The Infection Game Supplement: new infections, retroviruses and pandemics

By Sarah Myhill and Craig Robinson

Adding to the wealth of information in The Infection Game, this supplement provides three further chapters: New infections and where they come from; Retroviruses; and Pandemics with particular reference to Covid-19

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hammersmith Health Books
• Release date: Sep 1, 2020
• ISBN: 9781781611876

Sarah Myhill

Dr Sarah Myhill qualified in medicine (with Honours) from Middlesex Hospital Medical School in 1981 and has since focused tirelessly on identifying and treating the underlying causes of health problems, especially the ‘diseases of civilisation’ with which we are beset in the West. She has worked in NHS and private practice and for 17 years was the Hon Secretary of the British Society for Ecological Medicine, which focuses on the causes of disease and treating through diet, supplements and avoiding toxic stress. She helps to run and lectures at the Society’s training courses and also lectures regularly on organophosphate poisoning, the problems of silicone, and chronic fatigue syndrome. Visit her website at www.drmyhill.co.uk

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The Infection Game

Life is an arms race

SUPPLEMENT – June 2020

Dr Sarah Myhill MB BS

&

Craig Robinson MA (Oxon)

Contents

Title Page

Chapter 39  New infections – where do they come from?

Chapter 40  Retroviruses (RVs) – immunosuppressants that weaken our immune defences

Chapter 41  Pandemics – the example of Covid-19 with application to all pandemics

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Chapter 39

New infections

– where do they come from?

Earlier chapters in the Infection Game detail how most chronic pathology has an infectious driver. Some of this can be explained by declining immunity, but it is becoming increasingly clear that we are seeing new diseases caused by new microbes and infectious particles (prions). Why? Man is playing God with Nature. There are three major sources of these chronic infections: Western medicine, agriculture and biological warfare. Mary Shelley’s classic novel, Frankenstein (or The Modern Prometheus) warns of the dangers of playing God:

Man, I cried, how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, née Godwin, English novelist (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851)

Infections from Western medical practice (iatrogenic – physician-induced)

All humans, indeed all mammals, are carrying an infectious burden of viruses, bacteria, fungi and prions. This is an inevitable part of the arms race. Over millions of years each species has learned to deal with their own personal infectious load in order to survive this arms race. Over these years, humans and animals have regularly consumed each other and the gut has evolved magnificent defences against such infections which include vomiting and diarrhoea, killing with stomach acid and pancreatic enzymes. Icelanders have eaten scrapie-infected sheep brains for years and not developed Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). Most importantly for us, the human brain has given us good hygiene with clean water, clean food and good first aid principles, and this has substantially reduced infectious diseases.

Problems arise when the infected material from an infected human or an infected animal is injected into another human. This by-passes all our natural defences of surface immunity and skin and gives that infectious particle a head start. We already know that this has happened and known examples of such are as listed in Table 39.1.

Table 39.1: Known cases of iatrogenic* infection