Parasite Rex

[Kritters]

Okay,

I had to start this thread because I don't remember which posts I want to address with excerpts from this book.

These are some of what I highlighted. I'll post more later if I think significant or relative.

PARASITE REX

Aristotle, for instance, recognized creatures that lived on the tongues of pigs, encased in cysts as tough as hailstones. P.2

The cysts that Aristotle had seen in the tongues of pigs had little wormlike creatures coiled up inside, but these were helpless animals that didn’t even have sex organs. Parasites, most scientists assumed, must have been spontaneously generated in bodies, just as maggots appeared spontaneously on a corpse, fungus on old hay, instects from within trees. P 3

Trypanosomes are only one of many parasites inside the people of southern Sudan. If you could travel Fantastic Voyage-style through their skin, you would probably come across marble sized nodules where you’d float past coiled worms as long as snakes and as thin as threads. These animals, male and female, SPEND THEIR TEN-YEAR-LONG-LIVES IN THESE NODULES, MAKING THOUSANDS OF BABIES. The babies leave them and travel WITHIN THE SKIN, in the hope that they’ll get taken up in the bite of a black fly. …..as the babies swim through a victim’s skin they can trigger a violent attack from the immune system. RATHER THAN KILL THE PARASITE, THE IMMUNE SYSTEM PUTS A RASH OF LEOPARD SPOTS ON THE SKIN OF ITS HOST. THE RASH CAN GET SO ITCHY THAT PEOPLE MAY SCRATCH THEMSELVES TO DEATH.p.xv

Steenstrup would eventually be proved right. Many parasites travel from one host to another during their life cycles, and in many cases they alternate between different forms from one generation to the next. P.7

MAYBE THE BLADDER WORM AND THE TAPE WORM WERE ONE AND THE SAME. Maybe they were actually the product of tapeworm eggs that had made their way into the wrong host.

In the 1840s a devout German doctor heard about these ideas and was outraged. KUchenmeister had a more pious explanation: the bladder worms were an early stage in the natural life cycle of the tapeworm.

By 1900, bacteria were rarely called parasites anymore, even though, like tapeworms, they lived in and at the expense of another organism. IT WAS LESS IMPORTANT TO DOCTORS THAT BACTERIA WERE ORGANISMS THAN THEY HAD THE POWER TO CAUSE DISEASES AND THAT THEY COULD NOW BE ERASED WITH VACCINES, DRUGS, AND GOOD HYGIENE. MEDICAL SCHOOLS FOCUSED THEIR STUDENTS ON INFECTIOUS DESEASES, AND GENERALLY ON THOSE CAUSED BY BACTERIA (OR LATER BY MUCH SMALL VIRUSES). Part of their bias had to do with how scientists recognize causes of diseases. They generally follow a set of rules proposed by the German scientist Robert Koch. To begin with A PATHOGEN HAD TO BE SHOWN TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH A PARTICULAR DISEASE.
Yet, despite their power to cause disease, most protozoa couldn’t live up to Koch’s rigorous demands. They were creatures after Stenstrup’s heart, PASSING THROUGH ALTERNATING GENERATIONS.

AS BACTERIA AND VIRUSES OCCUPIED THE CENTER OF MEDICINE, PARASITES (IN OTHER WORDS, EVERYTHING ELSE) WERE SPUN OUT TO THE PERIPHERY. P.13

I think these points are significant. Carls, here is just a bit on cysts as well.

xo
Kritts

[carla]

Great thread kritts .I might post something in here if you dont mind .Thats if my Daughter ever gives me the book back.
I wonder if the author has heard of Morgellons yet?

[tcmgpt13]

Hi, Kritts, interesting post about the relationship of what we consider bacteria, viruses to parasites. Viewing them as just a stage of parasitic cycles is an interesting concept and one to which I hope some modern researcher pays attention. Didn't Rife say something about viruses being a different stage of bacteria (or was it the other way round?). About the changing forms of parasites from one generation to the next, I think we all here can attest to that from personal experience. This parasite we have underlying it all is so tricky that so far I do not think anyone has found it, much less has figured out any sort of life cycle for it.

[Kritters]

I drove 2.5 hours today to a funeral(5 hrs total, but listened to music on way back) and got to listen to the book DNA...The Secret of Life since it's on tape and I was screaming out loud in the car (windows were up) at all the info I was hearing. I have a portable tape player I'll have to use to copy down some info to post.

BTW, it's written by James Watson, winner of nobel prize for unraveling and understanding DNA & double helix. You might remember the stir this bigot caused with his comments. Google it. I'm glad I got the book from the library and didn't contribute to his cash flow. Even before I knew this (just googled him to tell about him and was unpleasantly surprised) as I listened to the book, I wasn't liking him much. But aside from that, there is information. And I don't think he's perfectly informed on everything anyway. Geez, where's my Nobel?

One thing I'll mention is that they are focusing on so much experimentation it's mind boggling. This bit caught my attention: they've been experimenting BIG TIME on what spiders use for web spinning since it is by weight 5 times stronger than steel. They anticipate using it for indestructable army clothing and Spiderman feats of action. He says that spiders are territorial, so mass production is out of the question. Therefore, they have isolated the atoms responsible for creating the material and spliced them into bacteria. Bacteria can be farmed for this material, so there you have it.

Hmmmm.

That substance reminds me of something........hmmm......what could it be??? WAIT! I KNOW!

fibers

More later.

Kritts

[Kritters]

Originally Posted by carla

Great thread kritts .I might post something in here if you dont mind .Thats if my Daughter ever gives me the book back.
I wonder if the author has heard of Morgellons yet?

post away! I emailed him months ago regarding Morgellons but never heard from him. He's probably all tied up in some parasite coccoon.

xoK