Avian influenza: Myth and Reality

Have you ever wondered how people evolve? The new organs don't appear on human, wings don't grow... Do we get smarter? Well, we certainly need to know that intelligence is inherited, and examples in favor of this version quite a bit. Of course, Francis Galton explains the high, creativity kind of Darwin, who gave a lot of famous scientists, the fact that it originates from umneyshey women in Europe - our compatriot Yaroslav the Wise, daughter of Anna, but statistical analysis of the situation, but rather on the side of Robert Burns who wrote:

There are many known relatives
But he is not in high esteem,
like ancient Roman road
Lost in the swamp.

Yes, we do not mind the criteria and today every schoolboy knows that the matter consists of atoms, but not smarter than he is the creator of the poem "On the Nature of Things" Lucretia Carr. Artist, painted an ancient cave, you need to compare with Raphael, and the unknown inventor of the wheel - at least with Korolev.
And yet time goes on, and each of its second, as shown by numerous studies, leaves a trace on living things. In what is seen on a scale commensurate with eternity? What are the physiological characteristics distinguish this man from his predecessors. Let us turn to history.

What's wrong with leprosy?

"And there was a cry in Novgorod Pskovians ... wake of the guest will catch, then the boundary lines for the city vivesti and burn along with the goods "- read in one of the chronicles. That fight against epidemics, but to save them failed. Plague, registered in Europe by nomadic warriors in 1339 for three hundred years old took 75 million human lives were lost while the animals and even plants, causing famine. Equally devastating were cholera, leprosy and many other diseases, retreated into the past nediagnostiruemymi. This is usually explained the success of allopathic medicine, but it's not quite true. Framework for prevention of plague have been developed in 1894, when the "Black Death" dramatically waned, cholera, also passed the position long before they were discovered effective means against it. Leprosy is not curable today, but in Europe it was not easy, but in the XI century there were 20 000 leprosariums which found shelter millions affected. In place of what has been plagued in the past, replaced by new diseases: SARS, a few years ago just as excited the world community, as today, bird flu, scrapie, Legionnaires' disease, MDR-TB, AIDS ... There were some strange diseases with vague symptoms.
Doctors last note of the fact that any epidemic fell "spots": used to separate the street remained intact at the time when other cities and villages around the dying. Why? Now we can answer this question. Pathogens penetrate ailments, entering into chemical reaction with the protrusions on the surface of cells that make up living organisms on the basis of a "lock-jimmy": no appendages - and people do not succumb to the disease. Naturally, that left to live people with certain characteristics of the cell, transferring them to their offspring.
We all - mutants, but not in the sense that used to understand this word: change, by organizing, in accordance with the terms of the environment, our cellular and molecular structures. It is also constantly changing, adapting to us, the microcosm, with whom we interact. We have to get used to the fact that the disease - it is absolutely inevitable manifestation of the organization of life in time, what is the evolutionary process that the nature of good or evil INE, and assess its driving forces solely in terms of human interests is to condemn oneself to fatal mistakes. And there would have to rethink the role of those we are accustomed to thinking savage their enemies - viruses.

About the virus put in a poor word

So, the flu. For the first time the disease in the territory of the Russian Empire in 1886-1887 he was registered., Fell down on the first pandemic 1889-1890 gg., Then the number of deaths increased, reaching a peak in 1918, the outbreak of the ACL, "Spanish", which destroyed 25 million people - more than died from his injuries at the front during the First World War for four years. According to the well-known in his time epidemiologist Greenwood, the greatest evil of the "Spanish flu" is that it gave rise to some process in the human body and the 'flu is with us now does not leave, "" we did not manage to regain lost ground. "
And do not succeed. After first influenza pandemic is not coincided with the rapid development of scientific and technological progress, in particular vehicles, clogging the atmosphere by industrial exhaust. Then, in the forests around the industrial cities were dark birch moth butterfly: an extremely rare mutation previously the norm for survival. The influenza virus - a mechanism adaptation of the body to the effects of technological progress, from which we will not give up.
In the human DNA found more than 1,200 prints of the genetic programs of bacteria and viruses - a reflection of the material traversed by the evolutionary path, and at the same time, "memory" of lessons learned, necessary for survival in the future, for the cyclical development - the law of our world. With the help of viruses by adaptation of a living organism to changing conditions in the external (and, perhaps, and internal) environment, without which survival is impossible.
Outside the host cell the virus - a completely inert, education, crystallizes as kitchen salt: a plain matter of inheritance of DNA or RNA surrounded by a protein shell and sometimes without it. Such yourself "genetic message", not even having his own metabolism. "Reads" of his cell, where it seeks to integrate into the DNA, creating a new integrative system: what we call disease - this is just the tip of a huge iceberg of interaction between macro-and micro-world, a catastrophe in which no interest, none of the parties. In light of recent discoveries, it is clear that we must fundamentally change the tactics of the struggle for human health, moving from trying to "pull out the disease from the root" to the tactics of collaboration with the factors causing it to turn the evolutionary processes in the right direction from the position of the person pony mania that occurs in our body.
Because the flu virus can not "kill", as it can be found in the medical instructions: staying in the environment, and he does not pretend to be alive. Antibiotics or other medicines it can scatter as typographic font, but in contrast to the printing type, he will meet again in the cell, creating something a mature, focused not only on the condition of today but also tomorrow. And the more the cell will be a variety of viral particles, the greater the danger that it will come out of the new entity to which the human body may be unprepared. The cells were found even helper viruses, harvested shells for these tumors. The question arises: where are they taking it for a shell of a genetic program to collect! Here we approached the problem of avian influenza.

"Chicken Flu - a Spaniard? Then live quietly

Why so scared it was bird flu at a time when humanity gets adapted to antibiotics tuberculosis, the adults began to suffer from measles, abruptly, "rejuvenated" the cancer, not to mention the fact that the number of cases increases dramatically to them? The human body is really a virus is found, similar to avian H5N1, but rather whether the two particles to form a lethal recombinant us overcome all the barriers posed by nature? Hardly.
Panic in the world began when, as a group of researchers led by Jeffrey Taubergerom from the Institute of Molecular Pathology Armed Forces (Washington) has published the results of reading the nucleotide sequence virusaH5N1. Robots have begun in 1996 - before the Hong Kong outbreak of avian flu, which killed six people in the grave of the 18 patients. Curious about the historical aspect of the features of the human body, Tauberger researched collection of samples of lung tissue samples of American soldiers who died of "Spanish flu". They are the fragments of the virus out of 10 genes, and their reconstruction dragged on for ten years. Tauberger concluded that the H5N1 virus in the process of evolution has gained a lot in common with the causative agent of "Spanish flu", in particular in its shell appeared a group of atoms capable of reacting with the corresponding group of atoms of a human cell membranes.
But - if this mutation? Should probably be a pandemic pathogen genetic program in 1913, inscribed in human DNA, the memory of the experience our bodies adapt to the virus - a carrier of genetic information.
Where the raging "Hispanic," were those who initially did not have in their cell membranes, "pick" needed to get into it a virus. And, therefore, even in the case of recombination of avian virus with human disease can only be selected in a lightweight form, but - in any case a pandemic.
Unfortunately, the most compelling reason is the injection of passion factor, which wrote American Donella Meadows: "In making the selection sort, guided by the ability of species to evolve and grow in their natural habitat. Farmers in the tens of thousands of years, were selected that could feed people. Now the criterion for selection - ability to patent and sell. "
Unfortunately, this desire to sell more drugs, approving their aggressive advertising, and cause as to why pandemic influenza is inevitable. Not the bird, and human. But - this is a topic for another article.

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