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We suggested several times (3/21/20, 6/23/20, 8/6/20, 10/18/20) that childhood vaccines may provide cross reactivity, and protection or partial protection against covid19, particularly the MMR and polio vaccine. Childhood vaccinations provide one explanation for why children do not get covid19, are asymptomatic, or are less severely affected. Vaccinations also explain why some countries have had a lower rate of covid19 and covid19 death—the countries that had mass vaccination programs for the MMR. Other scientists are now also reporting childhood vaccinations,…..
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…..
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…..
Imervectin is an anti-parasitic, used to treat a variety of intestinal and skin parasites, in humans and animals. WHO considers Imervectin one of the safest and most important drugs in combating the global burden of disease. In The Origin of Disease: The War Within, we said Imervectin was one of the most underutilized drugs in medicine (Chapter 3, Page 67); and on 4/5/20 and 5/7/20, we posted about Imervectin and Covid-19, after laboratory testing suggested Imervectin was effective in killing…..
Our hope is science will develop new methods to diagnose pathogens quickly, and the diagnosis of infectious pathogens will be implemented in routine medical practice. We hope for a method to quickly and easily diagnose covid19, that can be used in the home as quickly and easily as pregnancy tests; discovery of new anti-viral medications to treat covid19 and other serious viruses (which are in development); and a new understanding of how to develop vaccines quickly and efficiently to address…..
Past infection with viral pathogens that are closely related to covid-19 may provide limited protection against covid-19. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/health/coronavirus-immune-cells.html?referringSource=articleShare
The immune system attacks pathogens in a series of programmed activities. Mast cells (a/k/a mastocyte or labrocyte) are the first immune cells to reach pathogens. Leukocytes (white blood cells, i.e. neutrophils, monocytes, macrophages, eosinophils, basophils); and lymphocytes (T-cells, B-cells, natural killer cells), attack the pathogen, and transport the pathogen to the plasma cells. The plasma cells (a/k/a plasma B-cells, plasmocytes, or effector B-cells), are transported by the lymphatic system, and make and secrete large quantities of antibodies to specific pathogens……
We suggested in March and June of 2020 that studies and surveys be done to determine why children seem to be less effected by covid19, and that existing vaccines and other recent viral infections may provide partial protection against covid19. The Mayo Clinic has now reported one or more non-COVID, FDA-approved, readily available vaccines, may have some protective effect in covid19. Vaccines reported to have some protective effect included the MMR, the polio vaccine, the influenza vaccine, and the pneumonia…..
From 1346 to 1353 the world suffered and died from bubonic plague, a/k/a the Black Death, which was transmitted by fleas. Just this week, a man was diagnosed with bubonic plague in NM; however, today bubonic plague is treatable with antibiotics. In 1918 the world suffered from a pandemic of H1N1 influenza, and in 2009, another outbreak of H1N1 erupted, and was named an H1N1 variant. In 2019, H1N1 cases erupted in the ICE detention centers. Once a pathogen crosses…..
The rapid increase in covid-19 across Florida, Texas, Arizona and the rest of the south suggests more than person-to-person transmission may be behind the rapid increase in covid-19 cases. Legionnaire’s disease and chlamydia psittacosis are known to be capable of transmission through air conditioning systems. One study in China showed those seated at a restaurant and downwind of the air conditioning vent contracted the virus from a group of people at another table. Could the summer heat in the…..
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