Virtual Infection of Human Genome Database

Human Genome Contaminated With Mycoplasma DNA

The discovery of alien DNA in the published human genome raises important questions about preventing ‘virtual infections’

KFC 06/23/2011, MIT Technology review

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Earlier this year, molecular biologists announced that 20 per cent of nonhuman genome databases are contaminated with human DNA, probably from the researchers who sequenced the samples.

Now, the human genome itself has become contaminated. Bill Langdon at University College London and Matthew Arno at Kings College London say they’ve found sequences from mycoplasma bacteria in the human genome database.

This contamination has far reaching consequences. Biotech companies use the human genome database to create DNA chips that measure levels of human gene expression. Langdon and Arno say they’ve found mycoplasma DNA in two commercially available human DNA chips.

Anybody using these chips to measure human gene expression is also unknowingly measuring mycoplasma gene expression too.

In some ways, this is hardly a surprise. “It is well known that mycoplasma contamination is rife in molecular biology laboratories,” says Langdon and Arno. With any luck the discovery of this stuff in the human genome database will focus minds on the problem.

A key question is the nature of this kind of information transmission. These mycoplasma genes are clearly successful in reproducing themselves in silico. One possibility is that we’re seeing the beginnings of an entirely new kind of landscape of infection.

Here, genes that can masquerade as human (or indeed as other organisms) can successfully transmit themselves from one database to another. And if we think of this as virtual infection, a sure bet is that we’ll be worrying about virtual evolution in the near future.

But what to do? The level of contamination and the way in which it is spreading suggests that researchers are losing the battle to eliminate it. “We.. fear current tools will be inadequate to catch genes which have jumped the silicon barrier,” they say.

Most frightening of all is the possibility that Langdon and Arno may have only scratched the surface. “Having found two suspect DNA sequences, it seems likely the published “human genome” sequence contains more,” they say.

If virtual infection is really as big a problem as Langdon and Arno suggest, we may well need to protect databases with the genomic version of antivirus software, a kind of virtual immune system.

But this in itself is likely to trigger an evolutionary arms race that selects genes most capable of beating the safeguards.

Clearly, this is a nettle that needs to be grasped quickly. That’s if it’s not too late already.

Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1106.4192: More Mouldy Data: Virtual Infection of the Human Genome

CRKP: carapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae

CRKP is becoming wide spread. This week I am seeing it in the U.S., Europe, and Korea. For frequency work it is simply another anti-biotic resistant bacteria. Frequencies will be available on the Frequency Foundation subscribers list.

Antibiotics are increasingly becoming an obsolete technology. They were never good for the human body’s immune system even when they killed bacteria. I haven’t used any since 1993 and they should only be used in emergencies when nothing else works.

Deadly Antibiotic-Resistant Superbug Spreads in Southern California

An antibiotic-resistant superbug once thought to be rare is spreading through health-care facilities in Southern California, health officials say.

By KATIE MOISSE, ABC News Medical Unit

March 25, 2011

Roughly 350 cases of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae, or CRKP, were reported in Los Angeles County between June and December of 2010, according to a study from the L.A. County Department of Public Health to be presented April 3 in Dallas at the annual meeting of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.

“These patients tend to be elderly, they are commonly on ventilators and they often stay at the facility for an extended period of time,” Dr. Dawn Terashita, medical epidemiologist and lead author of the study, said in a statement.

CRKP joins other superbugs such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, in a league of bacteria that outwits typical antibiotics.

“We develop new drugs to defeat the infections and germs change to get around those drugs and this is one of those cases,” Dr. Richard Besser, ABC News chief health and medical editor, said today in an interview on ABC News’ “Good Morning America.”

Besser is a former acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. “It’s like an arms race and in many ways the germs are winning,” he said.

CRKP is not new to California, or the rest of the country for that matter. The CDC has been tracking it across 35 states since 2009. It is young, however, compared to MRSA, according to Dr. Arjun Srinivasan, associate director of the CDC’s health care-associated, infection-prevention programs.

“But in terms of mortality and morbidity, it’s very, very serious,” Srinivasan said. “These infections are more difficult to treat than MRSA.”

CRKP is an enterobacterium like salmonella and E. coli.

It is unclear how many cases of the 350 reported by Terashita and colleagues were fatal. It is also unclear whether the infections stemmed from improper care at long term-care facilities or the frailty of the patients they serve. But Terashita said infected patients tended to have health problems that often resulted in antibiotic use, which might have made them more susceptible.

“All of these factors contribute to a greater risk for health care-acquired infections,” she said.
Besser said, “This superbug is very dangerous. It tends to affect people that are in the hospital for long periods of time; people that have underlying medical problems; people who have been in nursing homes.”
Although healthy people in the general public are not at risk for infection, they could transmit the bacteria to sick loved ones.

