The Great Bird Flu Hoax: The Truth They Don't Want You to Know About the "Next Big Pandemic"

by Joseph Mercola, Pam Killeen

Presents doubts about the alleged risk to the world of a bird flu pandemic, stating that medical evidence does not support this conclusion and attributing the warning to the collusion of government and drug companies who stand to reap enormous profits.

Genres: Health, Nonfiction

251 pages, Hardcover

First published September 19, 2006

About the author

Dr. Joseph Mercola is a natural health expert based in Illinois. He believes that people are capable of taking control of their health – they can harness their body’s ability to stay optimally healthy. He shares his recommendations through his website, Mercola.com. It is one of the leading natural health websites today, with over one million subscribers worldwide.

Dr. Mercola has authored three New York Times best sellers, "The Great Bird Flu Hoax", "The No Grain Diet", and his latest book, “Effortless Healing”, which he has written as an easy-to-read guide that can help you avoid the many pitfalls of the conventional approach to health through nine simple steps or healing principles.

Reviews

[Wendi Lau · Rating 3 out of 5]

I started out ready to put the book down in chapter one because I did not think Dr. Mercola was taking bird flu seriously. However, as I read on, I found his points about factory farms breeding and spreading harmful microbial matter and vaccines over-use harming our immune systems to be highly plausible. Who makes money when the solution to global disease is clean water, better sewage handling, and good, real food. Dr. Mercola emphasizes that avoiding illness begins with being healthy. Not easy. Not simple like popping a pill or getting a shot.

Read the part about kimchi curing chickens with bird flu. Awesome!

[Michelle · Rating 1 out of 5]

Author spent more time discussing health, diet and exercise than the controversy of H5N1 transmission between birds and humans.

[Jhawn]

I thought this guy was OK until I started reading this. Not anymore. This is irresponsible.

[Jeannie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really got into this book at the beginning, tons of information not only on bird flu but how the drug companies lobby the government to scare the heck out of us ordinary folk so we will buy into the "miracle vaccines" we all must get to survive this or the next scary flu or bug that comes along. info on what types of foods we really should be eating for better health, really just tons of very good info but I lost my train of thought in the middle of this book and never got it finished. I am rating it as if I did cause I do believe this is a book everyone should attempt to read.

[Robert Mckay · Rating 2 out of 5]

When the title promises a look at why there never was a pandemic of the avian flu, even though the media tried to make us think one was coming and would destroy us all, I expect the book to do that. Instead, except for a little bit early in the book, this is a book designed to convince people that traditional medicine is, at the very least, not as good as the industry wants you to think.

Now I don't quarrel with what Dr. Mercola says. A lot of what he says makes sense. A lot of it applies today, to the kung flu pandemic (by now, of course, there is no more pandemic - the disease is endemic, like the regular flu) But I opened the book to learn about the avian flu matter, and the book just doesn't deliver on that point.