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Second Thoughts about Viruses, Vaccines, and the HIV/

AIDS Hypothesis - Part 1

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Keywords: Vaccines; Vaccination; Virus; HIV; AIDS; Ebola; Hunta
virus; Hepatitis C; Pleomorphism; Yeast; Candida albicans; Koch’s Volume 2 Issue 3 - 2016
postulate; Farr’s law; Virology; Louis Pasteur; Antione BeChamp;
Microzyma
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against this threat and no method is left untried to suppress it.
People resist it in every way possible: pretending not to have
heard about it; speaking disparagingly of it, as if it were not even with protein coverings, and having no inherent reproductive
worth the effort of looking into the matter. And so a new truth can ability, viruses depend upon the host for replication. They must
have a long wait before finally being accepted.”-Goethe utilize the nucleic acids of living cells they infect to reproduce
their proteins (i.e., trick the host into producing them), which are
Introduction then assembled into new viruses like cars on an assembly line.
The first isolation of a virus was achieved in 1892 by Russian Theoretically, this is their only means of surviving and infecting
bacteria hunter Dimitri Iwanowski, who gathered fluid from new cells or hosts.
diseased tobacco plants. He passed this liquid through a filter
Birth of Virology-a Miscarriage?
fine enough to retain bacteria; yet to Iwanowski’s surprise, the
bacteria-free filtrate easily made healthy plants sick. In 1898 Underlying the birth of virology was the doctrine of
a Dutch botanist, Martinus Willem Beijerinck, repeating the monomorphism-that all microorganisms (herein called
experiment, also recognized that there was an invisible cause and microforms) are fixed species, unchangeable; that each
named the infectious agent “tobacco mosaic virus.” In the same pathological type produces (usually) only one specific disease;
year as Beijerinck’s report, two German scientists purified a liquid that microforms never arise endogenously, i.e., have absolute
containing filterable viruses that caused foot-and-mouth disease origin within the host; and that blood and tissues are sterile under
in cattle (viruses were at one time called “filterable viruses,” but healthy conditions. This last point warrants immediate comment.
eventually the term “filterable” came to apply only to viruses, Theoretically, under ideal health conditions the blood might be
and was dropped). Walter Reed followed in 1901 with a filtrate sterile, though it has the inherent potential to develop morbid
responsible for yellow fever, and soon dozens of other disease- microforms, as discussed in the main text of this book. Long and
causing viruses were found. repeated observation of live blood in the phase-contrast, dark-
field microscope, however, shows that the blood can contain
In 1935 another American, Wendell M. Stanley, went back to
various microforms in an otherwise asymptomatic host, or in
the beginning and created pure crystals of tobacco mosaic virus
a condition defined as normal or healthy in orthodox terms.
from a filtered liquid solution. He affirmed that these crystals
The forms are easily visible before other physical symptoms
could easily infect plants, and concluded that a virus was not a
arise. (Since long and repeated observation has correlated their
living organism, since it could be crystallized like salt and yet
presence with other disease symptoms and their disappearance
remain infectious. Subsequently, bacteriologists all over the world
with the return of health, they serve as indicators of impending
began filtering for viruses, and a new area of biology was born-
outward signs of disease.)
virology.
Monomorphism was the cornerstone of developments in
Historically, medical science has vacillated on the question of
20th-century medical research and treatments. Refusal by the
whether a virus is alive. Originally it was described as nonliving,
mainstream to examine fairly, much less accept, the demonstrated
but is currently said to be an extremely complex molecule or an
facts of pleomorphism-that viruses and bacteria (and also yeast
extremely simple microorganism, and is usually referred to as
and fungi) are evolutions from the microzyma; that microforms
a parasite having a cycle of life. (The term “killed” is applied to
can rapidly change their form (evolve and “devolve”) in vivo, one
certain viral vaccines, thus implying an official conviction that
becoming another dependent upon conditions in the inner terrain
viruses live.) Commonly composed of either DNA or RNA cores

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(environment); that blood and tissues are not necessarily sterile; My studies and research suggest that the complexes science
and that there are no specific diseases, but only specific disease calls viruses and retroviruses originate in the cell as microzymian
conditions-was the foundation of a latter day “Galileo debate.” principle suggests. However, they are created in response to an
It is so called because those who wore the “robes” of scientific alarming situation (condition of disease) for the purpose of genetic
authority, reprising the religious fanatics who punished the noted repair. They are repair proteins evolved from anatomical elements
astronomer for his truths, would not be swayed from folly when (microzymas), not pathogenic organisms.
presented with its contrary proofs. These proofs began in earnest
It is known that normal cell activity includes genetic repair.
with Antoine Bechamp in the last century (who also endured the
Both enzymes and proteins must be involved. What is the
indignation of a fanatical clergy).
mechanism? Viruses are organized around DNA or RNA, not both.
