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Shinobi Gaiden
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Sep 27, 2005 Post Count: 92 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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we should focus on one of the pandemic diseases next time. People usually dismiss the idea because those diseases (some are incurable) are merely inconvienient to live with. I am more conceren with the idea that i am very likely to catch some of these diseases just by proximate contact.
example: Herepes, cant be cured, 1 in 5 adults infected in the United states (20%). While treatable, this disease is transmittable through skin to skin contact. This is also a disease which is able to produce open sores on the arms or eyes as well as the genital areas. Frankly this frightens me. especially so if everyone has it because it means that despite everyones best efforts we still cant cure it. but herpes is not the only one. There are many skin diseases. I think we should start with the most common disease we have (whatever has the highest % of infection) and we should start finding cures for that. |
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Former Member
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Oral Herpes? Genital Herpes? Hmmm..natural cures and home remedies already exist which work far better then any store bought drugs.
My advice would be to mix up a paste of baking soda and water then apply to the newly infected area and let it dry for 20min then remove and reapply a few more times that day. The new herpes lesion or sore should quickly die and dry up before the virus has a chance to go dormant in the nerve cells. Also, this would seem to alert the immune system that something is wrong and needs attention. Some people have been known to use salt directly applied as a cure also which dries up the sores but with more pain involved. This may increase sodium in blood as it gets absorbed. I personally prefer baking soda in the one encounter I had which has not come back. These are just my experiences and opinions on it tho. A regular doctor cannot confirm or deny this will work. They are paid to support big pharm companies only. The last doctor only said, "you have a good friend". She is the one who told me of this. |
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Shinobi Gaiden
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well i dont have either as far as i know, but i was referencing genital herpes. The problem with GH is that it is some sort of spinal disease. You can fight an outbreak all you like, and maybe even decrease the amount of recurrances but you cannot cure (remove completely , or reduce the outbreak count to zero) my concern is that there are widespread diseases which "cant" be cured.
I want to start tackling one of those (pandemic) types of diseases while we are crunching the "big" ones BECAUSE i see it as just as important to understand and cure. FOR EXAMPLE: Suppose aids (sloppy copier) infects someone with herpes and mutates to make aids semi-transmissable through fluids (open sores) because pourous skin can absorb and herpes spreads easily in that manner. If it was "false herpes" that was spread (really aids) then you would have a bigger problem. this thread is not meant to sound like a scare tactic or a wild fantasy. i do not think that scenario is likely. However ; what i am afraid of is a disease which cannot be cured that infects a bulk of the general populus. I see a Pandemic disease as MORE important than a rampant one. I suggest we add a disease like that next. (does not have to be herpes) btw thank you for trying to help. |
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Former Member
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first you need to find a herpes researcher who can put together a project for this crunching. i don't think the people here do that, a plan has to be presented to them.
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Former Member
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Maybe, something like HPV would be more worth the effort? Not only can it cause warts but more importantly CANCER. 90 some percent of cervical cancer is now linked to this virus. Cervical cancer can spread if not caught in time and result in thousands of deaths each year here in the United States.
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Former Member
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Virus can combine in nature by infecting the same cell. This produces the best hybrid traits of both virus. Scientists call these hybrid viruses "recombinants". It is extremely rare however that two virus would infect the same living cell although known to occur.
Herpes can atleast aid in the transmission of HIV through open sores. Syphillis is known to become infected with the AIDS virus and become a carrier a large percentage of the time. Get syphillis from a person with HIV and you can bet your going to have AIDS. Very nasty when these things team up together to allow more successful transmissions. |
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Bon Kuhlman
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What about Mad Cow? I'm sure that we could learn a lot about this disease by simulating the folding process of the prions.
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we45dfa35gh3476
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Apr 19, 2006 Post Count: 57 Status: Offline |
What about Mad Cow? I'm sure that we could learn a lot about this disease by simulating the folding process of the prions. Both Mad Cow (BSE), and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) are tackled on Folding@Home, along with many other protein-misfolding diseases (Alzheimer's, Huntington's, Parkinson's, etc.) Folding@Home attempts to find out why proteins misfold. WCG's Human Proteome Folding 2, on the other hand, attemps to find the structure of pieces of the human genome; pieces where we do not know the experimental structure (x-ray crystallography of proteins is a long and expensive process) and thus we do not know the function of many proteins. If we can make a reasonable guess at the structure, we can make a prediction about its function. [Edit 2 times, last edit by we45dfa35gh3476 at Aug 29, 2006 8:07:23 PM] |
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Bon Kuhlman
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Thanks for the info! I didn't realize that folding@home covered such a gamut of proteins, I will have to check out their website(I'm mostly involved in the WCG at the moment). I guess between the two projects we should be able to fill in most of the "missing" pieces to the puzzle of disease.
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