virus
ebola In 1976, virus was first detected near the Ebola river in Congo. It is thought to have originated in fruit bats. (Some african tribes have a culture to eat bats meat) Virus can be eliminated by high temperature, and soap and cleanser can prevent from epidemic. Virus can still survive within the dead body, so body should be burned after the death. There is no proven vaccine or cure Incubation period is two to 21 days Fatality rate can reach 90% - but current outbreak has mortality rate of about 70% Touch - contact from saliva and blood is fatal
A cartoon about Ebola by Andra Carrilho how the media seems to treat epidemics differently, depending on where they occur, and to whom.
shigeru ban paper emergency shelter
“Do not touch anything�
Washing hands and improving hygiene is one of the best ways to fight the virus
colalife colalife encourages coca cola to carry simple medicines, supply chain of the medicine
virus movies, references
outbreak (1995)
the cassandra crossing (1976)
Similar symptom, phenomenon with ebola virus, a plot of government and army, human’s selfishness
infected Swedish terrorist who plagues a train's passengers as they head to a broken Garabit Viaduct arch bridge to Cassandra
zombie survival guide (Max Brooks)
snowpiercer (2013)
contagion (2011)
only survivors from climate changes, a class system is installed, with the elites inhabiting the front of the train and the poor inhabiting the tail
collapsing of modern sociey, rumor, mistrust , weak and vicious origin of human-being
12 monkeys (1995) time travel to solve virus
the happening (2013)
perfect sense (2011)
a cryptic neurotoxin that causes anyone exposed to it to commit suicide (natural disaster)
Loosing senses by virus, sorrow → loosing smell, fear → sense of smell, and vision “Life goes on”
virus (1980)
blindness (2008) human desire even under the virus which make people blind, small society in the quarantine camp, human nature
A military-engineered virus, released during a plane crash, kills the entire human population. The only survivors are scientists in Antarctica, who desperately try to find a cure and save what is left of the planet from further destruction
Protecting virus without vaccine
BERLIN PATIENT TIMOTHY RAY BROWN, CURED OF HIV Brown's Commentary describes the bold experiment of using a stem cell donor who was naturally resistant to HIV infection to treat the acute myeloid leukemia (AML) diagnosed 10 years after he became HIV-positive. The stem cell donor had a specific genetic mutation called CCR5 Delta 32 that can protect a person against HIV infection. The virus is not able to enter its target, the CD4 cells. After the stem cell transplant, Brown was able to stop all antiretroviral treatment and the HIV has not returned.
SYTHETIC GENES MAY OFFER VIRUS PROTECTION WITHOUT VACCINE The New York Times reports that “last month, a team of scientists announced what could prove to be an enormous step forward in the fight against H.I.V.” “Scientists at Scripps Research Institute said they had developed an artificial antibody that, once in the blood, grabbed hold of the virus and inactivated it. The molecule can eliminate H.I.V. from infected monkeys and protect them from future infections.” “But this treatment is not a vaccine, not in any ordinary sense. By delivering synthetic genes into the muscles of the monkeys, the scientists are essentially re-engineering the animals to resist disease. Researchers are testing this novel approach not just against H.I.V., but also Ebola, malaria, influenza and hepatitis.”
SARS AND KIMCHI Since 2003, when SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) rolled across Asia, Koreans remained largely unaffected. As day and national leaflet that,Kimchi has been to support the status of transported natural prevention and cure of SARS. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4347443.stm With its antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral properties, it is evident that this immune-boosting herb is nothing to turn your nose up to. And it's suspected that the chemical compound allicilin in garlic is the real champion inhibiting growth and even killing the germs. http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/naturalmedicine/herbal-remedies/natural-flu-remedies.htm https://americannationaluniversity.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/swine-flu -sars-and-kimchi/
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SMALLPOX AND MILKMAID Milk maids were traditionally reputed to have great complexions. Taking note of this, Dr. Edward Jenner, an 18th century English medic discovered that infection with cowpox, conferred immunity to the much more severe variola, or smallpox. Milk maids often acquired cowpox, a much milder ailment, in the course of their employment and hence rarely suffered the disfiguring facial scars which were almost the norm in members of 18th century society. Jenner began a program of vaccination (incidentally derived from the Latin for cow) with cowpox and thus was the first person to develop a safe and effective inoculation against smallpox. Shortly after he sent a batch of vaccine to his good friend Dr. John Clinch, a medical missionary in Trinity, Newfoundland, who subsequently performed the first smallpox vaccination in North America. KILTS AND SMALLPOX In the 19th century the Highland Regiments of the British were reputed to be hardy tropical troops. This was due in part to the avid inoculation program their medical officers initiated, though the airy kilt also made the Highlanders much more resistant to horrid tropical fungal infections than their woolen trousered compatriots.