“As a loved one of someone that is in the hospital, you have to be vigilant when you’re sitting there with your relative and anyone comes in and wants to touch your relative without washing their hands,” Besser said. “You have to say something. … It does come down to simple things like that, making sure no one is giving a germ to someone you care about.”

Health-care workers should be equally vigilant, Besser said. “A lot of it comes down to hospitals,” he said. “They need to make sure that health-care workers aren’t spreading it from patient to patient. That’s mainly what takes place.

Preventing the spread of CRKP is key because the infections are so difficult to treat, the CDC’s Srinivasan said. The “mainstay treatment,” colistin, is an older generation antibiotic with toxic side effects. And newer, more effective treatment options are unlikely to be developed any time soon.

Devastating new infection from ticks found in blood supply

Roz Zurko, Fourwinds.com

Babesiosis cases are on the rise, which is much like Lyme Disease, as it is contracted from a tick bite, this infection is going undiagnosed with concerns that it is being spread not only by ticks, but also in through the donated blood supply.

As if Lyme Disease wasn’t enough to worry about when spending anytime outdoors in the warm weather, now a new disease is growing in numbers that is caused by the same insect that causes Lyme, a tick, according to the website Green Living. Lyme Disease is contracted from a tick bite and can be a debilitating disease and even fatal if left untreated. Now the tick bite is causing babesiosisnce. It is a potentially devastating infection that is gaining a foothold in the Northeast. Government researchers have found this disease is becoming more predominant, especially the Lower Hudson Valley and coastal areas of the Northeast.

Babesiosis results from infection with Babesia microti and causes a malaria like illness. This parasite lives in red blood cells and is carried by deer ticks. Though the disease is far less common than Lyme disease, babesiosis can be fatal, particularly in people with compromised immune systems. One of the concerns about the spread of this disease is through the blood supply. Without a widely used screening test for this disease, this is a threat to the blood supply. Sanjai Kumar, who is the chief of the laboratory of emerging pathogens at the Food and Drug Administration says, “We are very worried about it and are doing everything in our power to address this,” according to the NY Times.

The most recent report for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has seen a 20-fold increase in cases of babesisosis. In 2001, there were six cases of this disease reported in the Lower Hudson Valley. This jumped to 119 in 2008. This is particularly of concern in areas that see the greatest cases of Lyme Disease, because it is the same ticks that carry both babesisosis and Lyme. Coastal Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Long Island are the places where Lyme Disease is endemic.

Dr. Peter Krause, senior research scientist at Yale School of Public Health said it is in these areas that see Lyme Disease where babesiosis is also becoming very common. One study done on residents of Block Island R.I. showed that babesiosis to be just 25 percent less common than Lyme Disease. Other areas are seeing the spread of this disease, like the Upper Midwest, but to a slower degree, says Krause.

Airborne Aerosol Spraying: Summary Article

OPINIONS REGARDING THE FUNCTIONS OF CHEMTRAILS/STRATOSPHERIC AEROSOL GEOENGINEERING

Chemtrails are trails of substances sprayed from devices attached on aircraft into the upper atmosphere and into the air we breathe. They differ from the condensation trails sometimes seen emanating from planes in a number of ways, including that they often linger in the sky for more than half-an-hour, and can fill an otherwise clear-blue sky with an unnatural-looking cloud cover within which the tell-tale signs of electromagnetic gravity waves emerge.

Chemtrails in a criss-cross pattern

While politicians typically tend to elude the issue of chemtrails or erroneously claim that they don’t exist, there’s a staggering amount of information available about them on the Internet to show that they do. At the time of writing there were about 1,730,000 entries at Google under ‘chemtrail,’ videos from around the world, numerous official documents related to their use and a wide variety of opinions regarding what they are used for. This article will focus on the latter.

Ralph Nader on Water Fluoridation

Major Update: Swine Flu 2011 Version 3.5

national levels of ILI and ARI
CDC flu statistics continue to rise for the 2011 flu season. The flu is a variation of the swine flu from last year. It appears to have evolved in the wild and picked up many new organisms.

The flu is transmitted by dozens of strains of microscopic airborne parasites. In Japan, infected persons wear a face mask to avoid transmitting the flu from expelling these airborne parasites which a loaded with viruses, bacteria, fungi, and other organisms.

Recent research on school children shows the flu expands in networks of friends, not so much in families or even between children sitting next to each other in school. This is likely due to the fact that the virus itself is not the main route of infection. Parasites are transmitting mainly by talking with one another face to face.

A severe, lingering flu was initially experienced in London in October and multiple clients began reporting the same symtoms in various parts of the U.S. and Europe. Constant travels through major airports in the world in November-February expanded this frequency set. It is now in all major airports. The people in my office call it the flu that never ends.

Almost two dozen strains of cytomegalovirus (HHV-5) have been identified. They have been broken out into a separate program.

