Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Tuberculosis and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases to Stay Forever

Dear Professor Andrew Charles Gomez.

Senior Consultant Head and Neck Surgeon

 Thank you for sharing the information about the re-emergence of tuberculosis we only thought we have eradicated by giving world-wide BCG vaccinations.

Let me reply with my views and to dedicate this article to you.

 Do you know that Dr Soumya Swaminathan is well-known for her research in tuberculosis and HIV. She is actually an Indian paediatrician who was later appointed as the Chief Scientist to the World Health Organization. Previously, from October 2017 to March 2019, she was the Deputy Director General of Programmes (DDP) at the WHO.   

 During the height of the Covid pandemic, she was the one who blocked the entire world including Malaysia from using the antiparasitic drug ivermectin from being used to treat covid

 The National Medical Commission of India (NMC) wanted to sue her for this, but failed. How can any medical body sue her as she was acting on behalf of WHO which is a world authority on health

 In fact, as an Indian national and Chief Scientist to WHO, the NMC should be very proud of her for being appointed into such a prestigious and high position. But the Indian government did not sue her, except NMC

 Even here in Malaysia ivermectin is not allowed to be prescribed by any doctor for covid because they did 3 or 4 studies on this, and found it ineffective

 So now nobody talks about the use of ivermectin anymore, or about antimalarial drugs such as chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine or the use of any antiviral drug such as Remdesivir, Nirmatrelvir, Ritonavir … etc. Thanks to Dr Swaminathan for her scientific insight.  

 Even the use of face masks is useless to stop this coronavirus. As I have explained this coronavirus is capable of at least 400 quintillion genomic variations (mutagenic variants) not even counting new strains.

 See explanation here:

https://scientificlogic.blogspot.com/search?q=400+quintillion 

This plague is here to stay forever just like tuberculosis despite the world-wide use of BCG vaccines.

Perhaps we may have to rely on isoniazid and rifampicin to be given for 6 months and an additional of two more antibiotics, pyrazinamide and ethambutol for another 6 months to manage tuberculosis if they show up again despite bacilli Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccines. 

But even this we are not sure of their efficacy on a long-term control of tuberculosis when BCG fails to protect us from this bacterium (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) that normally attacks the lungs, but can also attack any part of the body such as the kidney, spine, and brain.

It was only 200,000 years ago that anatomically modern humans arose, followed by Homo sapiens 250,000 – 160,000 years ago. Homo language was possible only 120,000 years ago. 

See summary of the Age of the Universe and the evolution of life on earth here:

https://scientificlogic.blogspot.com/search?q=a+summary+of+age+of+the+universe

As reference to malaria, mosquitoes were already there long before human existence. There are more than 3, 000 known species of mosquitoes in the world today. According to one study by the

University of Alaska, the oldest mosquito fossil is said to be 79 million years old, though scientists believe mosquitos have been in existence for 226 million years.

A study in 2019, scientists from Oregon State University found a new species of mosquito when dissecting an ancient piece of amber from Myanmar. The amber with a mosquito embedded dates back to the mid-Cretaceous Period, which was 145 to 66 million years ago. Other scientists believe mosquitoes have already existed over 300 million years ago, long before the existence of humans.

Mosquitoes are carriers of malaria that kills hundreds of thousands, especially children each year. According to WHO's latest World malaria report, there were an estimated 241 million malaria cases and 627 000 malaria deaths worldwide in 2020. 

But a finding in 2021, World Malaria Report reveals malaria leads to more total deaths than previously thought: 627,000 in 2020, a significant increase from the 409,000 deaths reported in 2019. This increase is due in part to the revised number of malaria deaths among children under the age of five, with malaria now accounting for 7.8% of deaths, an increase from the previous 4.8%.