SALT AND SMALLPOX On the brink of death, two of the Assiniboine people made their way into a small valley in Saskatchewan and discovered a strangely colored lake, later christened Little Manitou Lake, the Lake of the Healing Waters. One member of the pair crawled to the lake and took a mouthful of water. Spitting it out as undrinkable, he crawled into the water to cool his fever, and instead of sinking found himself unusually buoyant. He floated in the lake for almost 24 hours, then, feeling much better, he returned and dragged his friend into Little Manitou as well. Both made an uncomplicated recovery. The lake was shown to have an unusually high salt content, approximating that of the Dead Sea, itself known for its healing properties. Little Manitou was later found to have high concentrations of magnesium, potassium, iron, silica, sulfur and mineral salts. Perhaps these agents, in contact with the smallpox skin lesions, had some sort of detoxifying effect. In subsequent years, people would cart away the lake’s waters in barrels, touting its ability to heal cuts and sores quickly and effectively. In the 1920s and 1930s, a spa industry would develop on Little Manitou and those seeking healing today can visit the Manitou Springs Resort Spa, in Watrous, Saskatachewan. http://lifeasahuman.com/2011/feature/medical-tales-of-smalpox-milk-maids-kilts-and-salt/
SANITATION ROBOT A few companies have released remotely operated sanitation robots that could actually replace humans at times of greatest potential infection. These robots are generally tasked with cleaning, but a robot that can carry and bury bodies has already been developed for Tokyo’s fire department and is now being considered for use in the current
MILWAUKEE PROTOCAL AND RABIES The Milwaukee protocol is an experimental course of treatment of an infection of rabies in a human being. The treatment involves putting the patient into a chemically induced coma and administering antiviral drugs. It was developed and named by Rodney Willoughby, Jr., M.D., following the successful treatment of Jeanna Giese. Giese, a teenager from Wisconsin, became the first patient known to have survived symptomatic rabies without receiving the rabies vaccine. The Milwaukee protocol is sometimes referred to as the Wisconsin protocol. Induced coma treatment Medical history has shown most rabies deaths are caused by temporary brain dysfunction with little to no damage occurring to the brain itself. Using this information, Willoughby's team devised an experimental treatment for rabies. Giese's parents agreed to the experimental treatment. Willoughby's goal was to put Giese into an induced coma to essentially protect her from her brain, with the hope she would survive long enough for her immune system to produce the antibodies to fight off the virus. Giese was given a mixture of ketamine and midazolam to suppress brain activity, and the antiviral drugs ribavirin and amantadine, while waiting for her immune system to produce antibodies to attack the virus. Giese was brought out of the coma after six days, once signs of the immune system's progress became apparent.
CURCUMIN FROM CURRY Curcumin, found in turmeric, stopped the potentially deadly Rift Valley Fever virus from multiplying in infected cells, says Aarthi Narayanan, lead investigator on a new study and a research assistant professor in Mason’s National Center for Biodefense and Infectious Diseases. Mosquito-borne Rift Valley Fever virus (RVF) is an acute, fevercausing virus that affects domestic animals such as cattle, sheep and goats, as well as humans. Results of the study were publishedthis month in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. https://newsdesk.gmu.edu/2012/08/turmeric-spices-up-virus-study/
CURE FOR THE SPANISH FLU “Cures” for the Spanish flu included drinking whiskey, smoking cigars, eating milk toast, gargling with salt water, getting fresh air, and partaking of interesting concoctions like “Grippura.” Some doctors doused their patients with icy water while others “bled” their patients. Yet other doctors tried surgery by slicing open a patient’s chest, spreading his ribs, and extracting pus and blood from the pleural cavity (the cavity surrounding the lungs), which was almost always fatal in flu victims.e
CONCALESCENT THERAPIES Convalescent therapy was first used for a young woman infected with Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire) in 1976 – the year the virus first emerged. The woman was treated with plasma from a person who survived infection with the closely-related Marburg virus. She had less clinical bleeding than other Ebola patients, but died within days. During the 1995 Ebola outbreak in Kikwit, Democratic Republic of Congo, whole blood collected from recovered patients was administered to eight patients. Seven of the eight recovered. However, as the study did not include a control group, no firm conclusions could be reached concerning whether the treatment alone was responsible for the favourable clinical outcome or even contributed to this outcome in some way. In the current outbreak, convalescent therapies have been used in a few patients. The numbers are too small to support any conclusions about efficacy. In one well-known case, an American doctor, who became infected while working in Monrovia, Liberia, received whole blood from a recovered patient while still in Monrovia. He likewise fully recovered, though it is not possible to determine whether that recovery can be attributed to convalescent therapy, the administration of the experimental medicine, ZMapp, or the excellent supportive care he received in the United States. In another well-documented case, a foreign medical doctor, who was infected in Sierra Leone, has been improving following outstanding supportive care. He did not receive treatment with any experimental therapy. In yet another case, an American doctor, who became infected while working in Liberia, was subsequently treated in the US. As part of that treatment, he received a transfusion of convalescent plasma from blood donated by the first case mentioned above. The infusion was well-tolerated. Yesterday, he was declared by his attending physicians and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to be “virus-free”. He is weak but fully recovered. Again, as he also received the experimental medicine TKM-EBV, together with outstanding supportive care, it is impossible to know which component of care contributed most – or at all – to his recovery. The hospital where he was treated will share clinical lessons learned with doctors working in West Africa.