In the early third of the 20th century, the heated debate took Thus, they are quite probably intended to repair genetic molecules
place over filterable bacteria versus non-filterable. This was a or other structures, and show up with disease symptoms because
major battle concerning micromorphology (discussed briefly the body needs them. Since viruses require a living cell/host
below). The orthodox view prevailed: bacterial forms were not for reproduction, how do we know that the scenario is not set
small enough to pass, or did not have a smaller, earlier stage. in motion for a purpose by the cell (i.e., its microzymas), rather
What passed through “bacteria-proof filters was something else, than being the result of invasion? Because disease (disturbance of
i.e., viruses. Standard medical textbooks long made this fettering balance in the organism) is so prevalent, especially that which has
distinction between bacteria and viruses. Subsequently, however, not yet become indicated by common symptoms, repair proteins
the cellular nature of many filterable forms originally thought to may be frequently or constantly present. A toxified cell may easily
be viruses, such as some mycoplasmas, rickettsias, and various suffer localized damage to the genome. Since most observers are
other groups, has been established. In this writer’s opinion, with not even aware of microzymian principle, much less understand
the victory of the monomorphic view, deeper understanding or even consider it, and since monomorphism stresses invasion,
of infectious “disease” was lost, setting the stage for cancer, these protein complexes are regarded as foreign and disease is
degenerative symptoms and AIDS. attributed to them.

What You See? Another note of interest is the size of viruses compared to the
microzyma. Viruses are considered to be some of the smallest
A typical bacterium is about 1 micron in size. Most filterable biological particles and are frequently of colloidal size: e.g.,
forms now called viruses range in size from .3 microns (300 hepatitis A, 27 nanometers (.027 microns); hepatitis B (.042
millimicrons) to .01 micron (10 millimicrons)-partially in the microns); poliovirus (.03 microns); EBV (.042 microns); fflV
colloidal range (.1 to .001 micron). Most of the larger viruses (.080 to .12 microns), influenza (.08 to .12 microns); mumps (.15
are a third to a quarter the size of the average bacterium. Size is to .30 microns); smallpox (.30 x .24 microns); and, according to
critical because .3 microns is the resolution limit of modern-day Bechamp, the microzyma (.0005 microns). This coincides with
light microscopes (except for the claimed resolution of Canadian what Gaston Naessens says about the size of his somatid, which
microscopist Gaston Naessens’ Somatoscope, at .015 microns). ranges from “a few Angstroms to a tenth of a micron” [1].
Thus, as viruses were discovered (except for the very large ones,
such as mumps), they required an electron microscope to be seen, In his book, The Blood and Its Third Anatomical Element,
especially given the fact that Royal Rife’s microscope technology Bechamp states: “The microzyma is at the beginning and at
and career were destroyed by vested interests. Unfortunately, the end of all organization. It is the fundamental anatomical
electron microscopes and the process of chemical staining element whereby the cellules, the tissues, the organs, the whole
disorganize all specimens, whereas Rife’s technology allowed of an organism are constituted living. ... In a state of health the
life to proceed and thus evolve under its lens. As viruses became microzymas act harmoniously and our life is, in every meaning
visible to advancing technology, the ramification was that the of the word, a regular fermentation. In the condition of disease,
technology revealed, to minds infected with monomorphism, the microzymas do not act harmoniously, the fermentation is
protein structures deemed foreign to the body. disturbed, the microzymas have either changed their function
or are placed in an abnormal situation by some modification of
A New Theory the medium”[2]. The virus is either a self-ordered microzymian
polymerization, or (less likely) a structure made by microzymas.
Formulated by Bechamp in the 19th century, microzymian
It is enveloped in protein which is also composed of microzymas,
principle is the basis of a new theory about “viruses.” Briefly,
and could well be thought of as an autonomous molecular tool
this principle holds that in all living organisms are biologically
box.
indestructible anatomical elements, which he called microzymas.
