Communicable diseases are not communicable

Kostoff, Ronald N.; Briggs, Michael B.; Kanduc, Darja; Porter, Alan L.; Buchtel, Henry A.

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Communicable diseases are not communicable

dc.contributor.author	Kostoff, Ronald N.
dc.contributor.author	Briggs, Michael B.
dc.contributor.author	Kanduc, Darja
dc.contributor.author	Porter, Alan L.
dc.contributor.author	Buchtel, Henry A.
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Public Policy	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	University of Bari, Italy. Department of Biosciences	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	University of Michigan. Department of Psychiatry	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2020-10-28T16:09:45Z
dc.date.available	2020-10-28T16:09:45Z
dc.date.issued	2020-10
dc.description.abstract	Communicable disease is a misnomer. The disease is not communicable; the microbe mainly associated with the disease is communicable. Whether the recipient of the microbe develops the disease depends on the health of the recipient’s immune system. Our model of COVID-19 development starts with real-life exposures to multiple toxic stressors degrading the immune system. This is followed by the SARS-CoV-2 virus exploiting the degraded immune system to trigger a chain of events ultimately leading to COVID-19. To prevent or treat infectious disease, the health of the immune system must be maintained or improved. One major component of maintaining and improving immune system health is removal of those factors that contribute to immune system degradation. A previous monograph identified many factors that contribute to immune system degradation (Contributing Factors (CFs)). It was hypothesized that many of these CFs to immune system degradation were identical to those that past studies have shown were CFs to chronic diseases. To test this hypothesis, a proof-of-principle demonstration was performed to identify the commonality between CFs to immune system degradation and CFs to Parkinson’s Disease (PD). A very streamlined approach was used, and approximately 500 CFs were found in common between the two diseases. Since COVID-19 (and other infectious diseases) results from immune system degradation in our model, this means COVID-19 and PD are enabled by many of the same toxic exposures and toxic behaviors. Thus, many of the measures required to strategically treat and prevent infectious diseases are similar to those required to strategically treat and prevent chronic diseases. This is a major paradigm shift for orthodox Western medicine, but is required to achieve major advances in global population health.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/63805
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology	en_US
dc.rights	Attribution 3.0 United States	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/	*
dc.subject	Covid-19	en_US
dc.subject	Coronavirus	en_US
dc.subject	Pandemic	en_US
dc.subject	SARS-CoV-2	en_US
dc.subject	Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome	en_US
dc.subject	Parkinson's disease	en_US
dc.subject	Immune system degradation	en_US
dc.subject	TechMining	en_US
dc.subject	Contributing Factors	en_US
dc.title	Communicable diseases are not communicable	en_US
dc.type	Text
dc.type.genre	Pre-print
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local.contributor.author	Porter, Alan L.
local.contributor.corporatename	School of Public Policy
local.contributor.corporatename	Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
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