Immunology: Virology
Viruses: What are they? What do we think we know about them?
"About five thousand viruses have been described in detail, although there are millions of different types."
I can't help wondering how we choose the viruses we include in vaccines. For example about thirty viruses have been identified that cause "measles." Yet only three are usually included in the vaccine.
Or we can count the number of known enteroviruses, now over sixty eight at least, which can cause all the same symptoms as the "polio" viruses. The sixty eighth of these to be discovered, called EV 68, is currently sweeping the nation causing a disease that looks exactly like polio but is called something else. It is killing a few kids a year, paralyzing more. Only three of these viruses are called "polio" and included in the vaccines and the "official" disease statistics.
Click here to read the wikipedia page on viruses.
I can't help wondering how we choose the viruses we include in vaccines. For example about thirty viruses have been identified that cause "measles." Yet only three are usually included in the vaccine.
Or we can count the number of known enteroviruses, now over sixty eight at least, which can cause all the same symptoms as the "polio" viruses. The sixty eighth of these to be discovered, called EV 68, is currently sweeping the nation causing a disease that looks exactly like polio but is called something else. It is killing a few kids a year, paralyzing more. Only three of these viruses are called "polio" and included in the vaccines and the "official" disease statistics.
Click here to read the wikipedia page on viruses.
Fear of the Invisible: The Nature of Viruses
The fascinating story and meditations of an insider in the exploration of virology. Just these few excerpts are enough to blow my mind. Imagine how much more expansive the entire book will be.
"I had to ask, would cells give such minute and ‘dead’ messenger vesicle the extraordinary ability to pirate vastly larger and intelligent cells – including cells of the same organism? This is the quandary we are left with if we agree that viruses are not alive and thus incapable of having a survival instinct. But what if cells create viruses as weapons – against other cells? If they do, then this would be remarkably suicidal as viruses usually pass from cell to cell within the same organism.
Such thoughts have left me deeply puzzled about the many pathogenic viruses reported to exist. I have severe doubts about some of these, particularly the poliovirus and HIV. I would have to look again at the evidence on other viruses.
Why do cells make pathogenic viruses? Surely the reason for this has been established in numerous laboratory experiments? It is a doctrine in virology that cells make malignant viruses only after a disease virus arrives and infects them. I had long presumed this must be so, but when I tried to analyse it, I had problems. I found myself asking, since a virus cannot make a virus, surely the first viruses to cause an illness must have been made by an uninfected cell?
It thus seems that cells may be sick, poisoned, stressed or malnourished in some way before they show the symptoms of ‘viral infection.’ There is a considerable body of research that indicates cellular illness or malnourishment often precedes the production of viruses, rather than the converse. For example: it is reported that deficiency in selenium, a metal our cells use as an antioxidant, can precede the symptoms of colds, flu and even AIDS. (There is also a strong co-relation between selenium levels in soils in African countries and the prevalence of AIDS symptoms.)
I had long presumed the evidence for these illnesses being due solely to viral infection must be overwhelming – but I have found to my surprise that scientists have long known that the guaranteed way to make cells produce viruses in the laboratory, including flu and measles virus, is not primarily by getting them infected, but by exposing them to stress and toxins!
In 1928 the President of the Royal Society of Medicine’s Pathology Section, A. E. Boycott, in a report on the ‘nature of filterable viruses,’ stated that with toxins ‘we can with a considerable degree of certainty stimulate normal tissues to produce viruses.’"
Click here to visit the wordpress site of Janine Roberts, the author, to read more excerpts and to find out how to get a copy of the book.
"I had to ask, would cells give such minute and ‘dead’ messenger vesicle the extraordinary ability to pirate vastly larger and intelligent cells – including cells of the same organism? This is the quandary we are left with if we agree that viruses are not alive and thus incapable of having a survival instinct. But what if cells create viruses as weapons – against other cells? If they do, then this would be remarkably suicidal as viruses usually pass from cell to cell within the same organism.
Such thoughts have left me deeply puzzled about the many pathogenic viruses reported to exist. I have severe doubts about some of these, particularly the poliovirus and HIV. I would have to look again at the evidence on other viruses.
Why do cells make pathogenic viruses? Surely the reason for this has been established in numerous laboratory experiments? It is a doctrine in virology that cells make malignant viruses only after a disease virus arrives and infects them. I had long presumed this must be so, but when I tried to analyse it, I had problems. I found myself asking, since a virus cannot make a virus, surely the first viruses to cause an illness must have been made by an uninfected cell?
It thus seems that cells may be sick, poisoned, stressed or malnourished in some way before they show the symptoms of ‘viral infection.’ There is a considerable body of research that indicates cellular illness or malnourishment often precedes the production of viruses, rather than the converse. For example: it is reported that deficiency in selenium, a metal our cells use as an antioxidant, can precede the symptoms of colds, flu and even AIDS. (There is also a strong co-relation between selenium levels in soils in African countries and the prevalence of AIDS symptoms.)
I had long presumed the evidence for these illnesses being due solely to viral infection must be overwhelming – but I have found to my surprise that scientists have long known that the guaranteed way to make cells produce viruses in the laboratory, including flu and measles virus, is not primarily by getting them infected, but by exposing them to stress and toxins!
In 1928 the President of the Royal Society of Medicine’s Pathology Section, A. E. Boycott, in a report on the ‘nature of filterable viruses,’ stated that with toxins ‘we can with a considerable degree of certainty stimulate normal tissues to produce viruses.’"
