The Next Pandemic

The Week Magazine ^ | 9-2-2014 | The Week Staff

[blam]

Meant to ping you to post #20.

[DuncanWaring]

Is Robinson the manufacturer or just the distributor?

[ConjunctionJunction]

Thanks!

[blam]

Manufacturer.

[Disambiguator]

Smallpox killed 300-500 million people in the 20th century alone. To say nothing of malaria.

Collectivist ideology killed 100 million during that same time frame. It's poised to do even more in the 21st century. It's a disease (of the mind) that needs to be stopped, too.

[DuncanWaring]

Thanks for the info.

I usually stop by there once a week or so; watching for it next trip.

[Maudeen]

Epidemiologists believe we’re statistically overdue for a global viral outbreak, which occurs every generation or so.

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http://www.patburt.com/ Maybe make that the “last generation.”

[Farmer Dean]

Thanks for the info,going to Sam’s Club.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Not necessarily true for the typical cold or flu.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070718002136.htm

If you are looking for a prophylaxis, Vitamin D would probably be more useful, as it has about a half dozen known antiviral actions.

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0011088

However, this is in the normal virus realm. H5N1 influenza is anything but normal.

To start with, it is a novel virus, so there is no immunity or partial immunity to it. This also means that it takes only a fraction of the amount of active virus to cause infection. Plus a very large pool of animal vectors, some with radically different immune systems.

It was the first real proof of the cytokine storm in which the immune system overreacts so violently that it kills the host. The later virulent H1N1 epidemic in Ukraine further proved its effects, the lungs of deceased victims looking black and burned.

Because of the lethality of H5N1, a lot of research went into finding an OTC chemical blend to lessen the Acute Respiratory Distress (ARD) associated with it as well as the virus itself.

The best approach to the virus was to hit it at all levels: keeping it out of the body; taking colloidal metals to inhibit viral reproduction; making cells ‘slick’ against the virus Hemagglutinin (the ‘H’ factor in H5N1), so they cannot attach and penetrate the cells; inhibiting viral reproduction within cells; inhibiting the viral Neuraminidase (the ‘N’ factor in H5N1), so the reproduced viruses cannot break out of the dying cell; having a vitamin D breakdown product in the blood that erodes the viral coat; having the proper immune response pathways open, again via Vitamin D; and Vitamin D as an ACE inhibitor to moderate the immune response.

[JRandomFreeper]

Governments have pretty good lethality numbers, too.

/johnny

[DuncanWaring]

Humanity - its own worst enemy?

[JRandomFreeper]

Pretty much since we figured out how to use a rock to enslave our neighbor...

/johnny

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 9/02/2014. Thanks blam.