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Drug-Resistant Malaria May Pose Major Threat
According to Newsweek, "A strain of drug-resistant malaria that was discovered last summer along the Thailand-Cambodia border has been been spreading throughout Southeast Asia, to Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar." Specifically, the samples are resistant to anti-malarial artemisinin.
The study analyzed more than 900 blood samples from malaria patients at over 55 different sites in Myanmar. The results showed that the drug-resistant bug was widespread, and dangerously close to the Indian border in the country’s Sagaing region. "Our study shows that artemisinin resistance extends over more of southeast Asia than had previously been known, and is now present close to the border with India,” wrote the researchers in the study abstract.
No one gives a shit about piss colored people.
Are the mosquitoes DDT-resistant?
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
It's being spread by a man-in-the-middle attack, where the man in the middle has malaria and is literally an actual man in the middle. Most likely an Anti-Vaxxer.
that there are just too many people. The Earth is a self-correcting system.
are a serious threat to me, is anyone doing something about THAT!?
Asian are not responsible, well maybe too nihilistic, enough to handle DDT...
Soooo wait....! You mean to tell me that for decades you've been spraying bugs, bacterium and virii that have a lifespan of about a month and for which there are billions upon billions reproducing continually since the dawn of time... that they haven't evolved to send a big ole FUCK YOU your way? HAHHAHA, LOL on you mate.
Stupid humans, when will you learn that you simply cannot cheat the biosphere. We've been here FAR longer than you, and we're better at it than you. We 0WN J00 and there's NOTHING you can do about it. You're our bitch, bitch.
I'm guessing malaria is now resistant to quinine, too, but I'm still game to try to tackle this problem with gin and tonic. We just need a large enough gin and tonic to cover Africa. If it doesn't fix the malaria, at least they probably won't care so much that they have malaria.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
We need a worldwide effort from every single nation to capture specimens of every mosquito species. Once this is done, all mosquito species should have their genes resequenced so that all males are made sterile, thus destroying this creature in every habitat, worldwide. This entire species has no redeeming value whatsoever, and should be completely eradicated.
We should, of course, continue research for new means of destroying malaria itself. However, the best long term solution is to attack the primary means through which the disease spreads. This will in turn take the pressure off of anti-malarial drugs, for they will not have to be used so often, thus will resistance be lessened.
There is NO reason NOT to do this.
Killer mosquitos are here to eliminate amphibian grabastic protoplastic shit that doesn't pack the gear to serve in our beloved race.
More more power to them them. (Edit edit?)
Indeed, major pandemics have been documented throughout the last 2000 years. Air travel today, just means they happen much faster.
The average person thinks modern medicine and hospitals can "take care of everything" but plans can't be made when a pandemic strikes 20 or 25% of the population who all want to go to the hospital in the same time period.
The WWI-1918 "Spanish Flu" was perhaps the last major pandemic, infecting 1 out of 3 people in the world and killing 10% of the world's population in about 18 months.
3% to 5% of the world's population. It killed fewer than 100 million people, possibly as low as 50 million....
"I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
IIRC quinine is still effective but because it can have worse side effects, it is a second line drug now if artemisinin fails.
But be careful, it does nothing against tigers.
I recall reading that the reason for the drug resistance was the over-use of sub-therapeutic levels of artemisinin in the area.
And for that reason, the resistance is limited to those regions where they use sub-therapeutic levels.
Right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrwZN1cPfX8
Cheap easy way to cure malaria. But because it is cheap, drug companies don't like it.
There is even new evidence that DDT was not the cause of the egg shell thickness problem. It could have been environmental acidification. Even with much lower use of DDT egg shell thickness is still down.
Some studies show that although DDE levels have fallen dramatically, eggshell thickness remains 10–12 percent thinner than before DDT was first used.
DDE is the metabolite of DDT that is thought to cause egg shell thinning.
It looks like this might be another correlation is not causation problem.
I wish so fucking I could mod you up right now. I even logged in to see if I had mod points!
Wasn't that the plan? I guess that commitment went out the window with charging retail prices for the new Windows OS...
Is it resistant to gin & tonic?
"If anything can go wrong, it will." - Murphy
Ronald Reagan Hospital is spreading superbugs because they tried to sweep germs under the rug. They were just living up to their name!
No they are not resistant, and a program to put DDT in paint for walls was defeated by the ideology that everything with a chemical name is bad. If a mosquito landed on the wall it would be weakened and then die. People are not harmed by DDT, and paint on walls is not likely to be washed into the local streams. Any birds who flew in and ate paint might be harmed. This activity by birds has not been noted by any researchers however.