They are independently living organized ferments, capable of Along with Drs. Glen Dettman and Archie Kalokerinos, I
producing enzymes and capable of evolution into more complex wonder, “whether Bechamp’s writing anticipated, in some
microforms, such as bacteria. Bechamp’s thesis is that disease is respects, the discovery of RNA and DNA?” Could the genetic
a condition of one’s internal environment (terrain); that disease structure be the construct, thus a tool, of the microzyma? They
(and its symptoms) are “born of us and in us”; and that disease quote a personal communication (1974) from a Professor Bayev
is not produced by an attack of microentities but calls forth their of the USSR Academy of Sciences, who discusses his work showing
endogenous evolution. (The common biological basis for this is that molecular self-restoration from its parts of pure transfer RNA
discussed below.). from brewer’s yeast is possible [3].

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In my own research I have found molecular restorations third-stage microforms degenerate the body’s vital substances
similar to that described by Bayev. In my experiment I used five- and tissues via putrefaction (bacteria) and fermentation (yeast
year-old coagulated capillary blood from a woman with cancer. and fungus). Fermentation results in acid waste products, which
With one drop of 0.9% of sodium chloride, the blood was restored further break down tissue. Disease symptoms, then, especially the
to an appearance and level of activity characteristic of a freshly degenerative type, are not produced by viruses, but manifest as
drawn sample. In other words, the anatomical microzymas of the chemical decomposition, or attempted recycling via fermentation
dried blood were restored to activity. Even the white globules and acid toxins, but with “host” survival processes still operable.
became active. One might eagerly ask for an explanation of the Obviously, certain other factors may play important roles in
reversal of polymers made during clotting. It is unclear at this producing symptoms, such as heavy metal toxicity, or state of
point how this reversal takes place, except to say that what can mind, for example. Some of the body’s survival methods also
evolve apparently has the potential to devolve. It is observable, produce symptoms commonly called diseases. An example is
however. For example, I have seen, and recorded on video, rod eczema, an emergency expulsion of acid toxins via the skin.
microforms retrograding without any visible decomposition from
The aforementioned causal (alarming) situation, or modification
10 microns in length to the vicinity of .1 micron.
of the medium, is chronic acidification (pH imbalance) and oxygen
This research supports the very important postulate that the deprivation in the blood and tissues due to acid-forming foods,
cell is not the smallest living biological unit, as promulgated by adverse lifestyle, emotional stress, and environmental stress. This
conventional medical science. In fact, a smaller biological unit is is not oversimplification. Acidification/hypoxia biochemically
the imperishable microzyma, which is an organized, living being signals a dead host to the microzymas, while creating collapsed
“of a special category without analogue,” said Bechamp, who areas (dead zones) of the colloidal system in the intercellular
found them ready to become active in chalk deposits at least 11 fluid, and it is the primary physiological disease condition out of
million years old [4]. which the symptoms commonly called specific diseases arise.

The Pleomorphic Cycle Thus, we distinguish between this disease condition and its
consequent symptoms, which include both the morbidly evolved
I suggest a developmental cycle in vivo consisting of three microzymas and the physiological signs commonly, thought
macrostages: (1) a primitive stage comprising the repair protein of as specific diseases. As they develop, microforms (bacteria,
complexes; (2) an intermediate, or bacterial, stage including yeast, fungus and mold) are actually scavenging forms of the
filterable forms such as the cell-wall deficient forms described microzyma, developed when disease in the cell life requires tissue
by Lida Mattman, Ph.D. (in Cell Wall Deficient Forms, Stealth to be broken up. These upper development forms are the ones
Pathogens); and (3) a culmination stage consisting of yeast and easily visible in the blood before physical symptoms arise. They
fungal phases, and then mold, the end phase. The usual course disappear (devolve) when the recycling task is complete, once
of development would be from microzyma to repair protein and again becoming microzymas of the earth and/or air.
then to bacterium, etc. However, under certain conditions, such
as trauma for example, it is highly likely that the microzymas can Virus or Toxin?
skip the primitive stage and become bacteria directly. Although
Regarding the early period of virus isolation, a question
these transformations are as astounding as that of a larva to a
is whether the unseen entities isolated in filtered fluids were
butterfly, what is equally impressive under observation is the
accompanied by the waste products (mycotoxins) of fermentation
rapidity with which they can take place-in minutes, even seconds,
by yeast and fungus of cellular elements, such as DNA. If virus
and sometimes. By the same token, when provoked by conditions
filtrates are injected into a host to prove virulence, it is almost
and the cycle proceeds to yeast, fungus and then mold, it may
certain that easily filterable molecular toxins will be introduced
occur so rapidly that the bacterial stage, if it happens, has no time
as well. Could Dr. Stanley’s “pure crystals of tobacco mosaic
to be of any significance.
virus” have been crystallized toxins? If so, they would certainly
Thus, symptogenic microforms can originate within higher be highly symptogenic, as are exotoxins at the intermediate stage
organisms without invasion, via a permutation of the endogenous of the cycle, for example. However, it is not proof of anything that
microzymas when the situation calls for such change. The situation you can create illness by poison injection, except proof of that
is an imbalance referred to by Bechamp as a “modification of the tautological fact.
medium.” Endogenous evolution is evident under the microscope
In my research utilizing dark-field and phase-contrast
when bacterial, yeast, and fungal forms are seen coming out of red
microscopy, it is common to see crystallizations in the blood.
blood cells which initially appear normal.