Dozens of strains of parasites have now been broken out into a separate program.

chronic fatigue syndrome virus
cholera baccili
tuberculosis – now including XDR-TB
1918 swine flu strains including several new strains of swine flu
ukrainian swine flu (black lung)
cytomegalovirus (HHV-5) – many strains
epstein barr virus
cocksackie B4 virus – several new strains
superbugs (some from chemtrails and including MRSA)
lou gehrig virus
many parasites (some from chemtrails)
avian flu strains 1,2, 3 and new strain 4
herpes simplex virus (HSV2)
borna virus strains 1, 2, 3
candida – multiple strains
many other lyme viruses

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Swiss Take Action on Complementary Medicine

Switzerland embeds CAM in constitution

On 17 May 2009 the Swiss people voted in favour of a constitutional article for complementary medicine in a national vote. 67 percent of voters supported the new constitutional article. Switzerland is the first country in Europe to set out in the constitution, authority for the state and constituent states (cantons) to take complementary medicine into consideration in the public health service.

Yes to Complementary Medicine

Over the last few years complementary medicine has been politically marginalized in Switzerland. Therefore, the complementary medicine sector, including doctors, therapists, manufacturers and specialized traders, together launched and brought about a national popular initiative. This enabled Swiss voters to obtain a referendum for a constitutional amendment if they collected 100,000 valid signatures within 18 months.

Prescriptions Drugs Remain the Leading Cause of Death from Medical Error

The term “quackery” originated with the use of quicksilver (mercury) to treat patients. Along with blood letting, this was a common practice at one time. Both mercury and blood letting reduced the symptoms that the patient experienced by making the immune system so weak it could not respond. George Washington alleged died of this after being treated for catching a cold.

The dentists who continue to use mercury are the modern day “quacks” but what about physicians who use drugs that kill the patient rather than saving them.

Medical error is the third leading cause of death in the United States and the largest component of medical error is drugs administered to patients in hospitals. Most people are not aware of this or of the autopsy research that shows about 1/3 of patients that die in a hospital in the U.S. and the U.K. die of a cause that is not diagnosed and they are not being treated for.

Perhaps we could excuse the physicians who have a tough job if they were trying to do better. However, there has been no noticeable improvement in the medical error problem since I participated in the government investigation into this issue 13 years ago.

Jon Rappaport comments on his recent interview with Barbara Starfield who published epidemiological data on this problem in JAMA many years ago. Starfield’s work was reviewed over a decade ago on this blog.

THE STARFIELD REVELATION REVISITED

THE STARFIELD REVELATION, REVISITED

OCTOBER 31, 2010. In the summer of the year 2000, it was a bolt out of the blue. The revelation. I come back to it for various reasons—this time because I’ve been reading doctors’ attacks on the nutritional industry: “fraudulent claims, quackery, unproven science, theft.”

You’ve heard all the accusations.

It’s interesting that these doctors don’t bother to examine their own profession. If they did, they would fall through the deep hole, and they might never find their way back to the top.

On July 26, 2000, Dr. Barbara Starfield published her landmark study, “Is US Health Really the Best in the World?” in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). At the time, Starfield was working at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. She still is.

She is, as you can see, an insider. You don’t have your papers published in JAMA if you’re not.

Among her findings? The annual figure for deaths caused by medical drugs in the US is 106,000.

THE ANNUAL FIGURE.

All those drugs were, according to her report, correctly prescribed and, of course, approved by the FDA. No drug makes its way into the American market unless the FDA certifies it as safe and effective. Both.

In a long, exclusive interview I conducted with Dr. Starfield earlier this year, she made it clear that, since the 2000 publication date, no federal agency had contacted her to consult on taking remedial actions, in the face of all these deaths.

It was also clear that the federal government had undertaken no massive campaign to cut down on the deaths caused by medical drugs.

And, of course, no mainstream news outlet has picked up the gauntlet and hammered on this ongoing mind-boggling tragedy.

106,000 deaths a year. That means, since 2000, roughly a million Americans have died as a result of ingesting medicines. A million.

So when I see these little doctors attacking the viability and correctness and safety of vitamins and minerals, I wonder what foul planet they are living on. I wonder what they think they’re doing.

You should try to remember this the next time a doctor or some self-styled expert tells you the nutritional approach to improving health is dangerous.

You should try to remember the enormity of the cover-up involved here—and also note that Dr. Starfield’s study, since its publication ten years ago, has gone virtually unchallenged. More …

Synthetic Creation of Life – Here is How They Do It!

EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) in the News

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Fear of spiders, heights, flying, whatever? The first thing you should try is a simple process of tapping on acupuncture meridians. The reporter above had fear of spiders for 25 years and after a couple of minutes of tapping was able to hold a tarantulla and feel like it was cute and cuddly. See video …

For most emotional problems EFT is the first option of choice as it takes only a few minutes and has no negative side effects. It it works, great! If not, try something else. (Actually, if you persist with EFT and/or get some help it will always offer some benefit.)

Significant research material is available for EFT and you can download a manual for free.