Every human is susceptible to viral infections. Given viruses’ ability to replicate quickly and change form to escape pharmaceuticals,
humans have been slow to conquer viruses.
Prescription medicines either don’t work, or work only for a short time, as is seen in HIV drug resistance.
|  | VIRMUNITY has been designed by physicians as Birth Control for Viruses.
The approach, in its simplicity, is novel.
Used early in an infection, it has the potential to completely prevent disease.
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|  For a variety of reasons, there has long been a culture of dismissal and neglect amongst governments and their regulatory and health authorities, in respect of the role that nutrient interventions play in human health and disease. The ANH Expert Committee on Avian Influenza stresses that the dismissal of nutritional therapies by these authorities could contribute to the unnecessary loss of tens of millions of lives, and that it is therefore vital that such skepticism, however it has arisen in the past, should be discarded and the data considered objectively and rationally. The WHO and national pandemic preparedness plans should therefore be urgently revised to take these factors into account, and the appropriate nutritional plans and protocols should be included as a standard part of pandemic influenza mitigation, prevention and management. The Committee asserts that if this does not occur, such a dismissal may come to be seen as one of the greatest acts of professional negligence in human history.
- The Pivotal Role for Natural Products in Countering an Avian Influenza Pandemic.
Alliance for Natural Health Avian Influenza Expert Committee. 2006.
The emergence of new infectious diseases and old diseases with new pathogenic properties is a burgeoning worldwide problem. Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV) are just two of the most widely reported recent emerging infectious diseases. What are the factors that contribute to the rapid evolution of viral species? Various hypotheses have been proposed, all involving opportunities for virus spread (for example, agricultural practices, climate changes, rainforest clearing or air travel). However, the nutritional status of the host, until recently, has not been considered a contributing factor to the emergence of infectious disease. In this review, we show that host nutritional status can influence not only the host response to the pathogen, but can also influence the genetic make-up of the viral genome. This latter finding markedly changes our concept of host-pathogen interactions and creates a new paradigm for the study of such phenomena.
- Host nutritional status: the neglected virulence factor.
Trends Microbiol. 2004 Sep;12(9):417-23.
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