In an article just published in the British Journal of Medicine and Medical Research Harvard University researcher Dr Boguslaw Lipinski claims that selenium can treat Ebola virus disease (EVD). His paper says that a specific form of selenium, sodium selenite, found in nutritional supplements can reduce the infectivity and therefore the reproduction of Ebola and HIV viruses. The article entitled, “Can Selenite be an Ultimate Inhibitor of Ebola and Other Viral Infections?” explains that sodium selenite (selenium) can reduce or prevent viruses from entering cells to infect them. He writes, “This inexpensive and readily available food supplement can be an ultimate inhibitor of Ebola and other enveloped viral infections.” However, he suggests selenium should not be used with vitamin C which can inactivate it. He explains, “Selenium deficiencies are associated with enhanced infectivity of Ebola and other viruses.” In fact, “those who are resistant to Ebola infections may have adequate blood ...

 From one point of view Aids can be understood as a disease of nutritional deficiency. However, it is not like other deficiency diseases. Most nutritional deficiencies are caused by not getting enough food or not eating foods that contain specific vitamins and minerals. That is not true with Aids. Aids is a disease of nutritional deficiency caused by a virus. The HIV virus is genetically programed to produce a selenium containing protein that is part of its outer coat – its “envelope”. Every time the cell produces an HIV virus, it uses up an infinitesimal amount of the body’s supply of this essential trace element. As HIV viral load gradually increases, the level of selenium available to the immune system decreases. As the body’s selenium level falls, CD4 count declines along with it. Selenium (Se) is absolutely essential for human health. Its molecules form the critical, active part of the universal antioxidant glutathione peroxidase (GPx). GPx/selenium is found in every cell of t...

The Ebola virus has engulfed three countries in West Africa frightening societies and wrecking economies. This epidemic and those that are certain to come more often in the future threaten the entire world. While Ebola is not contagious – it is not spread through the air – it is highly infectious. Even touching the body of someone who has died from Ebola can infect a person. Between 20% and 50% of all cases have been traced to contact with the bodies of deceased Ebola victims, often at funeral ceremonies. If medicines can be found that reduce the mortality rate in Ebola virus disease (EVD) this will have a knock-on effect reducing postmortem transmissions and significantly slow the spread of the epidemic. It will also encourage people to seek medical attention at Ebola treatment units (ETUs) sooner. That will reduce transmissions too. After Ebola struck, international health organizations eventually descended en mass to fight the virus with the best weapons they knew – mostly rehydr...

 In the early 1980s Aids erupted onto the world stage as a completely unknown disease shrouded in absolute mystery. When Dr. Michael Gottlieb first noticed the syndrome at Harbor-UCLA Hospital in Los Angeles, California, and reported it to the US Center for Disease Control in June 1981, numerous questions begged to be answered. What kind of infectious agent caused this emerging disease? Where did it come from? How widespread was it? Would everyone who was infected die, or only a small percentage? How was it spread? How could this multifaceted, most complex of diseases be treated? And how did whatever caused this mysterious syndrome actually force the decline in CD4 white blood-cell count that results in chronic immune system depression? Over the past three decades, thousands of scientists labored diligently to gradually untangle the enigma of HIV/Aids. They answered all these questions. All except one. Researchers soon determined that Aids is caused by a virus that after some debat...