THE PANDEMIC WE DON'T WANT TO RECOGNIZE It was caused by a virus. Still is. Two, actually, both species of the Genus Lentivirus. And it is a "retrovirus." Tricky in its ability to fool a host cell. Your cell. Here's how. When the virus passes into a human cell, it releases its genetic material within. [...]
Category: Disease Epidemics
“A Plague on your Houses”
"A PLAGUE ON YOUR HOUSES" That was William Shakespeare in his play, "Romeo and Juliet," written in 1592. [Act 3, Scene 1]. Appropriate at this time of our pandemic. For Europe had, by Shakespeare's writing, already suffered two hundred years of the Black Death! Let's investigate. The "Plague" is caused by a lowly bacterium, one [...]
Tuberculosis is still with us, is it hiding within you?
TUBERCULOSIS IS STILL WITH US, IS IT HIDING WITHIN YOU? In ancient Greece, it was known as "Phthisis," in Ancient Hebrew, "Schachepheth." In Rome, it was called, "Tabes." "Consumption" was the more modern moniker [for the accompanying weight loss] of the 18th and 19th Centuries. But it was never known as the "Black Death" or [...]
Yellow Fever! What the hell is it?
YELLOW FEVER! WHAT THE HELL IS IT? It ain't chicken if you define things against Captain Courageous! And it don't care 'bout you, just about your tissues. So stop saying such foolish things. You know better, and it's bigger than you, anyhoo! It was also called, "Bronze John," "Yellow Jack," "Malignant Fever," and "Black Vomit!" [...]
2.9 MILLION CASES WITH 95 THOUSAND DEATHS!
2.9 MILLION CASES WITH 95 THOUSAND DEATHS Each year. Worldwide. I'm not saying that. The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is doing so! But it is under control in the United States. Is it Covid-19? No. It is Cholera! Just the name sounds sickly. Cholera. What is it? A scythe-shaped rod [...]
Typhoid is not Typhus!
TYPHOID IS NOT TYPHUS! And neither is it a person, so stop saying that! Typhoid is bacteria and, thankfully, not a virus. And that is a good thing, for we can kill bacteria [sometimes] with antibiotics [think about the meaning of that word] and soap can attack their cellular membranes and tear them apart. Good [...]
Vaccination Presentation
VACCINATION. The word stirs hope in some, and strikes fear in others. How can that be? Both views can be reasonable, based upon the data and your point of view. Depending on what you believe, and what sources of information you believe are telling you the truth. And, perhaps, that has never been so important [...]
Polio: Have you been Vaccinated?
POLIO: HAVE YOU BEEN VACCINATED? Poliomyelitis. It is a virus, and you mostly likely were vaccinated. And as a result, the Americas were declared free of this pestilence in 1994, Europe in 2002. Remember the "March of Dimes?" 2,680,000 of those little metal chimes were mailed to President Franklin D. Roosevelt when he started [...]
Smallpox: Are We Kidding Ourselves?
SMALLPOX: ARE WE KIDDING OURSELVES? That we killed it? It is an old disease, but not a biblically listed scourge [maybe the population was too low]. But it does seem to be reflected in the older Egyptian record. And there were plenty of people and epidemics on that river down there in the desert [or [...]
A PLAGUE ON US: THE BEGINNING OF PANDEMICS!
A PLAGUE ON US: THE BEGINNING OF PANDEMICS! I suppose we had forgotten. Until we got our own pandemic. Didn't Salk and Sabin take care of these things? More about them later. Another article. That's Polio. Let us start, then, at the beginning. Except that we can't go that far back in antiquity. [...]