stemmed from the use of antibiotics and not from respiratory ailments, the researchers excluded these
cases from the study.
Interestingly, the same study showed that the presence of a dog in the house during the first year of life
led to a reduced risk of contracting asthma, even if antibiotics were used. “Dogs bring germs into the
home, and it is thought that this exposure is required for the infant's immune system to develop normally.
Other research has shown that the presence of a dog in early life protects against the development of
asthma,” said lead researcher Anita Kozyrskyj.
Losing The Battle With Disease?
The world is not only experiencing a vast number of new man-made epidemics, but old diseases, too,
are making a comeback. In 1978, the United Nations adopted a “Health for All, 2000” resolution, setting
goals for eradicating infectious disease by the century’s end. But the germs didn’t co-operate. Apart from
at least 29 previously unknown diseases, 20 well-known ones have re-emerged, including malaria,
tuberculosis, pneumonia, cholera, yellow fever and dysentery. The germs causing the diseases are rapidly
mutating to forms beyond the reach of today’s antibiotics.
Drugs that once cured malaria are being foiled by the mosquito-borne parasite. Its “changing coat” of
mutations baffles scientists. Yesterday’s “super drugs” have become today’s weapons of self-destruction.
A century of using quinine-based drugs as a prophylactic in people who did not even have malaria has
fostered the evolution of new strains of quinine-resistant malaria that defy conventional treatment. The
only substance that has shown to cure this type of malaria (within 4 to 8 hours) as well as other similar
infections is chlorine dioxide (see Miracle Mineral Supplement (MMS) in chapter 7).
Hemorrhagic dengue, another mosquito fever, has recently struck in India, Africa, and parts of Latin
America after an absence of at least half a century. An Asian strain of cholera reached Latin America in
1991 and at least 1.3 million people have been stricken. But not only the developing world is afflicted.
The U.S. death rate from infectious diseases rose 58 percent between 1980 and 1992. In 1995
hemorrhagic dengue reached Texas. We seem to be in a battle we cannot win, using the same old
symptom-oriented approaches. What is most disconcerting is that those who have used the “magic bullet”
approach to disease in the past have contributed greatly to the new wave of infectious diseases that are
sweeping the globe. In a sense, man is now forced to become aware of his mistakes and to employ natural
methods of healing instead of using drugs that are designed to kill biological organisms. Tuberculosis
(TB) is a typical example of this learning process.
Tuberculosis—Nature Fighting Back
Once the world’s premier killer disease, tuberculosis (TB) has now developed resistance to multiple
drugs and claims millions of lives each year. The World Health Organization has declared TB a global
emergency. In 1990 the disease earned itself the title of the world’s number one killer pathogen,
responsible for the deaths of nearly three million people worldwide. Fifty years of using antibiotics in the
treatment of diseases has made the TB bug so resistant to treatment that, wherever it finds fertile ground,
it causes death, especially in developing countries where hygiene is often very poor.
The Western Hemisphere, however, is no longer safe from TB either. The first modern epidemic broke
out in New York in 1990 followed by others in several parts of America and Britain. In 2007 an incident
involving a TB-infected American man traveling in an airplane sent panic waves through the nation.
These superbugs can travel around the world in almost no time. AIDS patients, people regularly treated
with antibiotics or those living in poor and unhygienic environments are particularly endangered. Out of