If we follow, through press, what concerns this small fragment of RNA, nucleic acid, which represents the operating centre of the virus, we can’t do but be amazed and discover there is a kind of intelligence in all this (Intelligence of the Virus or Viral Intelligence ).
When we tell about an Intellgent Virus (viral intelligence), we don’t certainly mean it’s endowed with an intelligence of its own but, as an element of the ecosystem, it shares that intelligence which animates nature and the whole universe.
Besides man action, by introducing some circumstances completely extraneous to the natural habitat, favours the selection of the viruses sharing the Human Intelligence besides the one of Nature.
All HIV characteristics are carried out thanks to the stratagems the virus has thought up to deceive the immune system of the host: at the beginning it attacks the cells appointed to man defence thanks to a harpoon that clutches to the cell membrana and waits for penetrating it when it is defenceless. As long as water is present on the membrana, the virus remains silent but always alert, when finally it finds out fats it attacs pitiless.
HIV hides in lymph nodes and only after reproducing and getting a remarkable number of copies of itself, it attacks T lymphocytes, its main opponents; if it did so with the only initial infecting power, it should certainly be a loser.
According to Mario Clerici of the National Cancer Institute of Bethesda, when the host gets in touch with the virus for the first time, if the infecting power is low, only T lymphocytes that in this case can destroy the virus intervene, if, on the contrary, the infecting power is high T lymphocytes aren’t enough and B lymphocytes that are present can’t destroy HIV with their production of antibodies.
So HIV, by showing all its viral intelligence, can escape the first control and hides in lymph nodes where it starts reproducing.
Anthony Fauci of the NIH says: “soon after the infection the answer of the immune system that is activated to defend itself helps the virus in its destructive action”.
The hypothesis puts forward by a group of biochemists of Oxford University(G B) directed by Stephen Matthews is amazing,too. The virus owns a protein which can put together all the viral particles the host cell has built; once the virus is completely assembled is expelled from the cell.
The protein itself takes the nucleic acid of the virus to the operating centre of the host cell and here, after a specific transformation, the host cell starts working for the virus rather than for itself. Another system with which the virus exploits the immune system of the host to survive and multiply is the one of infecting two more types of cells of the system itself: monocytes and macrophages. These prove to be resistant to the cytotoxic action of the virus and since they survive, they let the latter survive and multiply.
Besides monocytes act like the wooden horses of Troy letting the virus they give hospitality to, go over the hemato-encephalic barrier causing, in a high percentage of cases,the encephalopathy by AIDS or dementia complex.
So HIV, after occupying the operating plants (DNA) of the cells charged with man defence from external attacks, forces them to produce some more viruses instead of normal defensive cells.
Once a good numerical force is obtained, always exploiting the cells of the immune system (monocytes and macrophages), the virus hits the brain (man operating plant). Likewise military strategy we must say HIV acts as the great leaders of the past. Monocytes and macrophages which should protect man, side with the virus not only by protecting it from other immune cells’ attacks, but they themselves become an important HIV reserve.
As if this weren’t enough it would be certain that, because of the great genetic variability which has been expressed by HIV during the period of latency, man cells would intervene to select the viral strains that grow better in certain types of tissue.
HIV biological variations which are more lymphotropic or macrophagetropic were isolated from infected individuals and it seems certain enough a cell-mediated selection may be involved in the emergency of these variations.
Practically man contributes with his own cells to select HIV strains which grow more easily in those human tissues where the virus has greater opportunities of surviving and multiplying: the advantage of these strains ie obvious when they pass to another individual.
Now it should be very interesting to discover how HIV can maintain a chronic infection for long time and, at the same time, multiply without any apparent damage for the host.
According to Klara Tenner-Racz, a lady doctor, of the Department of Hematology at the university of Hamburg, HIV has a self-regulation mechanism of its own: the production of defective viral particles (that is lacking in some essential component).
This way the virus self-mitigates its virulence and, by prolonging the survival of the primary host, has got more time at its disposal to infect new hosts.
The defective viral particles are produced in excess and compete with the normal ones in infecting a sound cell.
The defective viruses even if they don’t damage the host cell prevent the latter from being infected by a complete virus. This mechanism could explain the disease chronic progress.
The German researcher studied, under an electric microscope, the lymph nodes of 34 patients suffering from chronic generalized lymphadenopathy and noticed many defective viruses.
Exactly these anomalous HIVs are unprovided with the central nucleous containing the RNA and are only provided with the external nucleous. These anomalous viruses can penetrate a cell, but can’t reproduce.
There are defective particles, from 4 to 10, for every complete virus.
The presence of defective viruses could explain the disease slow evolution or even its non-evolution.
Another retrovirus, SIV (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus), very close to HIV, can rebuild a complete virus, beginning from a defective virus made in a laboratory.
As to what above mentioned it’s logical to speak of” viral intelligence”.
To be continued:
2) Viral intelligence 2°
Ferdinando Gargiulo offers you a new perspective on why new viral epidemics, assaults, infanticides, suicide epidemics and even environmental catastrophes. Always engaged in his research decides to create a blog to offer his readers content of high value.