an estimated 500,000 Americans, the 1957-58 “Asian flu” that caused 70,000 deaths, and the 1968-69 “Hong Kong” flu that caused 34,000 Americans to die.  A smaller “Russian” flu outbreak in 1977-78 that killed an estimated 8,300 is often mentioned, but not the 1992-93 flu outbreak that was the most severe since 1918.  The rate of flu vaccination increased from 1992-93, so it is not a likely factor, unless the vaccine itself harbored unkilled viral particles that could have triggered the rise in mortality.  While we may never know if this was the actual cause, it is a likely explanation.

 

 

There is a lot going on in American healthcare that health authorities don’t want the public to know about.  These mortality charts reveal health authorities are hiding nutritional breakthroughs and fatal drug reactions, as well as epidemics and the failure of vaccines.  Who knows what else they are hiding?

 

Copyright 2006 Bill Sardi, Knowledge of Health, Inc.  Written exclusively for the National Health Federation.  www.knowledgeofhealth.com

Bill Sardi is a consumer advocate and health journalist, writing from San Dimas, California. He offers a free downloadable book, The Collapse of Conventional Medicine, at http://www.askbillsardi.com.