What has been noted is that some 30,000 African and Asian people die each year from malaria. But the European and American activists will not support DDT. After all, it is not they who are in danger.
in all probability or else they'd be using DDT, which is legal for malaria control.
DDT is a good example of a failure of capitalism. A wonder chemical that was pushed as a money maker as hard as the chemical company could and while it succeeded in bringing malaria under control in temperate climates, in tropical climates mosquitoes evolved resistance.
We're seeing the same thing now with anti-biotics. Drug companies have pushed the use so much that even live stock uses tons and it is routinely used for useless things like viral infections as well as being overused for much else and now bacteria are becoming more and more anti-biotic resistance and soon we will be back to early 20th century conditions when so many died of simple infections.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism
An yet the raptors made a serious comeback after DDT use was cut back. Yesterday I went to the local dump and counted 30 eagles. It's important to have carrion eaters around to slow down disease spread and eagles are very good at eating carrion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism
You totally have it figured out. If there's one thing a farmer wants to do it is waste money on useless shots. They've got all the money in the world so just waste it to make drug companies rich!
Holy shit, I've found him! HEY EVERYONE! It's the rational man! Quick, let the economists know they're not full of shit!
If there's one thing a farmer wants to do it is waste money on useless shots.
You're making no sense at all. Farmers give antibiotics because they're proven to bulk up their animals. Meanwhile, we're the ones that get the incurable diseases. Fortunately, antibiotics make e coli O157 produce more shigatoxin so it doesn't really matter how resistant it gets.
Just because something is short term beneficial does not mean it is long term beneficial. There's also the problem that some moves benefit a small group while harming a large group. Fatten up the animals, good for the farmer. Encourage the evolution of anti-biotic resistant e. coli, bad for society.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism
Agree with your 3-5% mortality. I find it astonishing that 1 in 3 people were estimated to have contracted the flu. Virtually all people were exposed, so that means they must have had prior antibodies.
"In malaria, Plasmodium falciparum, for example, depletes its host of Vitamin A, possibly resulting in blindness in some cases. However, 200,000 International Units of Vitamin A, given to children every three months can reduce significantly their susceptibility to malaria. This would seem to be a minimum child dosage for the treatment of the disease."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...
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Take a look
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists fed large doses of DDT to captive bald eagles for 112 days and concluded that “DDT residues encountered by eagles in the environment would not adversely affect eagles or their eggs,” according to a 1966 report published in the “Transcripts of 31st North America Wildlife Conference.”
"The conglomerate disease brought on by the many poison vaccines baffled the doctors, as they never had a vaccination spree before which used so many different vaccines. The new disease they had created had symptoms of all the diseases they had injected into the man. There was the high fever, extreme weakness, abdominal rash and intestinal disturbance characteristic of typhoid. The diphtheria vaccine caused lung congestion, chills and fever, swollen, sore throat clogged with the false membrane, and the choking suffocation because of difficulty in breathing followed by gasping and death, after which the body turned black from stagnant blood that had been deprived of oxygen in the suffocation stages. In early days they called it Black Death. The other vaccines cause their own reactions — paralysis, brain damage, lockjaw, etc.
When doctors had tried to suppress the symptoms of the typhoid with a stronger vaccine, it caused a worse form of typhoid which they named paratyphoid. But when they concocted a stronger and more dangerous vaccine to suppress that one, they created an even worse disease which they didn’t have a name for. What should they call it? They didn’t want to tell the people what it really was — their own Frankenstein monster which they had created with their vaccines and suppressive medicines. They wanted to direct the blame away from themselves, so they called it Spanish Influenza. It was certainly not of Spanish origin, and the Spanish people resented the implication that the world-wide scourge of that day should be blamed on them. But the name stuck and American medical doctors and vaccine makers were not suspected of the crime of this widespread devastation — the 1918 Flu Epidemic. It is only in recent years that researchers have been digging up the facts and laying the blame where it belongs."
The Earth is a self-correcting system.
It's ecosystems that are self correcting, the Earth itself couldn't care less (if it could) about the biological activity on its super thin skin.
The problem lies in how an ecosystem self corrects. If you look at Norway lemmings for example, once population numbers increase, they start consuming more natural resources, leading to more population, etc, until all resources are spent, Lemmings starve, and the population crashes (=self corrects).
