The Cow Madness And The Prion Genius All that concerns the so called mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) just repeats what we have seen till now. An intensive animal breeding, an infective agent capable to pass to man and bring about Creutzefeldt-Jakob (C J)’s disease which can cause the death of the affected subjects in about six months or one year; and also various suspicions and denials, economic interests thwarting the search after truth.
Emerging Viruses 6°: Ebola Virus Another consideration coming from the recent epidemics of philoviruses (Ebola Virus-Emerging Viruses) is that just the means man made use of to treat diseases cause their outset and their spreading.
Emerging Viruses 5° Therefore also human species should be ready to carry out, in case of a pandemic caused by emerging viruses at very high mortality, the mechanism at genetic feedback. This way all the people, who are sensitive to the pathogen (emerging virus) should die and only the ones genetically resistant to the virus (emerging viruses) should survive. Obviously all this suggests the assertion of the already quoted theory David Pimentel expressed: “viruses and bacteria which attack an animal or a plant and live for long, don’t evolve towards types at high reproductivity and greater pathogenicity[1]” and again ” the evolution push is towards reproductive types which can give a balanced economy of supply and demand between prey species and preyed ones[2]”.
Emerging Viruses 4° Personally I think that also the trans-species jump of more viral strains of the same family (Emerging Viruses), at a different pathogenicity and virulence, is part of a definite plan or intelligence of Virus–Nature.
Emerging Viruses 3° Among the emerging viruses the most suitable example to our case is the Psittacosis one, an infective disease caused by viruses which are present in parrots. Till 1929 the disease was very rare, then in 1929-30 there was a sudden explosion of cases, contemporaneously, both in Europe and in North America. It was scientifically proved that the epidemic was connected to the import of parrots from South America to Europe and to North America where many new cases[1] occurred.
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