Discussion on the treatment of anthrax
By Paul A.L. Hall, 22nd of November, 2001
It is argued that there are three types of anthrax infection and that these are pulmonary, gastrointestinal, and cutaneous. However, I notice that they really only tend to be one type of infection to a multicellular host. It appears that the strategy of the anthrax organism is to establish itself in an area of it's host that is isolated from the immune system. The strategy is successful among a group of other bacteria commonly known as the "flesh eating germs".
This is evident from the appearance of the late stages of the cutaneous anthrax infection, suggesting that a topical rather than parenteral treatment might be the most successful remedy. All these bacteria have natural enemies in the microscopic world all the way from penicillin types of attacks from mould organisms to alcohol attacks from yeast organisms. It has been shown that extracts from these natural enemies' chemical arsenals can be tolerated by the human body without adverse effects.
It indicates that a field of research is in order at this juncture that I would label "biotics" as opposed to the research into the field of antibiotics. The science would discover what I theorize to be the "biotic interface" which establishes what abstract thinking would refer to as a communicative and working relationship with micro organisms biologically safe to the human multiorganism or multimonocellular polyorganism. If it is possible to develop the biotic interface, and I think it is, it may even be therefore further possible to transform a dangerous monocellular organism into a "friendly" one even while in the host it is infecting. But something like that even if do-able, is going to take a lot of science; a lot of research.
For such a designer bacteria as the weapons grade anthrax spore, research could implement a treatment that would allow that the biotic arsenal would be in place in the lung tissue area to greet the germinating growth and, most typically, rupture it's cell wall. It's quite a way from feasibility, but if the science were done, theoretically the patient would have spent a prescribed volume of time respiring a sort of nebulizer, or, in the field, an inhaler that would deliver the biotic arsenal into place in the alveoli sacks and the airways of the entire lung.
In the case of such biotic arsenal items as alcohol, the patient arguably would have to undergo drastic treatment. This might involve bypassing the lungs by attaching the heart to a synthetic oxygenating apparatus until the nebulized lungs were completely expunged of the infection.
I might conclude with a chide at the foolish institutions that wasted so much time developing the so-called weapons grade anthrax. They forgot the precepts of the Geneva Convention that outlawed such weapons in the first place. It was discovered in the first world war that even though gas had lethal results, on average it proportionally returned on the ones who launched it and was therefore useless as a weapon. And that's just what has happened here with Fort Detric's Foley: It has returned right back upon the very people and their own country who developed it. And Russia is next, by the way.
I was an Information Specialist in the Army Materiel Command which was in charge of these operations when this stuff was being developed back in the sixties and I tried to tell them then, but who listens to a little spec five? They've got to stop using these stupid black weapons as a Band-Aid to patch up tactically inept command capability. An atomic bomb they're not. Always trying to bring back Los Alamos and all those "Oppie and company" glory days.
It's as the old shootist said, that if you lean on your six shooter, somebody's bound to come along some day who's faster than you are. And then you'll hear this giant sucking sound as all your nation's brain drains over to his camp.
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