Monthly Archives: October 2020
The NYT article describes how malaria can silently hibernate inside cells during the dry season, and erupt when provoked by a new malaria infection during the rainy season. Similarly, acute infection with intracellular pathogens can become a chronic infection, which hides silently and evades detection by the immune system for years or decades. An acute infection in addition to a chronic infection can become a more severe acute infection, trigger adverse events, or trigger the eruption of chronic disease. For…..
Over the ages, many theories have been proposed to explain the cause of disease. In Ancient times people believed diseases were sent from God (or the Devil). Hippocrates proposed diseases have a cause, and defined the causes of disease based on an imbalance in the four humors (yellow bile, black bile, phlegm, blood). The miasmatic theory attributed disease to noxious air and vapors. The theory of spontaneous generation was a belief that living organisms (such as fleas and maggots) could…..
Coronaviruses are part of the family of rhabdoviruses. The rhabdovirus family includes several viruses for which we already have vaccines or treatment. The list of viruses in the rhabdoviruses family explains why children are having none or less symptoms with coronaviruses—they were vaccinated more recently for related or similar viruses, to wit: MMR, polio, rotovirus, and influenza. Rhabdoviruses include: coronaviruses–Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever orthonairovirus–Dengue virus–Ebolavirus–hantaviruses–Hepatitis B virus–human immunodeficiency viruses–Human orthopneumovirus–influenza viruses–Japanese encephalitis virus–Lassa mammarenavirus–Measles morbillivirus–Mumps orthorubulavirus–Norovirus–Poliovirus–Rabies lyssavirus–Rhinoviruses–Rift Valley fever phlebovirus–Rotavirus–Rubella virus–Tick-borne…..
Others have written about [undiagnosed] chronic infection with immortal bacteria in chronic inflammatory diseases. In this 2016 article, the authors suggest a relationship between chlamydia pneumonia and Alzheimer’s, arthritis, asthma, atherosclerosis, and cancer; and that the innate immune system reacts to chronic infection to cause inflammatory disease. An immortal pathogen, or combinations of immortal pathogens, can cause the same or different diseases in different patients. Immortal pathogens trigger an immune system reaction and an infectious cascade. Specialization in medicine separates…..
In “The Origin of Disease: The War Within” we wrote that abnormal proteins generated by immortal pathogens are not alive; and thus, cannot be killed. Abnormal proteins cause tissue to stick together, become inclusion cysts, are a focus for immune system attack, and adhere to and alter genes and gene expression. Understanding immortal pathogens are generating abnormal proteins may lead to alternatives for treatment, and new ways to eliminate abnormal proteins in the body after acute and chronic infection. …..
This New York Times article, by Carl Zimmer, describes remarkable research into the structure of covid19. The research showed covid19 is protected from the immune system, by sugar proteins attached to the surface of the virus. Intracellular chlamydia consumes the ATP energy made by the cell; and when ATP is exhausted, consumes sugar. Chronic chlamydia also damages the ability of the cell to bring sugar into the cell, which leaves excess sugar outside of the cell, in the bloodstream and…..
People who have a prior mental health diagnosis at the time of admission to the hospital for covid-19 were reported to have a worse prognosis and higher rate of death from covid-19. Mental health patients are at risk for, or have, many co-morbid medical conditions, including but not limited to cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes and cancer; and younger patients diagnosed with mental illness are at higher risk of developing chronic diseases at a younger age, including cancer. Mental illness…..
One study showed it took on average 11 seconds before the physician interrupted the patient during a patient encounter. Another study showed it took on average 18-21 seconds before the physician interrupted the patient, during the patient encounter. The standard history form fails to inquire into to the medical history of non-genetic relatives in the household, close contacts, or pets. The medical system relies heavily on technology, which does not detect chronic infection until it has reached an advanced stage……
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