It is normal for the body to use calcium or other mineral salts,
Biological Basis for the Pleomorphic Cycle and fats as well, to chelate the waste products from the morbid
fermentation of body proteins, fats and sugars. Such crystal
There is a common biological basis for the pleomorphic cycle deposits are found in cancer tissue as well. A malignant tumor
and its increasing complexity of organization: More complex removed from the breast of one of my research clients was found
forms evolve inherently upon the death of an organism for the to have numerous calcium deposits attached to it. It is an attempt
purpose of recycling its anatomical and chemical structures in the to render inactive the substances that make our inner streams
carbon cycle. The process of rapid evolution (which is reversible) filthy, poison our cells, and coagulate colloidal systems in blood
is an essential life process which, beyond the repair stage, is and intercellular fluid.
necessary to return a dead organism to the earth. The second and

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The term “virus” is the Latin word for poison, and gives us bacteria there could be no other living thing in the world; for every
insight into the immediate cause of disease symptoms-poisons: animal and plant owes its existence to the fertility of the soil, and
mycotoxins, endotoxins, exotoxins, and toxins from environmental this in turn depends upon the activity of the micro-organisms
sources (many of which are primary or secondary mycotoxins). which inhabit the soil in almost inconceivable numbers. It is one of
Orthodox medicine is well aware that it is bacterial toxins more the main objects of this article to show how true is this statement;
than the bacteria themselves (they feed in us), that cause the there will be found in it only passing reference to the organisms
symptoms referred to as infectious disease. Little if any emphasis which produce disease in man and animals- for information on
is placed on this fine but important distinction. Always, the germ is these see Pathology and Immunity.
emphasized. There is little to no awareness (or acknowledgment),
The general message of the foregoing article applies even more
either, of the same role played by toxins of the culminate
aptly to viruses in the sense that much fear has been bred and
microforms of the pleomorphic cycle. Their action and the body’s
cultivated around them, although they never produce disease
response to them are frequently ascribed to viruses, which do
symptoms, whereas some bacteria do. The writer of the above
not produce toxins but are said to wreak havoc by a number of
understands bacteria, with the exceptions that symptogenic
other means. However, if they participate in symptogenesis in a
bacteria found in man and animals do not produce disease (only
host it is because they are stimulated to evolve into more complex,
secondary symptoms), that their precursors are endogenous to
toxigenic forms. Somewhat less likely is the possibility that they
higher organisms, and they have not “developed in such a way
cause damage as a result of erroneous construction or function,
that they can live in the human body.” If anything, the reverse is
for one reason or another-missing mineral nutrients leading to
true. According to one theory of microbiology, microforms have
enzyme deficiencies, for example.
colonized over eons to become higher organisms. In one sense,
Misconception Breeds Contempt then, the human body has developed as a specialized environment
for them.
In addition to chemical toxicity, however, what is the impact
of the fear (emotional toxicity) that the word “virus” brings to An important dimension of the bacterial dependence of higher
mind and heart? It has been said that fear is the most deadly of life forms is the floral population in the human digestive tract.
disease conditions. If a “disease” kills one person, the fear of it Literally, these “foreign species” keep us alive.
may kill twenty. General prejudice concerning the danger of Most bacteria have the same underlying function, whether
viruses is fundamental biological error based on Louis Pasteur’s found in soil, sewage, in the human digestive tract, or elsewhere
germ theory, and is itself a perpetrator of auto-suggested illness. in nature: they are an essential part of the life processes of higher
For example, in Africa doctors attribute some AIDS sickness organisms. They will not or cannot attack healthy cells or tissues,
to “voodoo death” syndrome, the term for illnesses induced but certain ones will recycle sick or dead tissue in much the same
psychologically. According to one nurse, “We had people who way insect pests are drawn to weaker plants. As Bechamp said,
were symptomatically AIDS patients. They were dying of AIDS, “Nothing is the prey of death; all things are the prey of life.”
but when they were tested and found out they were negative they
suddenly rebounded and are now perfectly healthy” [5]. Ironically, Following in the wake of misconceptions arising from the
if the germ theory were founded on facts it would be correct to fundamental biological error known as the germ theory of disease,
fear viruses, except there would be few, if any, humans living defining the filtrates of diseased tissue as a newly discovered
to discuss the issues. These so called pathogenic entities are to infectious microform was the birth of a major corollary error in
researchers, medical practitioners and the press what criminals bioscience.
are to detectives-the focus and justification of their existence.
