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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.
Are the mosquitoes DDT-resistant?
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
that there are just too many people. The Earth is a self-correcting system.
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?
Just wait til Bill Gates begins twiddling with these mosquitoes at the genetic level - as threatened. What could possibly go wrong, for the Sorcerer's Apprentice?
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
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?
We could get along without square tomatoes, but THIS is the reason we need GMO.
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.
You do realize that Malaria is a protozoan, not a bacteria, and definitely not a virus. Vaccines are only for viruses - to prime your immune system to react and eradicate the virus when it encounters it, not to treat the infection. Not for bacteria and definitely not for protozoan. Antibiotics are for the *treatment* of bacterial infections and are not a preventative (cleanliness is the preventative). Protozoan, like Malaria, treatments are basically toxins/poisons that are poisonous to the protozoan more than they are poisonous to you (like Quinine). So, what does "Anti-Vaxxers" have to do with it? Throwing things like that out just gives the anti-sciece crowd ammunition.
I wish so fucking I could mod you up right now. I even logged in to see if I had mod points!
> But because it is cheap, drug companies don't like it.
Because drug companies never convolute simple compounds and make it exorbitantly expensive to access (eg Brand Coumadin vs Generic Sodium Warafin).
If MMS (hey look, someone tried to brand it already!) actually cured malaria, drug companies would sell it. It's not like maladria is going to be eradicated (if it was, they would raise the price!).
Or because or does not work and is toxic.
Just watch the video. It has all the hallmarks of a scam. If it works do a real trial instead of posting unverified videos.
Wasn't that the plan? I guess that commitment went out the window with charging retail prices for the new Windows OS...
Genetic alarmism is so fucking tiring. Do you think that if someone does genemod mosquitoes to reduce malarial load on humans, that they won't be tested? "gene mod goes wrong, everything ruined" is a movie plot. The reality is very likely to be less human suffering.
Is it resistant to gin & tonic?
"If anything can go wrong, it will." - Murphy
You do realize that you are completely wrong?
Vaccines are not only for viruses - the very common vaccine Di-Per-Te is a nice sample - it is for three different bacterias.
Protozoal vaccines are also in use eg. Nobivac Piro.
Vaccines can be made for every infective agent that represents antibodies - or it's antibodies are represented on cells that are infected by this agent.
In one aspect you are right: currently there is no vaccine for Malaria.
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.
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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
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.
Great, wipe out another pollinator and then wonder why the environment is deteriorating. You do realize that male mosquitoes often live on pollen and are a pollinator, as well as many types of mosquito don't bother people.
As stupid as indiscriminately using DDT for everything until resistance was bred instead of treating it more like the nuclear option. We're currently doing the same now with anti-biotics.
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!
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...
Need Mercedes parts ?
You do realize that male mosquitoes often live on pollen and are a pollinator
So, only kill the females.
Best to limit it to only the most threatening ones, eg carriers of malaria, yellow fever etc. The over parents idea is like wiping out all bees because of Africanized killer bees.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism
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.”
Do you think that if someone does genemod mosquitoes to reduce malarial load on humans, that they won't be tested?
I think they'll be just as well-tested as GMO crops, which means one or two generations, slap them on the ass, and send them out the door.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Well, they do seem to be an important food source for lots of insect eating animals. Birds, bats,...
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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