For perspective, a human hair is 2, times that width. The particle is made from a tiny crystal of gold. A forest of even tinier threads cover its surface. Those threads are made from carbon-based compounds. And they now report success. The nanoparticles destroyed common germs like the herpes virus and human papilloma virus.
The first triggers a range of symptoms, including cold sores in the mouth. The second is responsible for the most common type of sexually transmitted infection — one that can cause genital warts and even cancer. It infects the lungs, causing cold-like symptoms — except in babies and the elderly.
It can leave them with life-threatening pneumonia. Finally, the new nanoparticles killed dengue DEN-gay virus. It infects some million people each year. There has been no treatment for this tropical illness, which is spread by mosquitoes. Symptoms include severe eye, muscle and joint pain; vomiting; bleeding gums; difficulty breathing and black tarry stools. There it starts to hijack those cells to make many copies of itself. Afterward, the infected cell bursts.
This releases a legion of new viruses that can spread to other cells in this person or others. They defeat the virus — but only temporarily. If the patient stops taking the drug, the virus can return.
Generally, deadlock happens less often in newer applications because new hierarchies for requests are able to skirt around the problem in many cases.
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It has now mutated into more contagious forms that threaten to plunge the globe into another spin cycle of lockdown. Richer countries just have to ensure more widespread availability of vaccines. And individuals have to get vaccinated. The far right has jumped on the anti-vaccination bandwagon, seized control of the wheel, and is driving the vehicle, al-Qaeda-style, straight into oncoming traffic. COVID is not an asteroid on a collision course with the planet. It just requires a bit of cooperation.
Actually, there are three problems. The first has to do with supply, since the richest nations have cornered the market on the vaccines and have been criminally slow to get them to poorer countries. On the entire continent of Africa, for instance, less than 2 percent of the population has been fully vaccinated. Hesitation is understandable.
But not when placed against the obvious lethality of COVID and the clear benefits of herd immunity. The third problem is political. Both in the United States and globally, the far right has long been infected by various harmful delusions—the superiority of white people, the fiction of climate change, the evils of government. Now, with its anti-vaccine opportunism, the far right is circulating a new delta variant of global stupidity: virally through social media, in a shower of spit and invective on the street, and through top-down lunacy from politicians and political parties.
COVID and all of its variants will eventually burn themselves out, though at who knows what cost. The latest versions of global stupidity promoted by the far right, however, are proving far more resistant to science, reason, and just plain common sense.
The Brothers of Italy is a neo-fascist formation that is now polling the highest of any political party today in Italy. With 21 percent support, this pro-Mussolini throwback is just ahead of the far-right Lega party. How did the Brothers of Italy grow in several months from a few percent to the leading party in the polls? Led by Giorgia Meloni, a woman who predictably decries Islam and immigrants, the Brothers of Italy started out as a booster of vaccines, which seemed like a pretty safe position in a country that has suffered so much at the hands of COVID Effectively, Meloni wants to grant all citizens the same right that James Bond famously possessed: the license to kill.
In France, the government of Emmanuel Macron has instituted a similar health pass as well as mandating that all medical professionals get vaccinated.
The response has been ferocious, with several demonstrations of over , people mobilizing around the country. It might seem at first glance that the French protestors are just ordinary folks who are sick and tired of government intrusions in their lives, similar to the Yellow Vest protestors from Unfortunately, some leading members of the left-wing France Unbowed party have also endorsed the rallies.
As in the United States, French anti-vaxxers are resorting to anti-system conspiracy theories up to and including QAnon. Despite the size of these rallies, whipped up by the far right, a majority of French support the health pass and nearly 70 percent of the population has gotten at least one shot compared to only 58 percent in the United States.
But the far right sees the anti-vaccine movement as an opportunity to worm its way into the mainstream in France and elsewhere, such as the Querdenken movement in Germany, the anti-Semitic far right in Poland, and evangelical Christian organizations in the Philippines.
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