Viral Behaviour Reconsidered
The Encyclopaedia Britannica has this to say about Listed below are ways viruses are said to disrupt or destroy
bacteria, which relates also to viruses host cells according to orthodox medical science and the germ
The common idea of bacteria in the minds of most people is theory. Following each in italics is a different interpretation
that of a hidden and sinister scourge lying in wait for mankind. following from microzymian principle:
This popular conception is born of the fact that attention was first i. Viral proteins insert into the host cell’s plasma membrane
focused upon bacteria through the discovery, some 70 years ago, and directly damage its integrity to promote cell fusion (HIV,
of the relationship of bacteria to disease in man, and that in its measles, and herpes viruses).
infancy the study of bacteriology was a branch of medical science.
Relatively few people assign to bacteria the important position in Proteins are attempting to repair membrane damage, or
the world of living things that they rightly occupy, for it is only a enter cells to make other repairs. There is the question as
few of the bacteria known today that have developed in such a to whether viruses on cell walls are coming or going. In
way that they can live in the human body, and for every one of both cases it would be a matter of whether or not a cell
this kind, there are scores of others which are perfectly harmless has been disturbed by excess fermentation and acidity. But
and far from being regarded as the enemies of mankind, must be in the former case the cell would be dysfunctional before
numbered among his best friends. attachment occurs, thus requiring the repair complex.
Another possibility, perhaps remote, is that dysfunctional
It is in fact no exaggeration to say that upon the activities of receptors on cells are in need of repair, or they are covered
bacteria the very existence of man depends; indeed, without by these complexes to inactivate malfunctioning cells.

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Positive electrical charges in a compromised terrain, symptoms. Not recognizing the “virus,” for what it is,
primarily on acid molecules from fermentations, discharge observers attribute disease to it.
cell membranes and act as mortar to stick cells together.
viii. Host cell responses to viruses include metabolic
ii. Viruses inhibit host cell DNA, RNA, or protein synthesis. derangements and transformations resulting in neoplastic
For example, poliovirus inactivates cap-binding protein, changes.
which is essential for protein synthesis directed by capped
Metabolic derangement has occurred prior to the appearance
host cell mRNAs, while allowing protein synthesis from
of repair proteins, due to toxic overload in the cell. It
uncapped poliovirusmRNAs.
is more likely that the proteins attempt to prevent cell
Protein inactivation is probably being done by fermentation transformation, and that cancerous development is cell
or by acidic toxins from fermentation, while “poliovirus” is conversion from primarily oxidative to wholly fermentative
produced in the cell to reverse the damage. metabolism, mediated by fungus and mold.
iii. Viruses replicate efficiently and lyse host cells, e.g., liver Listed below are further orthodox views regarding virus
cells by yellow fever, and neurons by polio virus. replication, etc., with alternative interpretations in italics.
Highly unlikely. The lysing is more likely caused by acid ix. According to orthodox theory, viruses enter a host cell and
mycotoxicosis, or by free radicals (ROTS) released in replicate at the host’s expense. Replication is accomplished
response to mycotoxic stress, or from other sources (ionizing using enzymes which are distinct for each virus family. For
radiation, for example). Repair particles are residual after example, RNA polymerase is used by negative-stranded
cell wall disruption. RNA viruses to generate positive-stranded mRNA, whereas
reverse transcriptase is used by retroviruses to generate
iv. Slow-virus infections (eg. sub acute sclerosing
DNA from their RNA template and to integrate that DNA into
panencephalitis, caused by the measles virus) culminate in
the host genome.
severe progressive diseases after a long latency period.
It is normal for repair proteins to generate enzymes to do
How is this demonstrated? Perhaps “latency” is a period
their work
of successful or attempted repair that eventually falters.