If humans have to consume all natural resources first (and we consume much more than grass alone), then the whole ecosystem will collapse, many species will go extinct, and what's gone can never come back. Some humans might survive and, if they haven't learnt from their mistakes, will start a new cycle, just like the lemmings.
by the companies who already have a cure/drug developed adn tested.
DDT doesn't just kill mosquitoes, but lots of other more useful insects (pollinators) and even some larger animals as well. Not exactly good for the ecosystem. It accumulates in fat tissue and works itself up through the food chain, even making it into penguins on Antarctica.
It could be useful when applied locally, for example inside homes, but afaik spraying large areas of land is no longer considered a good idea. And then of course there's the pesky little problem of resistance to DDT which has been shown to develop rather quickly when DDT is used indiscriminately.
Yes, the relevant genes aren't going be expressed much ... but nothing a little selective pressure couldn't fix in a hurry.
Giving anti-biotics to cattle makes them fatten up quicker. It also breeds immunity to that anti-biotic.
The device can be build in a day at any University.Please study this and share the word about this Malaria Treatment using Oscillating Magnetic Fields which can be built by Collage or University students.Six million people are dying each year from Malaria.People just like you.Children,men women, mothers and fathers dying in great pain and suffering from malaria right now.Remember just because it's not shown on the tv does not mean it's not happening. www.washington.edu/news/2000/03/30/magnetic-fields-may-hold-key-to-malaria-treatment-uw-researchers-find/
The year 2000 research was confirmed in 2011 and can be seen here:-
http://www.phys.cwru.edu/undergrad/Senior%20Projects/papers/papers2011/Thompson_Brown_2011%20S.pdf
How many people does it take before it becomes wrong? A thousand? Fifty thousand? A million? How many people DOES IT TAKE?
1 ) In year 2000 Professor Henry Lai of University of Washington discovered that relatively weak oscillating magnetic fields disrupt the reproductive cycle of the malaria parasite.Here is the link:-
https://www.washington.edu/news/2000/03/30/magnetic-fields-may-hold-key-to-malaria-treatment-uw-researchers-find/
2 ) In year 2008 Davids group became concerned that nobody had done anything for 8 years after the above discovery even though 6000 people were dying daily in Africa and Asia and decided to construct the machine based on Professor Lai's research paper and took it to Ghana for testing.
The pictures you see are of the machine using Oscillating Magnetic Fields to treat malaria patients.The patient simply sits inside the machine for a couple of hours and can read a book ,watch tv ,sleep,read a newspaper,have dinner and even have sex with his partner although it will be a bit tight inside the machine.
Take your time and examine the pictures carefully at high magnification.
The results of the Ghana trip are summarized here:-"Now our first study is finished and 26 patients were treated. Out of the 26 patients, all except one became negative with the magnetic treatment! One felt worse the day after treatment started and decided to go for medication instead, so he dropped out of the study. The other 25 patients all became negative. And the ones who did not have high levels of parasites, were negative right after the first 60 minutes of treatment! This is so fast that we do not really have an explanation of how it could work so quickly. But the results are nothing short of sensational".
http://health-and-politics.blogspot.co.uk//health-great-ma
3 ) In 2011 Mary Thompson, Department of Physics & Dr. Robert Brown, Department of Physics of Case Western Reserve University and Dr. Brian Grimberg, Center for Global Health and Disease, CWRU School of Medicine published a research pape.It is called:-
" Plasmodium falciparum Response to Oscillating Weak Magnetic Fields"
It validated and confirmed Professor's Lai year 2000 research findings.
You can download it free here:-
http://www.phys.cwru.edu/undergrad/Senior%20Projects/papers/papers2011/Thompson_Brown_2011%20S.pdf
Read it a few times and it will allow you to construct the machine using standard equipment found in most collages and universities science labs.
No new complex,expensive parts are required and the device essentially consists of coils of wire connected to a function generator.
4 ) In 2012 Paul Diament and Ilya Trakht did much more detailed research and took out a patent on this application of using oscillating magnetic fields to disrupt the malaria parasites reproductive cycle and studying their effects.
A patent application involves considerable hard work in writing up and presentation.A patent in the U.S.A costs $12000 plus $8000 in attorney/lawyers fees.So to spend so much money on a patent the researchers have to be convinced of their research findings.
Here is the detailed patent:-
https://www.google.com/patents/US20140039240
In this patent the researchers explore different
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