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picture 1: HIV A virus is not a cell, it’s more like a molecule, and shows behaviour like the molecule in the sense that viruses can crystallize. The shape of viruses also varies. Some look like pencils, some look like spiked golf balls. Composition of T-Even Bacteriophage
Phages were also used in an attempt to destroy bacteria that cause epidemic diseases, but this approach was largely abandoned in the 1940s when antibacterial drugs became available. The possibility of “phage therapy” has recently attracted new interest among medical researchers, however, owing to the increasing threat posed by drug-resistant bacteria. (source: the Columbia encyclopaedia, 2001) Viral infection, what really happens?Most viruses are harmless, and do not cause diseases. But there are viruses that can cause paralysis (polio virus) and even cancer. There are viruses that make you sick by releasing toxics that are the result of their cellular invasion, and others make you sick, because they destroy cells that function to keep your body from getting sick.Let’s see what happens when you catch a cold.
 picture 2 T-Even virus, attacking a cell Now how can we get rid of a virus?Your immune system detects the virus and starts producing a chemical called “pyrogens”. This chemical will raise your body temperature, causing a fever. Because most viruses only become active (start their reproductive cycle) within a certain narrow temperature range, a fever will slow down, or even halt the virus from attacking new host cells. The virus will die down, and you’ll get better.Antibiotics only have a limited use in the fight against viruses. They won’t kill the virus, but they will kill bacteria that – as a result from the viral attack – saw the road cleared to an attack. Sometimes viruses cause inflammatory reactions because the body reacts to the cells that are altered by the virus. In that case medication against inflammatory reactions work to help you feel better. Injections with a small quantity of the virus will cause the immune system to develop antibodies that will attack the virus before it gets a chance to start its destructive reproductive cycle. Immunisation is a powerful tool against viruses, and some viruses even nearly disappeared from the face of the earth trough immunisation, but because the virus can alter its genetics, the possibility that it stays ahead of immunisation is always lurking. Why is HIV different?The HIV virus attacks T-cells in the immune system, eventually causing AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome). There is no such thing as an AIDS virus. HIV progressively destroys the body's ability to fight infections and certain cancers. People diagnosed with AIDS may get life-threatening diseases called opportunistic infections, which are caused by microbes such as viruses or bacteria that usually do not make healthy people sick. In other words: HIV is different, because it directly attacks the body’s ability to regain health.
picture 3 Schematic picture of HIV Can man made viruses wipe out the world’s population?Yes, in theory they can. Scientists have claimed producing new bacteriophages – viruses that attack bacteria for environmental purposes. Of course we should not kid each other. When something can be used as a weapon, some government will jump up and develop it as a weapon. Already groups of people are discussing the possibility of HIV and Ebola being man made in some military laboratory. Only time will tell if this is true and if we are facing doom from viral weapons. Meanwhile we are facing the threat of natural viruses altering their own genetics in an increasingly rapid pace. There is a distinct possibility the Spanish flu disaster of 1918, when millions of people died from a simple influenza, will be repeated in the near future. Some scientists fear that the number of deaths resulting from this new super virus will be many times higher. It could well prove to be a virus for which no immunisation will be possible to develop.It’s really mind baffling that a living dead particle might prove to be the end of us all. Will the zombies get us after all?!? Hans de Vries (dutchie) for Armageddon Online November 2004 Armageddon Online |
