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Katie McKissick is a former high school biology teacher turned science writer and cartoonist based in Los Angeles, CA. Her first book is called What’s in Your Genes? and will be in bookstores December 2013. Her work can be found at www.beatricebiologist.com. Follow on Twitter @beatricebiology.
Katie McKissick is a former high school biology teacher turned science writer and cartoonist based in Los Angeles, CA. Her first book is called What’s in Your Genes? and will be in bookstores December 2013. Her work can be found at www.beatricebiologist.com. Follow on Twitter @beatricebiology.
Human T cell (blue) under attack by HIV (yellow) (Source: NIH)
In the midst of what has been dubbed “ebolanoia,” many are flashing back to the response (or lack thereof in some cases) to the rise of AIDS in the 1980s and 90s. In a recent post on Absolutely Maybe, Hilda Bastian describes the rise and fall of the panic surrounding HIV/AIDS in Australia. It provides needed perspective on the varied reactions people have to diseases they don’t fully understand. But ebolanoia has taken on a life of its own in the mass media and psyches of people in the United States: everything from crippling fear despite never having come within 1,000 miles of the virus, to “sexy ebola nurse” Halloween costumes (that I sincerely hope are just a photoshopped internet joke).
About the Author: Katie McKissick is a former high school biology teacher turned science writer and cartoonist based in Los Angeles, CA. Her first book is called What’s in Your Genes? and will be in bookstores December 2013. Her work can be found at www.beatricebiologist.com. Follow on Twitter @beatricebiology.
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If it is stupid idea…why not to find out?
Killing virus:
From outside
1.To expose human body, infected by a virus, to very cold condition (cryo chambers for example) – time of exposure depends on condition of a patient
2.Then expose a human body to hot condition (for example using dry sauna)
3.Repeat process with brakes to recover
From inside
More effective way would be to lower down body temperature by drugs and keep it for a while in this condition (but avoid hypothermia) a few hours minimum.
Then increase body temperature to 39-40 degrees C and keep it in this condition for a few hours.
The whole process should be repeated if necessary.
Cold conditions-virus deactivation Hot condition – removing virus from a body
In the Africa (lack of cryo chambers) you could assemble mobile hospitals next to big meat warehouses (freezers) and carry on treatment once in the freezer then in the sun.
Once again treating from inside (lowering/increasing temp. by drugs) would be more effective.
Link to thisxxxxxjg- You’re kidding, right? Your set of ostensible “treatments” for ANY virus is beyond ludicrous.
“Next to big meat warehouses”? Really?
Don’t bother: “answering.” You’re fired. Clean out your locker.
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