What's even more threatening, mosquitoes carry not only malaria, but other virus-causing diseases as well, such as Zika virus, West Nile virus, Chikungunya virus, and dengue 

Malaria is perhaps the most common and prevalent disease caused by mosquitoes for which synthetic antimalarial drugs such as chloroquine is now found to be resistant

We may have to go back to natural medicines like quinine from the cinchona tree bark, the original natural product used in antimalarial chemotherapy or Artemisinin first isolated from the leaves of the sweet wormwood – Artemisia annua, a natural traditional Chinese medicine which inhibits the malaria parasites, a discovery for which Tu Youyou of China won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2015. But using natural medicines to treat malaria may cause more harm than good due to the destruction of these valuable plants for the extraction of these natural traditional medicines.

We can clearly see here it is not just tuberculosis that is resurfacing, but also long-standing traditional diseases like malaria which were already there for thousands if not millions of years. How are we going to solve all these problems plaguing mankind for tens of thousands of years?  

I personally believe the best defence against all communicable diseases is our own immune system specially built for us since birth as our bodies are fearfully and wonderfully made. See my explanation here:

https://scientificlogic.blogspot.com/search?q=our+body+is+fearfully+made 

https://scientificlogic.blogspot.com/2021/06/our-wonderful-immune-system-drugs-and.html 

" I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well." (Psalm 139:14. KJV)

 Just like malaria which is now showing resistance to chloroquine, so would all these antibiotics sooner or later show resistance to Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

 So can Hansen's disease or leprosy caused by Mycobacterium leprae become resistant to triple antibiotic regime dapsone together with rifampicin, and clofazimine.

Doctors and scientists need to study evolutionary medicine or Darwinian medicine too like I did at Cambridge, and not just on pharmacology and clinical medicine.

They have to understand that all life including pathogenic microorganisms have been created and evolved for over the last 3.5 billion years, first appearing in the oceans, before creeping into the land and soil, and they are especially evolved to stay till the Sun dies in another 5,000,000,000 years more, long, long after the last human disappears from the surface of Earth.

They merely obey the biological law of Nature to adapt against all odds as “survival of the fittest”. It is very futile for us to fight against them with antibiotics or against viruses with antiviral agents. They just mutate into much hardier strains against all drugs. It is just their nature programmed into them by our and their Creator.  

My feeling in most areas of medical sciences, including evolutionary medicine I know, we can never, never fight with an Almighty Nature. This pandemic is here to stay to destroy and to reduce our cancerous human overpopulation at the expanse all other animals that too have the right to inherit this Earth, not just us human animals who are only interested in building concrete structures, cars, trains, ships, shopping malls, etc, etc, and park them everywhere here and there and claim them as their properties after destroying the natural environment everywhere. Human animals are blind to the fatal consequences of food, fuel, energy depletion and climate change with their activities.

See here on: 

“Our Dilemma of Over Population”

https://scientificlogic.blogspot.com/search?q=over+population 

I think that's why all those infectious diseases like tuberculosis you mentioned, plus my own opinion on Ebola haemorrhagic fevers, Lassa fever, Hendra, Nipah, HIV viruses, etc, etc, are re-emerging which we only thought we have conquered. They like malaria, dengue and covid are here to stay forever to get rid of all of us, sinful human animals.   

Even the continuing wearing of face masks is useless.

Read my reasons why masks do not protect against coronavirus here:

https://scientificlogic.blogspot.com/search?q=Face+mask&m=1

If they want face masks to be a very, very bit more effective, then make their own face masks, but still not effective enough as the virus will pass through all filters including even thick porcelain ultra-filters

https://taionn.blogspot.com/2021/05/making-our-own-face-masks-by-dr-jb-lim.html?m=1

The dangers of wearing face masks while exercising:

https://scientificlogic.blogspot.com/2020/05/dangers-of-wearing-face-mask-while.html

This virus is capable of mutating into at least 400 Quintillion Strains and Variants through the design of God in His evolution of life on Earth

https://taionn.blogspot.com/2021/02/a-hundred-quintillion-strains-and.html?m=1

How are all these scientists and so called "medical experts" who advise the public to wear face masks are going to fight with God, the Intelligent Designer of all the Universe? God is no respecter of any human animal

Thank you to all readers for reading and sharing my thoughts with all.

Jb lim

 


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