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  To an observer from outer space the human body might look like an assemblage of 30,000,000,000,000 cells, tiny structures that have a variety of forms and functions.      One type of cell, the killer T lymphocyte is a defender.   It kills cancer cells and destroys bacteria and viruses that enter our bodies through wounds or breeches in our skin and mucosal barriers.   It also constrains the slew of microorganisms that live in our bodies.   HIV is a virus that attacks, occupies, and destroys T cells.   After the invading virus has substantially reduced the number of body-defenders, a number of organisms “wake up”, reproduce and cause illness and death.     When a cell divides, 3 billion pairs of nucleotides separate and become positive and negative individual strands.   Each strand is complementary to the other strand.   After they part each strand combines with a 3 billion new nucleotides.   The process is quite ef...

According to Stanford researchers when the organisms that cause Covid get into a subject’s nose they invade ciliated cells and begin to copy and recopy themselves.  After replicating slowly for 24 hours they massively increase their numbers” and begin to enter “permissive” body cells.   Eighty percent of the people who get Covid aren’t significantly ill.  Some of the other 20 percent have mild symptoms at first.  According to the CDC one in 13 people who are infected-7.5 % develop Long Covid, a “wide range of new, returning, or ongoing health problems.” Paxlovid is a medication that puts a lid on an active coronavirus infection.  During the five days it’s taken a person’s immune system goes into high gear and develops antibodies that recognize and attach to the infecting organism.  When the drug is stopped the virus starts to replicate, but it can do little or no harm because most bodies have developed enough antibodies to stop them in their tracks....

       ”As a result of aggressive worldwide vaccinations, the similar, lethal viral disease, smallpox, stopped afflicting humans in 1975.   In the 1980s, nations of the world stopped vaccinating people, and that left mankind susceptible to smallpox like diseases.        One of them, monkeypox, has been “endemic in ten countries in west and central Africa” for a few decades.   The number of people who have become infected has steadily increased as people in those countries “more and more move into the forest to find food and build homes.” In 2022 there were more than 1000 known cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo alone.          In the wild, the illness is chiefly spread by squirrels, rats, and shrews.   (We only know of one case in a monkey.)   Several pharmaceutical firms have developed and produce smallpox vaccines.   Experts believe they will also prevent monkeypox.    ...