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How Deadly Viruses Kill

              The short answer of how highly pathogenic viruses kill people is, they deplete selenium from the cells and organs of the immune system. That eventually can cause multiorgan failure and death. Killer viruses do this by genetically encoding the selenium proteins they need to replicate. This is comparable to how the sun can kill a person if they try to cross a desert with no water. The sun kills by gradually depleting water from a person’s body. Killer viruses kill by depleting the essential selenium that cells, organs, and the human body need to function. The same principle applies. However, most viruses that infect humans are not highly deadly. Only a few are.             Adults harbor more than a hundred viruses in their body. Most people are infected by at least one of several herpes viruses. They remain infected for life. While the immune system normally keeps them in check, durin...
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Life, Death, the Immune System, and RFK Jr.

                The immune system is the most complex system in the human body. It is the only system besides the nervous system that has a memory. Vaccines utilize that memory to prime the immune system to help prevent infection and save lives from infectious disease. Most vaccines are 100% protective. Others are partially or mostly protective.             Every human cell contains its own miniature immune system. The cellular antioxidant system keeps cells detoxified, clean, and healthy. The critical active component of 80% of antioxidants, the part that does the real work, is composed of selenium-based proteins called selenoproteins. Without enough selenium, cells get sick and die.             The human immune system consists of the kidneys, spleen, liver, thymus, lymph nodes, and white blood cells. It performs the same task fo...
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Coser to a Cure for H5N1 Avian Influenza

Covid-19 has killed over 1.23 million Americans - 47,500 in 2024. That is more than in all U.S. wars. H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) potentially could kill ten or twenty times that many. Chances are it will kill far more than Covid did, especially if health authorities continue to ignore the science.    Far less likely, as Donald Trump predicted for Covid-19 in early 2020, “It will all go away by Easter.”  Tens of millions of Americans could die of H5N1. Or not. Viruses are tricky. Today, the only thing we know for sure is that American health authorities are almost totally unprepared to meet the immense historic challenge of a potential H5N1 pandemic that most epidemiologists believe eventually will strike – perhaps soon.  How unprepared are we? The Trump administration is extremely unprepared. What can we do to fix that? Besides physically protective barriers including masks, shields, social distancing, quarantines, shutdowns and hand sanit...
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CDC Informed About a Combination Therapy that Should Cure 80% of H5N1 Influenza Cases

Dear Center for Disease Control, NCIRD, Influenza Section,             A month ago, only one version of avian influenza was spreading among cattle in the U.S., H5N1 B3.13. Now two additional versions of avian flu are spreading, H5N1 D1.1 and H5N9. Just as worrying, scientists now believe the virus can be spread via the airborne dust of desiccated waterfowl feces, and perhaps from pet cats to people. But you already know this. What no one can predict is how soon the virus may reassort with seasonal flu or mutate to become easily transmittable between people, which variant will go pandemic, or what the eventual case mortality rate will be.             When SARS-CoV-2 (SARS-2) was first announced in January 2020, because of my 30 years studying viral pandemic disease I instantly knew the broad-spectrum antiviral medicines aspirin and selenium would be effective against Covid-19...
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Three Analogies that Explain Broad-Spectrum Antiviral Drugs Against H5N1

                                                                                  The Boxing Ring               In a boxing match, all any pugilist has to defend himself is the power of his two arms, his two fists, and his technique. To fight the next up-and-coming   pandemic opponent, H5N1 influenza, the therapeutic boxer has been gifted two fists and the power to propel them. One of the boxer’s fists consists of “specific” antiviral drugs that were developed to directly and specifically reduce replication of a particular virus. Specific antiviral drugs are effective against only one type of virus and are essentially useless against other viral infections. Currently, specific ant...
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