{"id":611,"date":"2020-07-11T11:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docsam.ca\/?p=611"},"modified":"2020-07-11T11:44:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T16:44:00","slug":"covid-19-sbh-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docsam.ca\/?p=611","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 SBH-updates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Retrovirus pandemics reportings- .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;During the last century there have been&nbsp; 5&nbsp; major&nbsp; pandemics- the swine or Spanish flu, HIV\/AIDS, Ebola, Sars and currently&nbsp; Corona, all&nbsp; caused by RNA retroviruses..&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From a Wikipedia&nbsp; search we read that these RNA retroviruses&nbsp; have the ability to insert a copy of their <strong>own&nbsp; RNA genome<\/strong> into the DNA genome of&nbsp; the&nbsp; host (human cells ) that they invade . To do this amazing genetic i<strong>nversion process,<\/strong> retroviruses&nbsp; use their own <strong>reverse transcriptase<\/strong> <strong>enzyme<\/strong> to produce a <strong>DNA copy<\/strong> of their own <strong>RNA genome<\/strong> . This new <strong>retroviral DNA<\/strong>&#8211; called a <strong>provirus<\/strong>&#8211;&nbsp; is then incorporated into the host cell <strong>DNA genome<\/strong> with an <strong>integrate enzyme<\/strong>. The host cell now can treat the viral DNA as part&nbsp; of its own genome ! -first <strong>transcribing<\/strong> it into RNA&nbsp; then&nbsp;<strong> translating <\/strong>the viral genes along with the host cells own genes-into a peptide: by following&nbsp; the classical Francis Crick model which every student learned in their high school biology class.:namely:<strong> DNA-to RNA-to amino acid peptide.viz transcription\/translation\/ to a protein peptide chain. <\/strong>You can do this google research yourself just by opening the&nbsp; Safari app and typing&nbsp; in the&nbsp; search field<strong>-t<\/strong>he word&nbsp;<strong> \u201cretroviruses.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Molecular&nbsp; biologists quickly realized that this property of retroviruses could be useful tools in <strong>adding new genes to the human DNA genome &#8211;<\/strong> Obviouslythey run the risk of potentially creating new retrovirus pathogens like the 5 pandemics I mentioned.&nbsp; Indeed Dr. Leonard Horowitz in his textbook <strong>Emerging Viruses&nbsp; AIDS &amp; Ebola. Nature, Accident or Intentional ?, <\/strong>details how some of these&nbsp; possible dangers may occur.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since before a retro RNA-virus can do this conversion and produce the pandemic. it must&nbsp; <strong>first gain entrance into the human cell<\/strong> <strong>cytoplasm-<\/strong> For them&nbsp; these target host cells are the special lymphocytes called <strong>T4 thymus (helper ) cells.<\/strong> Maybe the virologists who are working to develop vaccines&nbsp; should shift to find ways to prevent such viruses and other microbes from penetrating cell membranes rather than working on developing special vaccines.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For over 15 years (Between 1974-1992) while in medical practice I set up a private tissue culture laboratory where I studied the cellular behaviour of human lymphocytes growing in blood culture&nbsp; using&nbsp; the Sage time&nbsp; lapse cinephotomicrographic apparatus.I was able to record several types of cellular behavior, which I felt might help explain the findings by the late Dr. Frank Plummer of&nbsp; where he found a group of female sex workers were immune to the HIV virus. Would this find that this RNA retrovirus not be able to enter the human lymphocytes from this&nbsp; special female group. My studies of the behaviour of human lymphocytes in blood tissue culture with time lapse movie might demonstrate this behaviour. Unfortunately I never did get around to do this study even though I made several attempts to contact and do a joint study with Dr,F. Plummer using the group of sexual prostitutes whom he found were immune to AIDS,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dr. Semeon B. Hrushovetz, B.Sc.M.S.,Ph.D, M.D.CCFP<\/strong><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retrovirus pandemics reportings- . &nbsp;During the last century there have been&nbsp; 5&nbsp; major&nbsp; pandemics- the swine or Spanish flu, HIV\/AIDS, Ebola, Sars and currently&nbsp; Corona, all&nbsp; caused by RNA retroviruses..&nbsp; From a Wikipedia&nbsp; search we read that these RNA retroviruses&nbsp; have the ability to insert a copy of their own&nbsp; RNA genome into the DNA &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.docsam.ca\/?p=611\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Covid-19 SBH-updates&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docsam.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docsam.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docsam.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docsam.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docsam.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.docsam.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"https:\/\/www.docsam.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docsam.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docsam.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docsam.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}