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 I. "Scientists who track flu fear  new, powerful strains"
January 18, 2000 from  CNN.com 

In this story: Influenza has deadly history 
Researchers track global movement ATLANTA (CNN) -- As the United States and Europe battle yet another cold and flu season, scientists are having more trouble tracking and predicting where and when the next strain will pop up. As global travel becomes easier, the highly  contagious virus can now hitch a quick ride to any part of the world at any time of the year, disrupting what has been a predictable pattern. "We are very worried we will have a  worldwide pandemic of influenza that will affect probably 40 percent of the world's  population," said Dr. Steven Mostow of the University of Colorado. Mostow said the  number of people killed from such a wave of influenza could rival some of the worst  outbreaks in modern times.

Influenza has a deadly history In the late 19th century, more than 20 million  people worldwide died as a result of the flu. In 1917, flu outbreaks killed more people  than those who died during World War I. In 1968, a wave of the Hong Kong flu claimed some 700,000 lives. "We will never be able to control the flu like we control polio, like we control smallpox," said Mostow. "Because the flu virus isn't stable. It mutates. And it is smarter than we are."

Researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization track movement and mutations of each flu outbreak as they travel around the globe. They do this to help them decide which strains to attack with each year's flu vaccine.

Researchers track global movement Normally, the tracking of a strain begins in China, where scientists believe influenza outbreaks begin. Flu pops up in areas where humans and animals live in close contact, with birds passing an avian form of the flu to pigs. Elements of that strain are eventually passed to people. The flu commonly moves from China east across Asia to Alaska, where it works its way south into the heart of North America. "It then mutates and moves through the U.S. over a several-week period," said Mostow, "jumps the Atlantic and goes into western Europe, England, France and Germany, Switzerland, et cetera." In June, July and August, flu trackers monitor strains that are then usually circulating in the Earth's Southern Hemisphere. "It jumps below the equator, showing up in Africa, South America, Australia and New Zealand," Mostow said. A new parent strain of influenza has emerged about every 100 years, according to experts. The current troublemaker, known as the Sydney virus, is a mutation of its parent strain, the notorious Hong Kong flu, which claimed so many victims 30 years ago. "The problem is," said the CDC's Dr. Nancy Cox, "we can't predict when it will occur. As one of my colleagues said, the influenza clock is ticking, but we don't know what time it is." Health Correspondent Holly Firfer contributed to this report.

 


II. Application of Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation Technology (UBIT) for Treatment  of  Bloodborne Viruses and Auto-immune Diseases

Antivirol manufacture involves several steps to introduce energy information into liquid crystal water molecules prior to ingestion.  Water appears to be able to store information carried on various energy fields such as electric, magnetic, photonic, sonic.  This forms part of the basis of Homeopathy (succussion).  One of these steps (UV irradiation of the water while in an open state) is based on an innovative method of inactivating bloodborne viruses using ultraviolet irradiation called UBI therapy.  This process has shown impressive clinical results in treating hepatitis, HIV, and other currently untreatable viruses.  UBI offers a potential breakthrough in the treatment of viral diseases and bacteria, and is nontoxic, uses no drugs, and even has FDA certification, and thus is available now for use. Antivirol has the advantage that it is orally or topically ingested, does not involve intravenous blood, is more safe, convenient, effective and economical, and like most homeopathic remedies can store the specific antimicrobial information for several months.

History:  Ultraviolet blood irradiation first evolved in the early I930s as a means to treat persons afflicted with the poliovirus which was causing considerable anguish and fear similar to the advent of the HIV in the 1980s and continuing.   Then in the 1950s the Salk vaccine wiped out polio in the U.S. and, as a result of this fact and other reasons, this process fell in disuse. This process has now been developed to new levels by Antivirol scientists using vastly improved technical and medical tools.
Researchers in Russia have used this process to treat HIV with impressive results   Improvements have been noted in HIV-infected patients in terms of CD4 T cells, leucocytes, etc.  Ultraviolet blood irradiation therapy (UBIT) is currently FDA approved (and the treatment of choice) for cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) (Taylor & Gasparro, 1992). Using a technique based on extensive historical experience with PUVA therapy in dermatology, Edelson and his group at Yale have developed a sophisticated UBlT method involving pretreatment with psolaren, extracorporeal leukopheresis, UV-A irradiation of the white blood cell fraction, and reinfusion (Edelson, 1987). This process has been given the name"photopheresis."  In the current listings of world medical literature at the National Library of Medicine on UBIT (excluding photopheresis) there are over 100 articles, and all of these are in the Soviet literature. Like Knott, it appears that the Soviets have applied UBIT to a wide variety of conditions, but only over the past two decades (Arutiunov, 1988).

