With Norovirus gastroenteritis threatening schools at the start of a new term and already causing the closure of hospital facilities (98 wards in 44 hospitals so far), with an estimated cost to the NHS of £100 million and an estimated cost to UK business of £80 million in the last two days alone, why does no one ask if homeopathy could help? In the absence of a conventional weapon to fight this predictable annual infection, what possible objections could there be to trying homeopathy and homeoprophylaxis (preventive by nosodes e.g.)?

It appears that the establishment would prefer to lose these huge sums and suffer massive disruption to hospital services, operations, school time and industry losses, let alone all the human suffering and potential risk to life, than give homeopathy a chance to show its mettle.

Couldn't even one hospital break the mould and strike out into new territory, by consulting homeopathic doctors for a possible treatment and preventive? What can we lose? I suppose that the big danger would be that it might work!

Why has the pharmaceutical industry not leapt on this annual epidemic to cash in on a huge bonanza from vaccine production and sales? I suppose we can rest assured there will be something in the pipeline so that these rich pickings can be harvested in the future.

Why not take a look at www.alternativevet.org , while you're here? (e.g. www.alternativevet.org/nosodes.htm : www.alternativevet.org/homeopathy.htm