I’m a microbiologist and immunologist from New Zealand with an interest in the diseases of farmed animals. I’m currently doing my PhD and discovering the many twists and turns that such an endeavor entails. This blog explores the relationships between microbes, human health and the health of the animals that we grow for food or their products (IE: Cows are used for beef and milk).
This has nothing to do with your speciality, but perhaps you have heard of something on the animal model side and i don’t really know if you can answer. I was reading an article about people giving probiotics over about a 3 month priod and the seeing if the good bacteria was established in their gut by stool sample. it quickly was no longer seen after the people stopped taking the probiotic. This to me seems logical as the gut is supposed to contain a biofilm that makes wipping out the bug very tough. So my question is this. If one were to do a stool test. note the positives for bugs then biofilm destroying exercise, anti virals, anti bacterials, anti parasites, anti fungals, give probiotics over period of time stop and retest stool what would be there? What I haven’t found published is any type of work done that i have described. My question would hopefully answer that the gut can be repopulated w/ good guys with (some sort of) a protecol successfully. and depending on what kind of disease, IBS, eterocolitis, leaky gut, can lead to improvements in overall immunity and health.
Please consider this is really for a human, but Gut cleaned out mice studies are always easier to do:)
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Hi,
I am trying to do some research in vaccinations and I have come across the following comments on another site: I would be interested in your view of these as you study animal diseases.
Thanks,
Kerrie
Two Different Diseases
Legitimate scientists of Jenner’s day decried the smallpox vaccine from the start. Bechamp, Hadwen, Wallace, and others thought it appalling that the most basic facts concerning the distinction between cowpox and smallpox were simply never discussed. If the original axioms of vaccination were true, how could one disease vector immunize against a completely separate disease? This was the question that was never asked, and is still ignored today.
Watch closely: the two diseases – cowpox and smallpox – are completely distinct conditions. Hadwen explains:
“What is cow-pox? It is a disease which occurs on the teats of cows; it only occurs when they are in milk; only in one part of the body, and naturally only in the female animal; it results in an ugly chancre; and is not infectious. Small-pox, on the other hand, is not limited to the female sex as is cow-pox, nor to one portion of the body; it presents different physical signs, and, furthermore, is tremendously infectious, and the course and symptoms of the two diseases are totally different. Therefore there is no analogy between the two.” [5]
Hadwen wrote this 100 years ago, but his objections are still valid. Doing a taxonomic check today in a standard index of viruses from a National Institutes of Health database [21] readily points out that cowpox is caused by a virus called Orthopox vaccinia and smallpox is caused by a virus called Orthopox variola. These two viruses have different sizes, genetic sequences, and characteristics. To pretend that cows get a version of smallpox called cowpox is bizarre enough – but then to say that people who get the same disease are immune to smallpox is simply fantasy.
This chart may be helpful:
Cowpox —————— Smallpox
Only in female cows —– Only in humans
Not infectious ———— Infectious
Orthopox vaccinia ——- Orthopox variola