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Exploding Malaria With Human-Sized Microwaves

Posted August 12, 2011 9:58 AM

From Fast Company:

Malaria drugs are expensive, and the disease is becoming resistant. But nothing can resist microwaves. A new advance might simply explode the parasite inside people's bodies with a low dose of focused rays.

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08/12/2011 8:53 PM

Wow! This is a truly ingenious treatment approach. It literally sounds too good to be true. Attacking the malaria parasite while it is in the human body with low dose microwaves. I wonder if an increased level of malaria resistance or susceptibility will be accompanied with this treatment and recovery method.

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08/12/2011 11:14 PM

Well you know what almost happened to Hansel and Gretel and they were lucky. This is a conspiracy of some fine young cannibals. Once you enter the oven...they got ya! You had better run.

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08/12/2011 11:19 PM

Let me help you. Your information is out of date. The WHO World Health Organisation decided, That after all, a limited use of DDT (previously vilified) is correct. That use means the inside of your roof and ceiling and such. That cuts down on carrying moskitoes 10 times or better. DDT treated moskito netting around your bed does the same, and better. Contact your local WHO, and be persistent. And forget about exploding anything with microwaves. Youtube has "interesting" examples of that.

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08/15/2011 12:41 AM

Don't you mean "DEETS", DDT was outlawed several years ago, because it was such a good killer, it killed everything it came in contact with. And if it didn't kill the parent's with the first application, it sure f**ked up the off-spring. DEETS is a lot safer.

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08/15/2011 11:47 PM

Here's a little more information on DDT from Wikipedia, which talks about the effects of Human exposure to DDT and the potential mechanisms of action on humans are genotoxicity and endocrine disruption. It also go on and says this about DDT and IRS, "People living in areas where DDT is used for IRS have high levels of the chemical and its breakdown products in their bodies. Compared to contemporaries living where DDT is not used, South Africans living in sprayed homes have levels that are several orders of magnitude greater.[35] Breast milk in regions where DDT is used against malaria greatly exceeds the allowable standards for breast-feeding infants.[101][102][103] These levels are associated with neurological abnormalities in babies.[91][101][102]".

So, if given a choice between a Microwave oven or DDT, I will take a Microwave, and that's only if I had a choice.

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08/19/2011 6:08 AM

News item on this morning's news said that the mozzies are becoming resistant to the chemicals in impregnated nets. A big worry as these are a major weapon in the anti-malaria battle.

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08/13/2011 1:18 AM

That is good news. The idea was proven in 1934 by Royal Raymond Rife (google that for some very interesting articles). He discovered that the capsin of almost any cell could be burst by exciting it with the proper RF frequency. He even did a government sponsored test on 14 women with breast cancer, and cured all of them.

Some segments of our complex society were not too happy with that success. The results were disasterous for Rife.

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08/13/2011 4:53 PM

If this is true, then why don't hospitals do this today, because many hundreds of women die each year from breast cancer?

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08/13/2011 6:51 PM

The reasons were never given to R. Rife. Instead his lab was set on fire, his records stolen, and he was arrested about 13 times in the next year on trumped up charges that never stuck. It seems that some organizations did not want to have a cure for a $ 30, 000 treatment of thousands of victims.

Please google Royal Raymond Rife to learn more.

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08/13/2011 8:42 PM

Rife is curious. His early experiments in the 1930's were primitive,, as normal for that time. Doing modern, updated experiments would be becoming one way or other.

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08/13/2011 8:44 PM

I'm not disinclined to be sympathetic to this story at face value.

But if anything, the revival of interest and development and marketing of "Rife" device which manifestly do nothing, has has only tarnished his reputation more.

The basic concept, of using specific resonance or characteristics to target pathogens or diseased cells, is reasonable and not unthinkable. In the case of the present article, there is some supporting evidence that the method works as it is claimed. According to the wiki though, Rife's results could not be replicated.

With the revival of interest and marketing of Rife devices, there appears to be enough capital, and volunteers, for legitimate studies to support or refute the designs. This is normal procedure in this day and age for any health product that seeks legitimacy. Instead the makers have not bothered to test or provide verification of the value of the treatment, and have landed in charges of fraud...... the conspiracy theory doesn't hold water...

