Getting rid of the corona virus with thin air
Scientists know this and have studied it for several decades. The
problem is that the general public don’t ever hear about this, and
you’re certainly not going to read about it in the newspaper.
I’m talking about negative ions and their ability, quite simply, to kill flu viruses and other bugs of all descriptions.
In 2015, a group of scientists from the University of Linköping, the
Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and even the Swedish Institute for
Communicable Disease Control, carried out an intriguing study.
In this study, the team wanted to test the effect of a modified
ionizer device on the infection rate of a flu virus through airborne
transmission among a sample size of guinea pigs.
In this study, the team used a 12-volt ionizing device, which
generated negative ions. This gives a negative charge to any airborne
particles or aerosol droplets and electrostatically attracts them to a
positively charged collector plate, where they are captured.
This machine was tested with airborne droplets of an airborne
transmitted influenza A (strain Panama 99) virus infection, which easily
infects guinea pigs.
This flu and several other viruses, were attracted to the collective
plate, which inactivated more than 97 per cent of the viruses. In the
end, 100 percent of the guinea pigs were protected from infection (Sci
Rep, 2015; 5: 11431).
A decade earlier, a team at the University of Leeds in the UK tested
the use of a negative air ionizer in an intensive care ward at St
James’s Hospital in Leeds over a year to see if it could eliminate the
spread of Acinetobacter bacteria, which is notoriously resistant to
antibiotics and dangerous to people with compromised immune systems.
To their astonishment, the infection rate fell to zero during the
year-long trial. In fact, the results were so good that Stephen Dean,
one of the consultants at St James’s said ,“The results have been
fantastic – so much so that we have asked the university to leave the
ionizers with us.”
An ion forms when a molecule encounters enough energy to unleash an
electron. They are also created by rainfall, air pressure, forces
emitted during a waterfall and the friction from large volumes of air
moving rapidly over a land mass, as during so-called ill winds, such as
El Niño or Santa Anas of southern California.
Both positive and negative ions are equivalent to a tiny pulse of
static electricity, and the air that we breathe is made up of billions
of these tiny charges.
Ionizers produce negative air ions, which seek out suspended
particles and give them a charge.
Although the Leeds scientists don’t
completely understand how the bacteria got killed, they suspect that
these charged particles attract and then aggregate with the viruses and
then fall out of the air, thereby disinfecting the atmosphere and
stopping the transmission of infection.
And if that’s so, the scientists would expect to find a higher
percentage of Acinetobacter bacteria coalescing on surfaces, which is
exactly what happened.
Clinical microbiologist Keven Kerr, one of the other Leeds team
members, remarked: “Ionizers may become a powerful weapon in the fight
against hospital acquired infection. People had focused on getting
doctors and nurses to wash their hands and had not looked at anything
else.”
In 2002, the company Sharp presented evidence at a conference that
their air conditioners, which include a plasmacluster air purification
system, had the ability to inactivate viruses, including flu,
essentially through the same method.
At the time, John Oxford, a flu expert at Barts and the London School
of Medicine and Dentistry, examined Sharp’s evidence and declared it
sound. He even thought that the system should be used in doctors'
waiting rooms. But at the time, the plasmacluster technology was only
available in Japan.
And then in 2004, working with Director and Visiting Professor Tatsuo
Suzuki PhD and Assistant Director Noritada Kobayashi PhD of the
Kitasato Institute Medical Center Hospital, considered one of the
world’s most prestigious viral research organizations, Sharp
demonstrated that their plasmacluster technology inactivated the feline
corona virus (FCoV), a member of the corona virus family. In their study
99.7 percent of the virus was rendered inactive within 40 minutes.
Sharp claimed that their technology had proven effective against a
host of pathogens, including human corona virus, SARS and flu.
So why isn’t this equipment in every hospital across the world?
Instead of trying to outlaw journalists trying to uncover possible
treatments for this pandemic, why isn’t the standard media doing its job
and looking into this further?
You may well ask.
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Killing coronavirus on contact
Yesterday we held the first of four free webinars, Supercharge
Yourself Against Coronavirus, and one of the three doctors we were
interviewing revealed how a cheap and simple substance we can all get
hold of can kill viruses like COVID-19.
The doctor was Dr Sarah Myhill, a general practitioner practicing out
of rural Wales, who worked for the National Health Service for 20 years
before setting up in private practice to concentrate more on the root
cause of her patients’ illnesses, concentrating on diet, micronutrient
status, allergies and lifestyle changes.
