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Swine flu. Bird flu. The media has everyone worrying about epidemics and pandemics. Yet there is nothing said about one of the great communicable diseases of all time: the plague. The Black Death. No, it is not extinct. There are new cases of plague in the United States every year, totaling over 400 cases since 1950.
Continued...| Posted on Oct 28, 2009 by Sharon in ViralResearch and | Permalink | Comments(0) |
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Six years ago this month, we walked out of a Florida adoption agency completely unaware how deeply our life would be impacted and changed. On that day, our son was doubtless saved from a condemned life that would have never provided enough emotional or intellectual stimulation, structure, regular routines and pathetically little in the way of nutrition for his body or soul.
I’ve never been one to need people to “get me”. It’s one of my quirky character traits that no doubt keep me strong in my faith in Christ. I have to say, though, when it came down to my son and having to deal with a multitude of “professionals” (yes, I’m using that term very loosely), I have finally found someone who “gets it”, “gets” me.
Continued...| Posted on Apr 23, 2007 by Sharon in Autism and ViralResearch | Permalink | Comments(1) |
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Source: http://www.christineprapas.com/jeff_jones/jj3.html
Doesn’t this Jeff Jones painting look fresh, wholesome – great country air, fresh sunshine, rich green grass thriving with nutrients, crawling with good, juicy bugs enjoyed by the free-range poultry, basking in the glow of the Good Country Life, just the way the good Lord intended? It’s the idyllic picture, embedded in our brains by expensive advertising campaigns funded by food processors and factory farms. They’ve trained us to feel good about eating their product with claims it is, “lean! plump! juicy!” – an item we feel good about feeding our family. But for the majority of chickens, their lives stand in stark contrast to their country cousins, for theirs is one of misery, from beginning to end. The answer isn’t to become a vegetarian, but rather, to become better informed about our food – how it’s raised, and yes, even how it is killed. And inbetween life and death, there are many issues that directly relate to us, such as the Bird Flu Virus, H5N1, receiving so much media attention. The attached article is a thoughtful, provocative piece, raising good points as to why H5N1 is the least of our problems and, more to the point, why H5N1 shouldn’t cause us fear. – Sharon
Continued...| Posted on Apr 14, 2006 by Sharon in ViralResearch and | Permalink | Comments(0) |
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As with politics, some of the best information comes from abroad – anything outside the borders of, at times, Not-So-Good-USA. Oh, Toby Keith would be upset with me. I digress.
Here’s a good general report from an Australian psychologist regarding various treatments for autism including diet, etc., and possible causes: http://home.iprimus.com.au/rboon/ExploringAutism.htm
Continued...| Posted on Mar 25, 2006 by Sharon in ViralResearch and | Permalink | Comments(0) |
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Again, along the lines of immune-system response and Autism, here are more links and articles:
The Center For Complex Infectious Disease (CCID) has performed viral cultures on blood samples from well over 100 autistic children. In greater than 80% of the samples, a marked cytopathic effect (CPE) has occurred. The strongly positive CPE is similar to that induced by “stealth-adapted” viruses. The term stealth was chosen because certain cytopathic viruses seemingly lacked components targeted by the cellular immune defense mechanisms. This conclusion has been substantiated in detailed DNA sequencing studies conducted on a prototype stealth virus. This particular stealth virus originated from an African green monkey simian cytomegalovirus (SCMV), and presumably was derived from an SCMV-contaminated batch of poliovaccine. While the virus lacks genetic sequences coding for the major target antigens for anti-cytomegalovirus cell mediated immunity, it has acquired many additional genes of both cellular and bacterial origins.
Continued...| Posted on Mar 25, 2006 by Sharon in ViralResearch and | Permalink | Comments(0) |
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In the seemingly eternal search for answers, I ran across an interesting post from http://www.healthboards.com/autism/4675.html
This post is interesting to me because it was written in 2000, the year Daniel was born, showing a parent already suspicious of the immune system. It’s only been in the past year I’ve seen people more accepting of the immune-system theory. So much of the focus has wrongly been on mercury, which is in immunizations, distracting everyone from other areas of possible causes which have disrupted and perverted the immune system. Here’s the post:
Continued...| Posted on Mar 25, 2006 by Sharon in ViralResearch and | Permalink | Comments(0) |
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It’s common knowledge that Autism Spectrum children are extremely different in their symptoms. Some, like my son, are highly-cognitive, highly-functioning, while others may never speak, never walk. It’s clear to me, in researching bio-medical causes of Autism, that there are any number of ways these children could have become “infected” – in other words, the immune system is somehow involved, probably compromised In Utero, and certainly not helped by some immunizations given in a relatively short time after birth.
Continued...| Posted on Mar 25, 2006 by Sharon in ViralResearch and | Permalink | Comments(2) |
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UC DAVIS STUDY WITH MICE LINKS THIMEROSAL WITH IMMUNE SYSTEM DYSFUNCTION
(Sacramento, Calif.) – A team of cell biologists, toxicologists and
molecular bioscientists at the University of California, Davis, has
published a study connecting thimerosal with disruptions in antigen-presenting cells known as dendritic cells obtained from mice. The study provides the first evidence that dendritic cells show unprecedented sensitivity to thimerosal, resulting in fundamental changes in the immune system’s ability to respond to external factors. The study was published online today and will be available in the July print edition of Environmental Health Perspectives, the peer-reviewed scientific publication of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
| Posted on Mar 24, 2006 by Sharon in ViralResearch and | Permalink | Comments(0) |
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Of late, I’ve been encountering material suggesting further study of the frontal lobe is key in better understanding Autism. -Sharon
Continued...| Posted on Mar 19, 2006 by Sharon in ViralResearch and | Permalink | Comments(0) |
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The last year has been intensely difficult with regards to our son’s health. With the amount of research and investigating I’ve done, it’s left little time for self, little time for “fun”. In fact, if someone were to tell me to “take the afternoon – go have fun”, I’d either crawl into bed for a quiet nap or head straight back to my computer for more research. I don’t feel like fun – not until this is more settled. So in the meantime, I research and once in awhile there are things I find I can do – like installing research-backed AirFree purifiers which incinerate mold and mildew.
For other things I can do, Great Plains Laboratory has tests which may help determine some of the underlying causes of our son’s “behavior” which, at times, has appeared to be in the psychosis realm. I am no longer concerned that he may be schizophrenic, BUT, I am convinced his psychosis “events” were real. The real question now is, is it indicative of a permanent condition OR was it stress-related due to his Autistic inclination towards high anxiety OR could it possibly be from something else – like mold. -Sharon
Continued...| Posted on Mar 18, 2006 by Sharon in ViralResearch and | Permalink | Comments(0) |
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