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08/13/2011 9:02 PM

That is why a modern, rigorous, unbiased test is warranted. I have no dog in this race, but want to see settled with 1 or 10 principled studies. Remember, not everything is readily provable. I was reading about acupuncture for my whole adult life. This summer the first, good partial proof came in. That is the timetable of science.

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08/14/2011 3:41 AM

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08/14/2011 12:49 PM

DARPA has funded ASU to develop a method to destroy viruses using tuned lasers. It is a modern version of what RIFE was doing, but using lasers instead of RF fields. The big advantage is that a laser can penetrate fluids much better than RF fields. Here is one link describing the ASU research:

http://www.virologyj.com/content/4/1/50

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08/14/2011 1:48 PM

Very interesting. Although I didn't read every word of the paper, it seems to be strong on the capacity to cause disruption at the viral capsid level, but weak on the assumption that this can be done selectively without harm to cells or to benign microbial communities for that matter, in vivo.

I wonder, where is the background material in which the resonance of a viral capsid, vs the resonance of a bacterium or of a human cell, (or a cancerous vs a normal cell for that matter) has been established. I'm not questioning whether they are different, simply interested in seeing how different they are, and what kind of precision instrument is required to differentiate them.

Secondly, the use of visible light raises the question, is this really usable in vivo. There are penetration issues with optical diagnostic technologies, and I assume that similar problems would arise with the use of the laser to crunch viruses, in any medium other than transparent water.

This research doesn't convince me that there is a possible or probable benefit obtained by using the Rife devices. On the contrary, it indicates that the relevant research is at a very preliminary stage, and as yet there is no indication that a therapeutic device is at all feasible. If precisely tuned femptosecond lasers are indeed the way to turn this concept to a viable technology, it also raises the question, what relevance does this have to the existing "Rife" devices, in which I strongly doubt a laser is to be found, nor precision tuning at the scale I imagine necessary to distinguish a virus or a cancer cell from the happy good bits that we'd like to keep....

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08/15/2011 11:13 AM

I don't want to belabor the Rife experiments, but he did catalog dozens of resonant frequencies of the capsid for various viruses and pathogens. He proved that this method could destroy selective cells (or sub-cells in the case of viruses).

All of this research was based on his "dark-field" microscope, which was the first scope to allow live viruses to be monitored as they invaded normal cells.

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08/15/2011 8:43 PM

Resonance is without a doubt an important phenomenon to understand. Even our usage of the airwaves is governed in part with this in mind, setting limits on the use of resonant frequencies that produce body-antenna effects.

What is really disturbing is the story of a scientist being persecuted and his records destroyed. I hope this project does consolidate the work that he began, but also that we stop and think, as a society, about the enormity and gross stupidity of his persecution, which should never be repeated again.

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08/16/2011 2:10 PM

Well, one answer is not pleasant to entertain... there are plenty of horror stories to support the idea.

Rife was way ahead of everyone around him in the idea of using resonance to destroy organisms, etc. The story/history of him and his "research" AND microscope developments, make for fascinating but depressing reading. We could be SO much further along with this sort of technology had it not been for the AMA. It actually hurts to see people's reaction to this article as if it's "new." "Modern" medicine is still in the Dark Ages in many ways.

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08/14/2011 4:10 PM

DARPA funds very longshot, potentionally high payoff programs others are unwilling to. The Virology piece states that it is a starting point into fundamental research with femtosecond lasers. It did not attempt to cover any range, beyond showing, that a harmless bacteriophage is destroyed over a power threshold. Good so far. It will be a couple of years before anything useable is possible.

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08/15/2011 12:30 AM

We can't even get pass the Airport scanners, let alone Smart Meters and Cell phones and all that other EMF omitting stuff that's out there!! Then you want me to climb into a Nuke? Yeah, Right!! And would happen to me, if I had my morning eggs and beacon fried in my old cast Iron skillet, with my Iron enriched toasted bread and topped off with my daily Iron+ vitamin's? Who's cell would pop first, mine or the bug's? I've seen first hand what happens to a person who gets zapped with brief WX radar microwaves, less than 10 second exposure and out of work for more than 3 weeks and never really was this same afterwards.

Don't get me wrong, this would be great, if it can function as advertised. DJ

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08/16/2011 5:06 PM

Royal Raymond Rife sounds Like a Tesla of medical treatment. I thought maybe a quack until I looked at his Universal #3 microscope. It still is impressive by todays standards.
Thanks for the new information
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Rife has his own .org another day to dig into this.

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