Posted on 07/16/2009 1:51:42 PM PDT by Michel12
An Israeli company has developed a revolutionary new drug that could solve the problem of Colony Collapse Disorder, the disturbing syndrome that has been wiping out bee communities and threatening agricultural production all over the world.
The drug, Remembee, which was developed by Beeologics, has completed successful clinical trials on millions of bees in North America. Not only has it proved effective in maintaining bee health, but it also improved the longevity of bees and increased the honey in the hives.
Based on Nobel prize-winning RNAI technology, Remembee helps the bees overcome IAVP virus, also discovered in Israel, which has been associated with colony collapse in scientific literature.
"It's really a tug of war between the virus and the host. We are helping the bee tug the rope more strongly and beat the virus. We take advantage of an immune system that the bees elicit for viral disease. But we are really using naturally occurring phenomenon. It's not a pesticide and it's not toxic," says Nitzan Paldi, CTO of Beeologics.
The US Department of Agriculture has been accompanying Beeologics with its FDA certification process due to the urgency of the need for the drug.
Uh-oh... watch out! Here come the “no vaccination” people...
Best of all, the honey the bees produce will be kosher.
How’d you like to be the nurse with the hypodermic, giving vaccinations to bees?
But it’s so dang hard to give them those shots!
The “Earth First” freaks will be protesting against this.
It’s got to be better than the poor soul that got stuck applying topical viagra to mice.
Unfortunately, all the test bees die from the needle puncture wound.
So now we get to “sting” the bees with an innoculation?
Sure. Rub it in...
Them Jews again!
Israel is truly the land of Milk and Honey.
Am Israel Chai
Long live Israel!
I presume this is a food-based vaccine. They use sugar-water to distribute.
So how many of those countries with an Ag business still want to boycott Israel? Hello? Anyone there?
I guess they can get this product from the Palestinians!
The only puncture that the Palestines are good for it that of a .45 caliber.
Yes, I’ve been following this issue from a cursory perspective for a few years now. One of those “background” things that I knew could make it to the foreground if it did not change.
This really is good news.
Obviously the Jews are part of the conspiracy against climate change awareness, because everyone knows that Global Warming is what’s killing the bees...
/96 psi sarcasm
The “no vaccination” crowd is annoying, but those among them who know what RNAi is might give you a “neener neener” about that.
This isn’t a “vaccine” per se, at least as far as I understand it given the mention of RNAi technology utilized. It could be better likened to an “anti viral medication”, or an “antibiotic” (to put it in very common parlance, but of course antibiotics don’t inhibit viral growth) as it appears to inhibit the construction of the IAVP virus in the cell, probably by interfering with the construction of its protein coat.
IOW this treatment doesn’t render the bees “immune” to the virus (as a “vaccine” would), it only prevents its continual reproduction in the host organism.
Well, I was under the impression that a vaccination “helped” your own immune system to recognize and fight off the culprit — and it seems that this (with the bees) helps recognize and fight off the culprit... am I wrong?
Anyway..., I’m not making a big deal about it... it just seemed like the perfect “sound-bite” to give under the circumstances... LOL...
Yeah, they'll tell us the bees will all become autistic.
and mass world-wide starvation..., as a result...
But, it won’t really matter, because all the forced vaccinations will have killed off the population of the U.S. which was the original intent, anyway... :-)
You make an interesting case here. I suppose that it could be called a "vaccine" under that definition.
I was operating under the classical definition of vaccine which is when the immune system is challenged with an attenuated or dead bacteria/virus, specific markers on the bacteria/virus will trigger an immune response that eventually leads to immunity.
This is not RNAi technology; RNAi technology doesn't involve the immune system, directly. I suppose it could be argued that it helps the immune system fight off the virus, by reducing viral load. The bee(s) that did so successfully would be immune but of course this immunity couldn't be passed down via reproduction (of course that doesn't happen with any vaccine). The immunity doesn't come from the RNAi strategy however, like it would come from a vaccination intervention.
Anyway, the point is that this isn't a vaccine in the biological/medical sense. Given your definition it could be defined as such, but of course, given that definition, anything that helps us fight off infections could be labeled a vaccine, such as vitamins, hot tea, chicken soup, etc.
I'm not really arguing with you. For me, when the press uses biological terms incorrectly, it bugs me as much as when they use terminology associated with firearms probably bugs gun enthusiasts. It's just a pet peeve I have.
Also, this is an interesting thread to bump.
Sure, I know you’re not arguing and thanks for the thoughts about it. And you should know I was only half-serious....
Don’t ask me what the other half was, because I don’t know... :-)
And another pet peeve (regarding the anti-vaccination crowd) of mine is when I see them fight against the ingredient “thimerosol” so vociferously (because it contains Mercury, a heavy metal dontcha know) but yet many of them will tout the benefits of CONSUMING colloidal silver (ANOTHER heavy metal).
Paradox, thy name is “alternative medicine”.
Yeah... :-)
I found out recently that drinking water is hazardous to my health..., it can cause my death. If I drink too much I can “drown”... LOL...
Is there no more balance in the world? That’s the only question I have... :-)
Those Israelis! Makes you wonder where they get the inspiration for the things they come up with...
*rolls eyes skyward*
Bookmarking bee vac.
Well it’s true of course, consuming too much of anything is hazardous.
I believe there was a case a year or so ago of a person who, in the course of some crazy radio contest, died from drinking too much water (the contest was to see who could drink the most water without going to the bathroom).
With water, if one drinks too much of it, it removes important electrolytes that the body needs to function properly. Usually this isn’t a problem, but if one drinks gallons of it without consuming something to replace the electrolytes, it can be deadly. You’d have to drink a couple gallons in a short (1-2 hour) period of time though.
Most people don’t drink ENOUGH water in a day. Drinks like coffee/tea/sodas aren’t good substitutes for good ol’ H2O, they actually remove more water than they replace.
This is obviously impossible, because as we all know, we owe all our science and learning to Moslems.
I just hope the research was done in one of those “settlements” on the “West Bank”.
Yes, Spain at found it was a bacterial and treated hives with antibiotics and cured the problem.
You mean Bee Settlements?
Israel invented drip irrigation and Bacillus Thuringiensis Israelensis (BT).
Obviously they’ve found a Plan Bee.
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