Symptomology naturally appears in the weakest parts of x. One reason suggested for viral tropism (the tendency to
the body. Excess acidity is always a systemic problem that infect some cells but not others) is the presence or absence
localizes, just as cancer is a systemic condition that localizes, of host cell receptors that allow the virus to attach. It is said,
even though its symptogenic influence may later spread. for example, that HIV binds to the protein (CD4) involved
with antigen presentation on helper T-lymphocytes, that
v. Viral antigen proteins on the surface of the host cells are
Epstein-Barr virus binds to the complement receptor (CD2)
recognized by the immune system, and the host lymphocytes
on macrophages, that rabies virus binds to the acetylcholine
attack the virus-infected cells (e.g., liver cells infected with
receptor on neurons, and that rhinoviruses bind to the
hepatitis B).
adhesion protein (ICAM-1) on mucosal cells.
Liver cells are damaged beyond repair by mycotoxicosis,
Theoretically, once attached, the entire virion, or a portion
and the immune system, our elaborate janitorial service, is
containing the genome and essential polymerases,
cleaning up the garbage. Perhaps the repair protein antigen
penetrates into the cell cytoplasm in one of three ways:
is expressed to signal immune response (because the cell is
(1) Translocation of the entire virus across the plasma
beyond repair), which is one explanation for why there are
membrane; (2) receptor-mediated endocytosis of the virus
antibodies to these proteins.
and fusion with endosomal membranes; or (3) fusion of the
vi. Viruses damage cells involved in host antimicrobial defense, viral envelope with the cell membrane. Theory suggests
leading to secondary infections. that within the cell the virus uncoats, separating its genome
from its structural components and losing its infectivity
The function of immune cells is damaged by fungal infestation before replication. In either the nucleus or cytoplasm,
and/or overwork by toxic overload, preventing proper newly synthesized viral genomes and capsid proteins
cleanup and elimination of disharmonious, symptogenic are assembled into progeny virions, which may then bud
elements. through the plasma membrane. Unencapsulated viruses
vii. Viral killing of one cell type causes the death of other cells may be released also, directly through the membrane.
that depend on them, e.g., degeneration of muscle cells It is interesting, however, that viruses can somehow choose
enervated by the attack of poliovirus on motor neurons. the “infection” to be abortive, latent or persistent, meaning
Once again, a misinterpretation and lack of understanding respectively: (1) viral infections with incomplete replication
that it is not viral microforms that damage neurons. cycles; (2) persisting in a cryptic state, like herpes zoster
Toxins from bacteria, yeast, fungus and mold-as well as within a dorsal root ganglion, which suddenly becomes
the fermentation of glucose, proteins, hormones and active to produce shingles; (3) continuously synthesized
fats-produce, or influence the body to produce, disease virions, with or without altered cell function (eg. hepatitis

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B). These three ideas, especially latency, have arisen as Kalokerinos and Dettman quote Dr. Fred Klenner regarding
feeble excuses for the untenable virus theory. the changeability of viruses: “I am of the opinion that virus units
have the potential of going from one type to another by altering
xi. In order for viruses to reproduce, they must complete the
their protein coat. We see chicken pox at Thanksgiving, mumps
following four steps:
at Christmas, red measles in the spring, and polio and Coxsackie
a) Adsorption and penetration of a cell. The viral particle in the summer”[6]. Seasonal appearance of different forms may
binds to the host cell membrane. This is usually a specific be mediated by variations of imbalance in the biological terrain
interaction in which a viral encoded protein on the capsid or nutritive medium due to the fermentation of dietary excesses
or a glycoprotein embedded in the virion envelope binds such as sugar and animal proteins that accompany holidays and
to a host cell membrane receptor and is then internalized. seasons, calling for different repair proteins.
This internalization occurs by endocytosis or by fusion of
For example, outbreaks of polio have been associated with
the virion envelope with the host cell membrane.
sugar consumption in summer. Various psycho-emotional stresses
b) This is the mechanism whereby the viral particle enters correspond to these seasons as well.
the cell for the purposes of carrying out repairs to the
Supporting the general idea of dietary culpability is a statement
damaged DNA or RNA.
published by the great English physician, Sir Robert McCarrison in
c) Uncoating of the virus, so that the nucleic acid can be 1936: “Obsessed with the invisible microbe, virus, protozoa as all
released from the capsid into the nucleus or cytoplasm. important excitants of disease, subservient to laboratory methods
of diagnosis, hidebound by our system of nomenclature, we often
Repair work may require uncoating. An uncoated “virus” in forget the most fundamental of all rules for the physician, that the
the cytoplasm may have come from the nucleus and not right kind of food (nutrition) is the most important single factor
yet have a coat, as in the case of hepatitis B according to in the promotion of health and the wrong kind of food the most
med science. A coat is then created to protect the nucleic important single factor in the promotion of disease”[7].
acid, to make a communicative or responsive protein
complex, or to allow exiting the cell for remote function Six years before Bechamp identified the microzyma as a
or for neutralization and recycling by the immune system. ferment and, with his devoted associate, Professor Estor, began a
13-year odyssey of research into its nature, Florence Nightingale
d) Synthesis and assembly of viral products as well as published a statement about the germ theory. In Notes on Nursing,
inhibition of the host cell’s own DNA, RNA and protein 1st ed., 1860, she said of infection:
synthesis.
