The Commonhealth of Virginia Times     Turning Health Into Wealth For All Virginians Since 2026 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   How to Improve the Common Health of Virginia             If health is wealth, the Commonwealth of Virginia should strive to improve its common health. The quickest most affordable way to accomplish that would be to establish the Virginia Institute for Clinical Health Research – VICHR - at Virginia Commonwealth University. VICHR will clinically test additional uses for existing medications.                 Virginia researchers can discover safe, effective and affordable complementary therapies to come closer to curing numerous diseases and finding ways to reduce the symptoms of some of those by 20% to 40%, or more. States shou...

  The Ca-Choo - Flu Begone News     Capitol Hill City Edition – Winter 2026 Real Flu News for Real Fluish People    –    All the News That’s Fit to Sneeze At Free – But Worth Every Penny – Published by Howard Steel Armistead, IAS,   CloserToaCure.com Circulation – One Ream __________________________________________________________________________________________________ It’s Never Too Late to Get Your Flu Shot             According to the New York Times and the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of   Minnesota, the 2026 winter flu season is the worst in 25 years. As a state reporting among the top fifteen influenza infection rates, Virginia is in the bullseye of this annually recurring pandemic.             The current strain of the H3N2 influenza-A in circulation is the s...

1.       Introduction: The Challenge of H5N1 Avian Influenza               H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) may soon gain the ability to transmit human-to-human. It has not achieved that yet but appears to inch closer each month. It could happen soon – or not so soon. H5N1 already has infected and killed tens of thousands of dairy cattle in 15 states (Gutierrez). Over 108 million chickens have died or had to be culled nationwide (Abbott) since the virus arrived in the U.S. from Northern Europe in 2021. (Peacock) Most wild bird species that crisscross American skies carry H5N1 and have infected both domestic fowl and 200 mammal species in America since it first appeared. It has killed half the American bald eagles in some states. (M. Johnson)            Cows (Kristensen), pigs (Saey 4/24), minks (Tufekci ‘23), ferrets (Belser) and cats (Chothe) all carr...