Dr Myhill is now one of the world’s experts in treating ME/chronic
fatigue, but in her long practice she has seen and treated virtually
every type of illness, many of them the result of infections.
The potent virus killer she was referring to is the cheap and simple
Lugol’s iodine, so named because it was developed by the French doctor,
J. G. A. Lugol, who first mixed iodine and potassium iodine in water
with the intention of using it as a disinfectant.
To this day, this form of iodine is used as an antiseptic on patients
and in operating rooms because it kills bugs of every description but
in low doses is non-toxic to the body’s cells involved with healing.
‘Indeed, studies show it enhances healing,’ writes Dr. Myhill in her book The Infection Game – Life is an Arms Race. ‘This is why the surgeons love it. Skin painted with iodine before incision does not get infected and heals perfectly.’
Dr Myhill considers iodine one of the tools that has revolutionized
her practice. ‘Like vitamin C it contact-kills all microbes. It is the
only agent that is consistently active against gram positive and
gram-negative bacteria, mycobacteria, spores, amoebic cysts, fungi,
protozoa, yeasts, drug-resistant bacteria such as MRSA and viruses.’
The science bears this out.
After the outbreak of the MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome)
virus in the Middle East, scientists concluded that human-to-human
transmission of the virus required close contact, which mainly occurred
in healthcare settings. Doctors were keen to find a substance that could
prevent such transmission.
A team from the Institute of Virology, Infectious Diseases and
Epidemiology and the Philipps University of Marburg in Germany decided
to carry out a study (Infect Dis Ther.
2015 Dec; 4(4): 491–501) using very low doses of iodine as a skin
cleanser, a surgical scrub and a mouthwash gargle against two types of
viruses: A Modified vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA) and the MERS virus.
In both instances, the team were able to inactivate levels of virus corresponding to more than 99.99 percent.
Other papers have noted that evidence shows that iodine has a
generally a 99.99 percent virus-killing activity against a number of
widespread and worrying viruses, including hepatitis A, SARS (Sudden
Acute Respiratory Syndrome) coronavirus Enterovirus 71, Coxsackievirus
A16 and, yes, influenza.
‘For over 60 years, povidone iodine formulations [a more potent form
of iodine than Lugol’s] have been shown to limit the impact and spread
of infectious diseases,’ writes German virologist Maren Eggers (Infectious Diseases and Therapy, 2019; 8: 581-93).
Dr Myhill goes further: ‘There is no virus that is resistant to iodine.’
In fact, the World Health Organization includes iodine on its list of essential medicines.
The other interesting fact about iodine is that bugs don’t appear to
have developed resistance to it, as they have to so many other
disinfectants and antibiotics.
Lugol's Iodine Solution is usually taken transdermally — through the
skin. It’s available in varying strengths. But Dr Myhill has two unique
suggestions for coronavirus.
If you’re worried about catching coronavirus from the mailman or
anyone else, she says, ‘Make up what I call iodine oil. Coconut also
contact-kills COVID virus. If solid, soften some coconut oil and add 10
parts of coconut oil to 1 part of Lugol’s iodine. (Lugol’s comes in
varying strengths, from 5 to 15 percent, but any strength will do.) It
will make a yellowly liquid paste.
‘With any foreign contact, rub a marble size amount into your hands,
forearm and around your face,’ says Dr Myhill. ‘That will contact-kill
the virus in a few seconds. And it will stick to your door handle, or
car door and kill virus there too.’
If you’re worried that you’ve inhaled droplets or you’re showing
signs of coronavirus, says Dr Myhill, ‘Use a salt pipe. This is simply a
clay pot filled with sea salt that can be used as an inhaler.
‘Drizzle Lugol’s 15 percent iodine 1-4 drops (whatever is tolerated)
into the mouthpiece – sniff this through the nose and exhale through the
mouth. Keep going until the iodine smell is gone (about 20 sniffs).
‘Do this at least three times daily but as often as you can according
to the severity of the infection. In the short term expect to see more
catarrh as the body sweeps out the dead microbes.’
Dr Myhill has used this on a number of patients with serious
respiratory infections and it has worked very swiftly to get them
better.
Once again, we may not have to wait for antivirals or vaccines. Nature has provided us with a cheap and plentiful virus killer.
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