Gert van der Hoek
In Memoriam - Editor, Senior Moderator
May be members with more scientific background than I have can comment on this letter?
Two New Types of Swine - Testing Needed
Monday, 7 September 2009, 3:59 pm
Opinion: Peter Brake
Testing For Swine Needed - Two New Types
To the Editor,
The first mutation of the swine flu happened with 36,000 people catching the disease. The second mutation 70,893 people caught the disease.
Since then, full testing has not been carried out, and we now have another two types of swine flu one in the southern United States with resistance to Tamiflu, and another reportedly placing people in intensive care as this form travels directly to the lungs causing severe illness in otherwise healthy young people.
Scientists concerns are rightfully based around the deaths from a mutation of this disease, New Zealand researchers reported that 79% of people are expected to contract the disease, or, some 5.36 billion people. If the same rate of mutation is expected that means we will experience 150 thousand mutations. We could expect half of these to be more deadly than the current outbreak. We urgently need to investigate why so many mutations are happening.
There is a piece of equipment called an electron spectrometer which can see what micro organisms are doing. I am asking the New Zealand government to buy or lease one. Some US universities currently are using them but not for this purpose.
The testing I am suggesting is on the swine flu virus itself, also mutation agents such as common soil bacteria and a selection of the human bodies’ bacteria. This is important because bacteria attempt mutation in order to eat. They do this naturally, inserting genes in order to produce proteins from which they feed. This process has been shown to have altered other species genome by 12%, over the course of time.
Current scientific research has shown that bacteria sense outside conditions and has categorised 9000 types of bacteria. Researchers estimate that there are 110 billion types of bacteria on Earth. My understanding is that with this level of competition, the surviving bacteria will have evolved to a stage where they sense opportune moments to attempt gene transfer. Such as, when they are aware of other micro organisms having achieved a successful gene insertion.
Genetic engineering employs the use of antibiotics to lower the species barrier to enable the insertion of new genes, into their targeted species. It has been found, as reported by Dr Mae Wan Ho a leader in this field working from a British university, that various antibiotics increase the chances of gene transfer (mutation) up to 10000 times. As yet no antibiotics have been banned from human treatment even though some of these people now have swine flu.
I am aware that antibiotics may destroy the gene transferring bacteria but not the swine flu itself. However, mutations can happen from heat shock and other conditions and the bacteria need not survive after transferring the gene. Please test these antibiotics under all conditions and tell our hospitals what the dangers are.
Further the genetically modified organisms that we are currently eating are likely to also be increasing mutation rates; both GMO’s and antibiotics need to be tested urgently to see what levels of mutations they are causing. Given that vaccines are a weakened virus still capable of mutation these too should be checked to see whether we are increasing or decreasing the risks from this mass medication.
What we are looking for within the experiments is the change in rate of attempted gene transfers by the bacteria. This testing should include a variety of conditions. For example; the GMO’s tested in their raw state should also be tested after being boiled. This may remove the risk of mutation and therefore the concern of food shortages.
If the 153 thousand new diseases themselves mutate at the same rate we can expect, at a minimum, a further 8 possible very different diseases. I say a minimum because I expect one of these large numbers of mutations will become the more prevalent disease. With most people contracting this new strain any variants would be a mutation of a mutation and this could take us further away from any initial immunity offered from vaccination. We could be dealing with a very different disease in very short period of time.
Due to a complete lack of action by the New Zealand government on this, I have posted my concerns on You Tube. At http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqkXgwQ33Rc. A visit to the site will increase its circulation; Send A Link To Friends And Let The People Know!
Sincerely
Peter Brake
Former management accountant
Bio Engineering Institute
Auckland University
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0909/S00039.htm
Two New Types of Swine - Testing Needed
Monday, 7 September 2009, 3:59 pm
Opinion: Peter Brake
Testing For Swine Needed - Two New Types
To the Editor,
The first mutation of the swine flu happened with 36,000 people catching the disease. The second mutation 70,893 people caught the disease.
Since then, full testing has not been carried out, and we now have another two types of swine flu one in the southern United States with resistance to Tamiflu, and another reportedly placing people in intensive care as this form travels directly to the lungs causing severe illness in otherwise healthy young people.
Scientists concerns are rightfully based around the deaths from a mutation of this disease, New Zealand researchers reported that 79% of people are expected to contract the disease, or, some 5.36 billion people. If the same rate of mutation is expected that means we will experience 150 thousand mutations. We could expect half of these to be more deadly than the current outbreak. We urgently need to investigate why so many mutations are happening.
There is a piece of equipment called an electron spectrometer which can see what micro organisms are doing. I am asking the New Zealand government to buy or lease one. Some US universities currently are using them but not for this purpose.
The testing I am suggesting is on the swine flu virus itself, also mutation agents such as common soil bacteria and a selection of the human bodies’ bacteria. This is important because bacteria attempt mutation in order to eat. They do this naturally, inserting genes in order to produce proteins from which they feed. This process has been shown to have altered other species genome by 12%, over the course of time.
Current scientific research has shown that bacteria sense outside conditions and has categorised 9000 types of bacteria. Researchers estimate that there are 110 billion types of bacteria on Earth. My understanding is that with this level of competition, the surviving bacteria will have evolved to a stage where they sense opportune moments to attempt gene transfer. Such as, when they are aware of other micro organisms having achieved a successful gene insertion.
Genetic engineering employs the use of antibiotics to lower the species barrier to enable the insertion of new genes, into their targeted species. It has been found, as reported by Dr Mae Wan Ho a leader in this field working from a British university, that various antibiotics increase the chances of gene transfer (mutation) up to 10000 times. As yet no antibiotics have been banned from human treatment even though some of these people now have swine flu.
I am aware that antibiotics may destroy the gene transferring bacteria but not the swine flu itself. However, mutations can happen from heat shock and other conditions and the bacteria need not survive after transferring the gene. Please test these antibiotics under all conditions and tell our hospitals what the dangers are.
Further the genetically modified organisms that we are currently eating are likely to also be increasing mutation rates; both GMO’s and antibiotics need to be tested urgently to see what levels of mutations they are causing. Given that vaccines are a weakened virus still capable of mutation these too should be checked to see whether we are increasing or decreasing the risks from this mass medication.
What we are looking for within the experiments is the change in rate of attempted gene transfers by the bacteria. This testing should include a variety of conditions. For example; the GMO’s tested in their raw state should also be tested after being boiled. This may remove the risk of mutation and therefore the concern of food shortages.
If the 153 thousand new diseases themselves mutate at the same rate we can expect, at a minimum, a further 8 possible very different diseases. I say a minimum because I expect one of these large numbers of mutations will become the more prevalent disease. With most people contracting this new strain any variants would be a mutation of a mutation and this could take us further away from any initial immunity offered from vaccination. We could be dealing with a very different disease in very short period of time.
Due to a complete lack of action by the New Zealand government on this, I have posted my concerns on You Tube. At http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqkXgwQ33Rc. A visit to the site will increase its circulation; Send A Link To Friends And Let The People Know!
Sincerely
Peter Brake
Former management accountant
Bio Engineering Institute
Auckland University
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0909/S00039.htm