“Diseases are not individuals arranged in classes, like cats and
Protein complexes produced in response to an alarming dogs, but conditions growing out of one another.
situation-fermentative and mycotoxic stress-are capable
of self-ordered replication. As suggested by Bechamp, the Is it not living in a continual mistake to look upon diseases, as
microzyma is specific for each organ, therefore specific we do now, as separate entities, which must exist, like cats and
repair proteins will be needed for specific cells that make dogs, instead of looking upon them as conditions, like a dirty and
up specific organs that are being disturbed. There is the a clean condition, and just as much under our own control; or
question of why the great numbers in some cases. One rather, as the reactions of kindly Nature against the conditions in
possibility is simply overreaction; for example, fever can which we have placed ourselves?
be extreme.
I was brought up ... distinctly to believe that smallpox, for
e) And finally, release of virions from the host cell either by instance, was a thing of which there was once a first specimen in
budding or lysis. the world, which went on propagating itself in a perpetual chain
of descent, just as much as that there was a first dog, (or a first
A. Complexes leave the cell for remote function or to be pair of dogs), and that smallpox would not begin itself any more
neutralized; than a new dog would begin without their having been a parent
B. Repairs have failed, and complexes are released prior to dog.
or during the breakdown of the cell by acid toxins or the Since then I have seen with my eyes and smelt with my nose
immune system. smallpox growing up in first specimens, either in close rooms
or in overcrowded wards, where it could not by any possibility
Further Considerations
have been “caught,” but must have begun. Nay, more, I have seen
Virologists refer to certain microforms as passenger viruses, diseases begin, grow up, and pass into one another. ... I have seen;
which are present in asymptomatic situations, riding on their for instance, with a little overcrowding, continued fever grow
host’s genetic molecule like a passenger. To the conventional mind up; and with a little more, typhoid fever; and with a little more,
searching for new diseases or for a viral cause of unexplained ones, typhus, and all in the same ward or hut.
they are most interesting, because the status of virologists in the
Would it not be far better, truer, and more practical, if we
scientific community depends upon the pathogenic potential of
looked upon disease in this light? For diseases, as all experience
the viruses they study. Due to their location, passenger viruses are
shows are adjectives, not noun-substantives.
thought to have much disease potential, thus their true function
goes unnoticed. These colloidal passengers are the silent majority That is, symptoms (called diseases) are describers of a
of animal and human intranuclear proteins essential for genetic situation.”
repair.

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I find legitimate Bechamp’s conclusion that what are called slow viruses. Also, the point at which a “natural invasion” takes
germs of the air are fundamentally microzymas of beings which place, as opposed to a highly artificial injective one, and thus, how
are being consumed by the recycling process, i.e., some kind of true incubation periods are determined, is another interesting
vegetative digestion-putrefaction or fermentation. In short, question.
there are no pre-existing disease-germ species. The principles of
microbian medicine constitute a fundamental biological error. As Hantavirus
Bechamp said, “The microbian doctrine is the greatest scientific A recent example of unwarranted panic in American
silliness of this age.” This is not to say that there is no transmission, biomedicine was the eminent hantavirus of 1994. Presumably it
only that invasion is not necessary for symptogenesis, nor is it the had jumped species, from mouse to man (the American Navaho
primary mechanism for illness. It is to say that for transmission Indians). However, after supposedly killing a number of people,
to take place, susceptibility in the form of a compromised terrain this phantom virus apparently made peace with the Indians and
must pre-exist in the receiver, who is then likely to be ill anyway. retired to its mouse reservoir. The virus failed to materialize [8].
