Europeans virtually immune to AIDS

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In my opinion there is an attack on people of color....in knowing this information..it would be very easy to manufacture a virus to target a certain group of people...... The website is called great moments in history, how is this information a great moment in history only if it is helping a particular section of the population?? I guess it still is because it is uncovering the evil intention of others.....

 

 

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A little while ago I talked about how in the mid-1300s, the Black Plague swept across Europe killing roughly one third of all the Europeans who were alive at that time. The traditional belief among the microbiologists is that the Black Death was caused by a bacterium. But two epidemiologists from Liverpool University, Susan Scott and Christopher Duncan, make some astonishing claims. Firstly, they claim that the Black Death was caused by a virus not a bacterium, and secondly, that past contact with the virus made some of today's Europeans virtually immune to AIDS.This is based on some rather clever research by Stephen O'Brien from the US National Cancer Institute. He was looking at a protein called CCR5. This protein, CCR5, sits on the outside of white blood cells called macrophages. You might remember that white blood cells are a part of your immune system. CCR5 is a docking port. It normally acts as a receptor for some molecules, which help control inflammation. But the

AIDS virus uses CCR5 to get inside and kill some of the cells of our immune system. Now normally your immune system is there to protect you from invaders. What's diabolical about the virus that causes AIDS is that it actually attacks your protectors, and leaves you open to infections.In its role in moderating inflammation, the CCR5 protein does a good job. But in the unlikely circumstance that the AIDS virus gets into your blood stream, then CCR5 is a weak point which the AIDS virus can use to disable your immune system.Now most people have the CCR5 protein on their macrophages, and so they can be attacked by the AIDS virus. But some people have a mutation where we are missing the CCR5 protein is missing on some, or all, of macrophages. If you don't have the CCR5 protein, then the AIDS virus can't enter your cells. This mutation is most common among the people in Northern Europe. 14% of Swedish people have the mutation, and so are missing the CCR5

docking protein in some, or all, of their white blood cells - and have some degree of immunity to the virus that causes AIDS. But as you head geographically south and east, the mutation becomes less common. It's present in about 4.5% of Greeks, about 2% of Central Asians, and it's totally absent in people from East Asia, from Africa, and from Native Americans. These people are genetically very susceptible to the AIDS virus.It's possible to analyse how common this mutation (in CCR5) is by looking at ancient bones. This mutation was present in north eastern Europe about 2,000 years ago. But it was very rare. Only about one in every 40,000 Europeans had it. And then, around 700 years ago, something very dramatic happened to increase the percentage of this mutation from one in 40,000 to one in 7. Well, around 700 years ago, the Black Death worked its way from southern to northern Europe, and killed roughly one third of the humans. That sounds like it would have been dramatic

enough.So when the Black Plague swept through northern Europe, the people who did not have the mutation died, and the people who did, survived. Now here's an interesting side issue. CCR5 is normally used to fight viruses, so this suggests that whatever caused the Black Plague could have been a virus.Now this research gives us a few rather disturbing implications. If the Black Plague was caused by a virus, and it hit us once before, then it could hit us again. Stephen O'Brien and his colleagues finish their paper by suggesting a list of possible candidates for the Black Plague. The very last sentence in their paper says, "attempts to examine these deadly pathogens of documented mortality during the dawn of western civilization, in the context of CCR5 genotype, would be illuminating.""Illuminating" is an understatement. Part of the problem is that it is difficult to retrieve viruses from the past. In 1918 there was a tremendously devastating flu virus that

swept around the world killing millions of people. But the scientists have had enormous difficulty in trying to find this virus from the bodies of its victims, which have since been preserved by permafrost in the northern parts of Europe. And with regard to the Plague, even if we get better at extracting ancient virus DNA or RNA, we really don't know what we're searching for.We can only hope that scientists will work out what the cause was, before the Black Death comes knocking on our doors again...

 

 

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Blessings family,

Dr. Lenny Horowitz wrote a book called AIDS EBOLA Emerging Viruses. He cites evidence to suggest that AIDS was devised in a laboratory and distributed in specific locations, Africa and the Gay section of NYC, among other places.

I pray that the dis-ease of hatred that plagues the "ruling" elite will dissolve away.

For now,

We must guard our bodies from the government's attempts to harm us.

love and light

pam