Professor Dimmock has spent more than two decades investigating an entirely new method, that uses a 'protecting virus'. This has now been shown to provide instant protection against all flu symptoms and to slow the development of an influenza infection to such an extent that harmful infections are transformed into a vaccine against that form of influenza.
'Protecting virus' has a significant alteration to one of the virus's genes. The genetic material of a flu virus consists of 8 individual segments of single stranded RNA. Professor Dimmock's protecting influenza virus has a huge but specific deletion of around 80% of the RNA of one of these 8 strands.
This deletion makes the virus harmless and prevents it from reproducing by itself within a cell, so that it cannot spread like a normal influenza virus. However, if it is joined in the cell by another influenza virus, it retains its harmless nature but starts to reproduce - and at a much faster rate than the new influenza virus. This fast reproduction rate - spurred by the new flu infection - means that the new invading influenza is effectively crowded out by the 'protecting virus'. This vastly slows the progress of the new infection, prevents flu symptoms, and gives the body time to develop an immune response to the harmful new invader. In effect the protecting virus converts the virulent virus into a harmless live vaccine.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)
― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)
― the Adversary (but, still, a friend of yours) (Uri Frendimein), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)
― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)
-- Shakey Mo Collier (audiobo...), October 4th, 2006 9:46 PM. (Shakey Mo Collier)
It doesn't matter if we all die.
-- Ned Raggett (ne...), October 4th, 2006 9:49 PM. (Ned)
This is an interesting thing to think about. If there were no women (or men) on the planet, but you had a stock of porn, would it even be exciting anymore? Or would it be so far into the realm of fantasy that it would lose all it's charm? You might as well masturbate while looking at a rainbow, since you have about the same chance of fucking it.
― the Adversary (but, still, a friend of yours) (Uri Frendimein), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 23:59 (nineteen years ago)
― ok, maybe 2 posts a day if I'm good (Haberdager), Thursday, 5 October 2006 00:04 (nineteen years ago)
― NokiyaUp (jergins), Thursday, 5 October 2006 00:05 (nineteen years ago)
-- the Adversary (but, still, a friend of yours) (john@fakemail.com), October 4th, 2006.
Pretend philosophy, not interesting, thx.
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 5 October 2006 00:14 (nineteen years ago)
― oops (Oops), Thursday, 5 October 2006 00:20 (nineteen years ago)
― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Thursday, 5 October 2006 00:26 (nineteen years ago)
― the Adversary (but, still, a friend of yours) (Uri Frendimein), Thursday, 5 October 2006 00:40 (nineteen years ago)
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He was jerkin' off to the sunset.
― the Adversary (but, still, a friend of yours) (Uri Frendimein), Thursday, 5 October 2006 00:42 (nineteen years ago)
http://www.vap.co.jp/rainbow/images/rainbow.jpg
― C J (C J), Thursday, 5 October 2006 07:07 (nineteen years ago)
― Baaderonixx in the year of the locusts (baaderonixx), Thursday, 5 October 2006 07:32 (nineteen years ago)