Scientists strike gold: 'Silver bullet' could finally beat common cold
(Daily Mail) A ‘silver bullet’ against the common cold and other illnesses is being developed by scientists.
Tests show that arming bacteria with minute studs of silver endows them with the ability to combat viruses.
Norovirus, the winter vomiting bug, is unable to cause infections after coming into contact with the silver-impregnated bacteria.
Researchers believe the same technique could be used to ward off other viruses, including those which cause flu and the common cold.
Belgian professor Willy Verstraete discovered a way of ‘studding’ harmless bacteria often found in probiotic yoghurts with nanoparticles of silver, each thinner than a human hair.
Sprayed up the nose or rubbed into the hands, the silver-studded bacteria stop any viruses that cross their path from infecting cells.
As viruses need to hijack a cell’s internal machinery to live and breed, barring them entry leads to their death.
The common cold wreaks havoc among all age groups but the huge number of different viruses behind the symptoms means that a cure has, so far, eluded scientists.
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1321363/Silver-bullet-finally-beat-...
My notes: I am not so sure that developing a bacteria that is resistant to silver is a good idea (it could be a horrible one if the bacteria was able to pass on the immunity to MRSA and other bacteria), but am nevertheless struck with mainstream scientists saying that nano-particles of silver prevent cold and flu viruses. I wonder what all the naysayers will have to say about that?
What did I miss Tony? Silver does pretty good on it's own. Has for me anyway.
What you may have missed is that maim-stream medicine and all their mouthpieces and minions have been denying that silver has any internal benefits whatsever for years, while those of us who know better have been saying that nano silver in colloidal and ionic solutions is deadly to pathogens of just about every kind. After having everyone from the FDA to the FTC to the EPA condemning silver and threatening silver makers - and parading around Papa Smurf Paul Karason in a coast to coast media circus, now you suddenly you have scientists saying that nano-silver might be the silver bullet for colds and flu. Provided of course that it is delivered in a patentable form where they attach it to bacteria. There is no need to attach silver nano particles to bacteria, that is just the gimmick. It is the silver nano-particles that are deadly and that is the case regardless of how they are delivered.
Normally silver would also be deadly to just about any bacteria, so I find it to be more than a little concerning to find that they are somehow able to attach silver to a bacteria. What if that bacteria were able to pass on it's defense against silver to other forms of bacteria - such as MRSA? Wouldn't that be just like maim-stream science - find a way to use a patented form of silver against viruses while jeopardizing its effectiveness against bacteria? That way maim-stream medicine would have a new patented anti-viral medicine as well as an effecive way to protect all the billions in profits from their patented antibiotics.
Tony, JAB, I get it. My question was rhetorical in nature.
I recall the hospitals using a silver solution to spray the air ducts of hospitals to kill the MRSA bugs that up until then they couldn't control.
Pharma is feeling the pressure from natural organic products. Remember when the FDA was going to shoot down Stevia? Well Cargill a Monsanto company found a way to use the Stevia plant to make a new product called Truvia, so the FDA backed off.
Things aren't going to get any better until we find somebody that can shoot down the FDA, and their Pharma connection.
I respectfully disagree and disagree strongly. I am sorry to hear that you have not had positive results such as I have and such as so many others have had, including a great many posters here at CureZone. Based on my experiences with colloidal silver and the experience of a great many others I know, it would be a disservice to not recommend it.
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