With the exception of the immune component in the mucosal A front-page article in the San Francisco Chronicle reported that
barrier, primary host “resistance” is a function of terrain condition CDC “epidemiologists across the nation are carefully monitoring
rather than immunity per se. the deer mouse population and the level of virus within it.” But
all that was left to discover of the former “Navaho flu” by the CDC
Phantom Viruses Hepatitis
epidemiologists (shown in their space suits) were healthy mice
Hepatitis can be a painful symptom that has yielded profitable in the mountains [9]. The Navaho flu is nothing new to the native
virus-hunting opportunities in recent years. Although there are Americans and is most likely tied to sanitation, nutrition and
several categories of this disorder, three main varieties of what lifestyle.
is called “acute viral hepatitis” exist: Type A (formerly “infectious
hepatitis”), Type B (formerly “serum hepatitis”), and hepatitis Ebola
C (formerly “non-A, non-B”). The corresponding viruses are In May 1995 the CDC announced the new, threatening Ebola
HAV, HBV, and the non-A, non-B “group,” now called C. Type A virus. The deadly killer virus was expected to leave its hidden
is said to be caused by an RNA virus, spread primarily by fecal reservoir in the rain forests of Africa to claim Europe and the
contamination of water and food, with blood and secretions also United States. An article in Time magazine was peppered with
possibly being infectious (but it is due to the toxins associated with men in space suits and colored electron micrographs of the virus
unsanitary conditions). Hepatitis B, discovered in the ‘60s, is said (even though electron microscopes cannot take color pictures).
to be caused by a DNA virus which replicates in the hepatocyte A CDC virologist suggested the virus could leave the rain forest
nucleus and receives its surface coat in the cytoplasm. It is said if “we get a virus that is both deadly to man and transmitted in
to be transmitted by transfused blood or blood products, or via the air.” We are thus asked to fear the image of viruses somehow
common use of needles by intravenous drug users (but it is due being launched into the air, perhaps by ejection from a host, and
primarily to over-acidification from the drugs, especially heroin. then floating on killer breezes to other lands. A more imaginable
The exchange of body fluids into the blood, whether by unsterilized scenario was suggested by a European epidemiologist who heads
needles, abusive sexual activity, etc., can also play a role over time the United Nations AIDS program. Echoing the CDC’s alarm, he
because of repeated immune stress caused by foreign proteins. stated, “It’s theoretically feasible that an infected person from
Third World babies with poor nutrition and unsanitary conditions Kuwait could go to Kinshasa, get on a plane to New York, fall ill,
around the time of birth are also susceptible. and present transmission risk there.” But within a month the
The third type of hepatitis, discovered in the ‘70s, is found virus had disappeared in Africa, and not a single Ebola case was
among drug users and alcoholics, and accounts for 80 to 90% of reported in the United States or Europe [10].
hepatitis caused by blood transfusion. It is thus akin to B type and The World Health Organization announced originally on
was at first thought by scientists to be hepatitis B until thorough December 19, 1995 that the Ebola virus epidemic that killed
testing of subjects revealed no virus B-nor A, for that matter. It 245 people in West Africa was over. (This announcement came
was thus called “non-A, non-B” hepatitis and thought to be at least again in 2014) All tests on any remaining suspected cases were
two viruses and perhaps more. negative. A somewhat unsettling revelation was that every Ebola
In 1987 scientists believed they found a single virus causing the outbreak in Africa “is associated to have spread through public
third type, what is known today as the hepatitis C virus. However, hospitals” [11]. As it turned out, it was associated with re-used
what they identified was an antibody they associated with a virus. hypodermic needles in these hospitals. Just like hantavirus, Ebola
Now, just as with HIV, they could test patients for antibodies vanished, never to be heard from again. Most interesting is that
against an elusive or invisible virus. With this new observation, this epidemic, as epidemics will, stopped without vaccines or
however, new paradoxes confronted the viral hypothesis. Huge other drugs. But consider the impact such stories have made upon
numbers of people testing positive for the phantom C virus never our minds and on the way we view and understand germs. What’s
developed any symptoms. Hepatitis is truly the result of over- next in virodrama, the Andromeda Strain?
acidification or toxification of the largest filter in the human body There is one insidious possibility that must be mentioned in
by such substances as lactic acid, acetic aldehyde and ethanol-not passing. Some mysterious outbreaks of the past have been shown
the disease of a pathological virus. It is interesting to note also years later to have been man-made. In some cases, government
that all these hepatitis viruses have incubation periods of 2 to 25 agency has used the public to test releases of organisms and weak
weeks, violating Farr’s Law (see below), yet are not classified as

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Higher Form of Killing by Robert Harris and Jeremy Paxman. In
this scenario, the cause of such an incident would be constructed 6. Kalokerinos and Dettman, op. cit., p. 12.
officially, or left as a mystery, in order to draw attention away from 7. Ibid.
the truth.
8. Denetclaw TH, Denetclaw WFJ (1994) Is “Southwest US mystery
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