Click here to visit the wordpress site of Janine Roberts, the author, to read more excerpts and to find out how to get a copy of the book.
Fatal vulnerability of neurons from immunity, not from infection
"Clinicians often consider that the immune response to a virus in the brain is as damaging as the viral infection itself."
Click here to read the abstract of this paper published in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" in December, 2014 by a pediatric neurologist from Stanford.
Click here to read the abstract of this paper published in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" in December, 2014 by a pediatric neurologist from Stanford.
Do viruses kill us?
Dr. Russel Blaylock was a world renowned, cutting edge neurosurgeon. He has shifted his practice towards nutritional cures, thereby drawing the ire of the establishment, but his work is as solid as it gets.
In this concise article he describes how it is not viruses themselves that kill us but imbalances in the way we respond. Many of the imbalances are due to pre existing conditions such as poor nutrition or other forms of stress.
This is supported by the historical and scientific record in which we see that most infectious pandemics occur in malnourished populations and vitamin supplementation is one of the most universally successful responses for restoring immunostasis in such cases.
One might summarize this revelation thusly: To build collective immunostasis (aka herd immunity, if you like to think of yourself as a head of beef) we need to minimize the negative effects of such major stressors as war and poverty and maximize our collective health through cultivating our soil and feeding each other healthy food and spiritual nutriments.
Click here to read the entire article by Dr. Blaylock.
In this concise article he describes how it is not viruses themselves that kill us but imbalances in the way we respond. Many of the imbalances are due to pre existing conditions such as poor nutrition or other forms of stress.
This is supported by the historical and scientific record in which we see that most infectious pandemics occur in malnourished populations and vitamin supplementation is one of the most universally successful responses for restoring immunostasis in such cases.
One might summarize this revelation thusly: To build collective immunostasis (aka herd immunity, if you like to think of yourself as a head of beef) we need to minimize the negative effects of such major stressors as war and poverty and maximize our collective health through cultivating our soil and feeding each other healthy food and spiritual nutriments.
Click here to read the entire article by Dr. Blaylock.
Human Embryos Make Viral Proteins Within Days of Fertilization
"A fertilized human egg may seem like the ultimate blank slate. But within days of fertilization, the growing mass of cells activates not only human genes but also viral DNA lingering in the human genome from ancient infections."
http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2015/04/viral-proteins-may-regulate-human-embryonic-development.html
http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2015/04/viral-proteins-may-regulate-human-embryonic-development.html
The evolution of small pox virus: how do viruses change over time?
"The poxviruses (family Poxviridae) are a family of double-stranded viruses including several species that infect humans and their domestic animals, most notably Variola virus (VARV), the causative agent of smallpox. The evolutionary biology of these viruses poses numerous questions, for which we have only partial answers at present. Here we review evidence regarding the origin of poxviruses, the frequency of host transfer in poxvirus history, horizontal transfer of host genes to poxviruses, and the population processes accounting for patterns of nucleotide sequence polymorphism."
The evolution of pox viruses. Get your science hats on, my friends. These biologists are good. Like all good scientists, they offer more questions than answers.
A few we contemplate are:
1. How long does it take for a new pathogen to integrate into a harmonious relationship with humanity?
2. What immune factors are developed and passed from generation to generation in the process?
3. How does vaccination affect a thousand years of naturally cultivated immunity?
4. Are we setting ourselves up for a series of shit storms worse than the black death by crudely attempting to manufacture what we once naturally had?
Click here to read the entire study conducted by researchers in the Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina and published in January, 2010 in the journal, "Infection, Genetics and Evolution."
The evolution of pox viruses. Get your science hats on, my friends. These biologists are good. Like all good scientists, they offer more questions than answers.
A few we contemplate are:
1. How long does it take for a new pathogen to integrate into a harmonious relationship with humanity?
2. What immune factors are developed and passed from generation to generation in the process?
3. How does vaccination affect a thousand years of naturally cultivated immunity?
4. Are we setting ourselves up for a series of shit storms worse than the black death by crudely attempting to manufacture what we once naturally had?
Click here to read the entire study conducted by researchers in the Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina and published in January, 2010 in the journal, "Infection, Genetics and Evolution."
Insight Into How Viruses Are Studied and Classified
They specifically classify twenty three different types of viruses as causing measles.
Dig a little deeper and you realize they are not looking at even the whole virus. They are running mechanical tests. If they get a certain number of corresponding results in their machines they say it is a virus of the measles type. Yet how much variety are they missing?
In order to get a diagnosis of measles they have to get one of these test results from putting your blood into their machines. If they do not, whatever your symptoms, whatever you do have, they do not call it measles.
Click here to read this report from the CDC, published in 2011 in "The Journal of Infectious Diseases."
Dig a little deeper and you realize they are not looking at even the whole virus. They are running mechanical tests. If they get a certain number of corresponding results in their machines they say it is a virus of the measles type. Yet how much variety are they missing?
In order to get a diagnosis of measles they have to get one of these test results from putting your blood into their machines. If they do not, whatever your symptoms, whatever you do have, they do not call it measles.
Click here to read this report from the CDC, published in 2011 in "The Journal of Infectious Diseases."
Virology Lecture with History, Medical Science and Case Studies
Doctor Tent specializes in difficult cases and chronic illness. He shares his experience and insights as well as some of the history of virology and how it has been tied up in politics for a long, long time.
Click here to watch the two hour video lecture on youtube.
Click here to watch the two hour video lecture on youtube.