Dengue fever – two news articles highlighting different prevention approaches - injections or modified skeeters
First some context:
From here:
“Dengue viruses are spread to people through the bites of infected Aedes species mosquitoes (Ae. aegypti or Ae. albopictus). These are the same types of mosquitoes that spread Zika and chikungunya viruses.”
Ok, from here:
Brazil on dengue fever alert ahead of carnival (yahoo.com)
“Brazil plans to start a public vaccination campaign against dengue this month -- though a lack of doses from the vaccine's maker, Japanese pharmaceutical company Takeda, means only children ages 10 to 14 will be targeted.
Brazil's government says it is studying options to produce a dengue vaccine domestically.
Dengue, which can cause hemorrhagic fever, infects an estimated 100 million to 400 million people yearly, though most cases are mild or asymptomatic, according to the World Health Organization.”
With this article from here:
“What makes Wolbachia a medical miracle is the fact that when it is introduced into Aedes aegypti [mosquitoes], it effectively blocks the capacity of many of the viruses that make people sick from growing in the mosquito. And if the viruses can’t replicate, they can’t be transmitted to humans.
“Our team successfully introduced a strain of Wolbachia taken from fruit flies into Aedes aegypti more than a decade ago, and over the past 10 years, we have shown that when Wolbachia-carrying Aedes aegypti are released into the environment, they collapse dengue transmission in that location. We are also confident that it is effective against chikungunya, Zika, and many other arboviruses based on our laboratory research.”
Different strokes for different folks!
Maybe neither the skeeters nor the injections are tools of the Cult.
Onwards!
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What - an Ivermectin for mosqueitos? Don’t like the target age range 10-14 but that’s maybe a hangover because of the c-19 devastation already visited upon the West’s children. Domestic production by the communist Brazilian fake government though: that is downright worrying. God knows what they’ll add to that.
These thoughts on wolbachia and canine heartworm disease. Wolbachia bacteria require the host heartworm to survive and the heartworm requires Wolbachia for its survival. Eliminating Wolbachia through the use of doxycycline is important to the treatment of the heartworm-infected animal.
What Are Wolbachia and Why Are They Important to the Heartworm?
Wolbachia bacteria are related to Rickettsia, which are intracellular bacterial parasites that live within certain invertebrates, including some flies and nematodes.3 Wolbachia are bacterial symbionts. As endosymbionts, Wolbachia bacteria require the host organism, the heartworm, to survive; equally, the heartworm requires Wolbachia for its survival.
The exact function of Wolbachia in heartworms is unknown. It has been hypothesized that the presence of these bacteria may aid in energy metabolism. Populations of Wolbachia, which are present in all heartworm life stages, expand between the third-stage infectious larvae (L3) and fourth-stage larvae (L4). For this reason, it is hypothesized that preventing the expansion of the Wolbachia population will prevent heartworm development.
Wolbachia possess surface proteins (WSPs)8 that are responsible in part for the pathogenesis of heartworm disease. When adult heartworms die naturally or as a result of melarsomine administration, the bacteria and their components, including WSPs, are released. The WSPs recruit neutrophils and other immune cells; as these cells are recruited on the microscopic level in the blood vessels, partial blockage of vessels can result, which can impede blood flow. Furthermore, inflammation of the dog’s lungs can manifest in clinical signs, such as coughing and dyspnea.
Although we do not understand the complete role of Wolbachia in the pathogenesis of heartworm disease, experimental and clinical trials have shown that elimination of the bacteria using doxycycline decreases both macroscopic and microscopic pathology, as well as clinical signs.