Currently:  UBIT  is now available and FDA certified for use in the U.S and is being further researched  under a CRADA (Cooperative Research and Development Agreement) with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories of Berkeley, California.  Steps are now being taken to arrange research protocols at several major university medical research centers on both the East and West coasts of the U.S.  Focus will be on treatment of HIV, hepatitis, malaria and those viruses immune to current antibiotics.
Photopheresis is currently undergoing clinical trials at centers around the county for the treatment of systemic sclerosis, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, autoimmune insulin-dependent diabetes, systemic lupus erythematosis, myasthenia gravis, graft versus host disease, pemphigus vulgaris, and HIV associated disease (Edelson, 1991; Bisaccia et al, 1990). The major drawbacks to photopheresis are that the technique is cumbersome and costly; a single treatment occupies patient and skilled technician for upwards of five hours.  Historically, the Knott technique of UBlT (Knott, 1948) was applied extensively and with excellent results during the 1930s, 40s, and 50s for the treatment of a wide variety of conditions. There are published reports on its use in bacterial diseases, including septicemias, pneumonias, peritonitis, wound infections; viral infections including acute and chronic hepatitis, atypical pneumonias, poliomyelitis, encephalitis, mumps, measles, mononucleosis, and herpes; circulatory conditions including thrombophlebitis, peripheral vascular arsenal disease, and diabetic ulcer; overwhelming toxemias, non-healing wounds and delayed union of fractures, rheumatoid arthritis, and a number of others (Barger & Knott, 1950).

Mechanism:  Ultraviolet blood irradiation therapy (UBIT), or intravenous ultraviolet, raises the resistance of the host and is therefore able to control many disease processes. A fundamental effect of ultraviolet blood irradiation is to "energize" the biochemical and physiological defenses of the body by the introduction of ultraviolet energy into fluids which are later ingested into the bloodstream.  Some of the success may, in part, be effective by producing small amounts of ozone,  however in Silver-Max, a greater effect seems to be due to unique photo-activation of water molecules in the presence of special magnetic and electric fields and their unique frequencies.  There are many effects of ultraviolet light on water, colloids and blood components that may be involved in clinical effectiveness. The interaction of various wavelengths of ultraviolet with living tissues is complex and constitutes an entire area of specialization for photobiologists (Coohill, 1991).

Results:  The efficacy of this method is attested to by the remarkable and consistent recovery of patients with a wide variety of unrelated diseases.  In addition, UBI and Silver-Max have never caused any adverse side effects nor have they ever worsened any disease in any patient, regardless of age group, race or sex and regardless of the number of blood irradiation treatments administered.  There have not been any complications related to UBlT during long-term followup.  Clinical improvement occurred on an average of 19.2 days after institution of blood irradiation therapy. Sixty percent of the patients were considered clinically recovered and able to return to their occupation in two weeks or less.  In one study, cyanosis was cleared in hypoxic patients and increases in oxygenation were measured.  Clinical Results of Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation in Treating HlV-Positive Persons were obtained by using the PCR Diagnostic test (Polymerase Change Reaction) which accurately determines change in viral activity in 1995. Each treatment of UBI reduced PCR by 50%-75%. This is considered a very significant reduction.

Viruses:  Viral illnesses, given their comparative resistance to chemotherapeutic control, have emerged over the past several decades as a major challenge for medicine. In addition, immune system dysfunctions are increasingly recognized as playing a major"host factor" role in many disease processes, including cancer.
In hematology, immunology, and blood banking, there is a long tradition of exploring the possibilities of ultraviolet to produce beneficial changes in blood components UV has long been known to inactivate viruses while preserving their ability, to be used as antigens in the preparation of vaccines (Levinson, 1945). The mechanism proposed being that the viral genome is more UV-damage sensitive than viral surface antigens. Thus, the virus can be killed by damage to its nucleic acids while, at the same time, leaving antigenic surface components (proteins, glycoproteins, and/or fatty acids) relatively intact.
Most viruses are quite UV-sensitive (Hanson, 1992), however viral inactivation using conventional photopheresis sufficient for the purposes of the blood banking industry (six or more logs of killing) is not feasible without intolerable levels of damage to formed elements in the blood (Fratantoni, 1992; Dodd, 1992).

Benefits:  Silver-Max has benefits which avoid the undesirable effects of "extracorporeal PUVA".  Among these are mutations, inhibition of DNA synthesis, changes in gene expression of various sorts, increased intracellular Ca+2, the elaboration of cytokines IL1, IL6, and TNF, effects on prostaglandins, and a variety of cell surface changes (Taylor & Gasparro, 1992; Andreu et al. 1992).

Conclusion:  In summation, this process represents a low cost, nontoxic, pain free way to treat a variety of viral and bacterial diseases. The key advantage is the low cost in doing so, which could result in considerable savings to the health industry. Future plans are in preparation to apply Silver-Max to untreatable conditions such as Alzheimer's, sickle cell anemia, and E. coli bacteria.

A fuller article with Bibliography about  UBIT is available for reading from The Academy for Future Science at http://www.affs.org