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The American public.
Brazil produces nearly one out of every six glasses of Orange yours.
Consumed in this country.
Well joining us now to assess the orange juice imports -- this new strain of Swine Flu -- is our doctor Marc Siegel Fox News senior medical contributor.
Author of the book the -- -- unlocking the secret code of sickness.
And health doctor it is great to see you could you indicate and as always we are talking about a threat to the public health when we do meet.
It -- let's start with this orange juice.
Scare.
It doesn't sound like we know what it does it all we have business and statement about what it does to animals but not people.
We don't know for sure it's something called carbon dizzying and it's been called when we always do this to me OK it's called what car benzene.
It's considered one of the four filthy -- pesticide.
On the planet earth because what you percent of what it -- to animals right it can interfere with -- reproductive function in May have a risk of cancer.
It has not been well studied in humans I will tell you.
-- these levels it's not doing anything I'm not worried about human health.
With this amount we're talking about 35 parts per billion the larger issue here Lou we already talked about -- -- which is what's the FDA don't.
There -- a joke I mean they can't seem to get a standard and apply it across the board.
This stuff is leaking in from Brazil here in the United States you're not allowed to use this fungus -- it's bad.
So 16 of Orange juice has amount of this in it it's not hurting us but I don't -- -- the FDA can't do their job.
And the fact is that they only now are learning about it.
Tells -- the degree to which they are.
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Is it -- five.
VV.
I hope it's a derivative of the H one and when -- he said it beautifully in the in the set up here but solves that provides a news that it right it's a derivative that comes from in 2009.
Swine Flu but.
Once again the provided the the presiding thing the passage and is actually fear.
It's that people here Swine Flu -- here I go it's gonna get me get what I want to tell you hundreds of different -- come out every year.
The key point is that this does not pass easily human to human.
It's only infected twelve people so far the Centers for Disease Control is right to watch it.
But it's showing very limited ability to spread right now we get -- -- all the time.
If this sense of being a new -- it's -- we're gonna have to get a vaccine for the CDC says it's on high alert and -- we to do.
I think they should be on high alert I don't -- we we should realize we should not there.
We are you but but having said that I want to point out -- is a big deal influenza is a big deal.
It kills 34000 people in the United States every year most of them from flu related illness we should always be on the lookout for flu this timing here and she get -- flu shot.
I give you yours on the -- -- a shock to -- by the way.
-- we wanna be very clear we're not we're not preaching -- that we don't practice the exact thank you for that you are great parents are all thank you Burma to reverberate.
Thank you very much Doug remarks that are it is always good to see you.
