Study: Bee Venom Kills HIV

<div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bees could hold the key to preventing HIV transmission. Researchers have discovered that bee venom kills the virus while leaving body cells unharmed, which could lead to an anti-HIV vaginal gel and other treatments.</span></div><div class="ndn_embed ndn_embedContainer ndn-widget-embed-2 ndn_embedding ndn-widget-embed-4" data-config-distributor-id="90080" id="ndn-video-single-02" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Scientists at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that melittin, a toxin found in bee venom, physically destroys the HIV virus, a breakthrough that could potentially lead to drugs that are immune to HIV resistance. The study was published Thursday in the journal <em>Antiviral Therapy</em>.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="Bee venom, a traditional medical treatment in some parts of the world, may become crucial to halting HIV/AIDS pandemic." src="http://www.usnews.com/pubdbimages/image/45229/FE_DA_0308_Bee_Sting425x283.jpg" /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Our hope is that in places where HIV is running rampant, people could use this as a preventative measure to stop the initial infection," Joshua Hood, one of the authors of the study, said in a statement.</span></div><!-- BEGIN TAG - DO NOT MODIFY --><br /> <script type="text/javascript"> //<![CDATA[ epom_key = "58a2f5117e08ea757dd860388cddcb60"; epom_channel = ""; epom_code_format = "ads"; epom_ads_host = "//www.adshost2.com"; epom_click = ""; epom_custom_params = {}; epom_width = "300"; epom_height = "250"; epom_sandbox_configuration = "allow-forms, allow-pointer-lock, allow-popups, allow-same-origin, allow-scripts, allow-top-navigation"; document.write("<script type='text\/javascript' src='"+(location.protocol == 'https:' ? 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The toxin rips holes in the virus' outer layer, destroying it, but the particles aren't large enough to damage body cells.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Based on this finding, we propose that melittin-loaded nanoparticles are well-suited for use as topical vaginal HIV virucidal agents," they write.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Theoretically, the particles could also be injected into an HIV-positive person to eliminate the virus in the bloodstream.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[<a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2012/11/27/nude-aids-activists-arrested-in-boehners-office" style="text-decoration: none;"><strong>PHOTOS:</strong> Nude AIDS Activists Arrested in Boehner's Office</a>]</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because the toxin attacks the virus' outer layer, the virus is likely unable to develop a resistance to the substance, which could make it more effective than other HIV drugs.</span></div> <!-- Begin BidVertiser code --> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript1.1" SRC="http://bdv.bidvertiser.com/BidVertiser.dbm?pid=579098%26bid=1449088" type="text/javascript"></SCRIPT> <noscript><a href="http://www.bidvertiser.com/bdv/BidVertiser/bdv_advertiser.dbm">marketing</a></noscript> <!-- End BidVertiser code --> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="" id="read_more" style="line-height: 17px;"></a><span style="line-height: 17px;"></span></span> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Theoretically, melittin nanoparticles are not susceptible to HIV mutational resistance seen with standard HIV therapies," they write. "By disintegrating the [virus'] lipid envelope [it's] less likely to develop resistance to the melittin nanoparticles." </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Source: </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/03/08/study-bee-venom-kills-hiv</span></div><!-- BEGIN TAG - DO NOT MODIFY --> <script type="text/javascript"> //<![CDATA[ epom_key = "585a1f37f0a87ff49f68b4ff36bf96f4"; epom_channel = ""; epom_code_format = "ads"; epom_ads_host = "//www.adshost2.com"; epom_click = ""; epom_custom_params = {}; epom_width = "728"; epom_height = "90"; epom_sandbox_configuration = "allow-forms, allow-pointer-lock, allow-popups, allow-same-origin, allow-scripts, allow-top-navigation"; document.write("<script type='text\/javascript' src='"+(location.protocol == 'https:' ? 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Study: Bee Venom Kills HIV

Bees could hold the key to preventing HIV transmission. Researchers have discovered that bee venom kills the virus while leaving body cells ...

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Bee Venom Destroys Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)

<div style="line-height: 20.99431800842285px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nanoparticles carrying a toxin found in bee venom can destroy human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) while leaving the surrounding cells unharmed. The research was conducted by the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The Nanoparticles carry melittin, which is the principal active component of bee venom. Melittin fuses with the HIV virus and destroys it’s protective envelope while molecular bumpers prevent the nanoparticles from harming the body’s normal cells. Bee venom is known to disrupt cellular walls and destroy tumour cells as well.</span></div><div style="line-height: 20.99431800842285px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"><img alt="bee venom" height="424" src="http://cdn2.collective-evolution.com/assets/uploads/2013/03/bee-venom-300x199.jpg" width="640" /></div><div style="line-height: 20.99431800842285px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bee venom contains a potent toxin called melittin that can poke holes in the protective envelope that surrounds HIV, and other viruses. Large amounts of free melittin can cause a lot of damage. Indeed, in addition to anti-viral therapy, the paper’s senior author, Samuel A. Wickline, MD, the J. Russell Hornsby Professor of Biomedical Sciences, has shown melittin-loaded nanoparticles to be effective in killing tumor cells.</span></div> <!-- Begin BidVertiser code --><br /> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript1.1" SRC="http://bdv.bidvertiser.com/BidVertiser.dbm?pid=579098%26bid=1449088" type="text/javascript"></SCRIPT><br /> <noscript><a href="http://www.bidvertiser.com/bdv/BidVertiser/bdv_advertiser.dbm">marketing</a></noscript><br /> <!-- End BidVertiser code --> <br /> <div style="line-height: 20.99431800842285px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The new study shows that melittin loaded onto these nanoparticles does not harm normal cells. That’s because Hood added protective bumpers to the nanoparticle surface. When the nanoparticles come into contact with normal cells, which are much larger in size, the particles simply bounce off. HIV, on the other hand, is even smaller than the nanoparticle, so HIV fits between the bumpers and makes contact with the surface of the nanoparticle, where the bee toxin awaits. <a href="http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/25061.aspx" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s linear; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s linear;">(1)</a></span></div><div style="line-height: 20.99431800842285px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most anti-HIV drugs inhibit the virus’s ability to replicate. This is an anti-replication strategy that does nothing to stop the infection, and many strains of the virus have found ways around these drugs and continue reproducing. Given this discovery, a new vaginal gel could possibly be used in places where HIV is prominent. It can be used as a preventative measure to stop the initial infection and prevent the spread of HIV. The bee venom HIV study was published a several days ago in the journal <em>Antiviral Therapy.</em></span></div><div style="line-height: 20.99431800842285px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More than 34 million people are living with HIV/AIDS worldwide, and over 3 million of them are under the age of 15. Everyday, thousands of people contract HIV around the world.</span></div><div style="line-height: 20.99431800842285px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is also important to note the debate surrounding HIV and AIDS. Findings suggest there is not solid scientific evidence that exists today to prove the existence of HIV. AIDS is also under great debate as in some countries it is considered to be one thing while in another, it is something totally different. One can literally be diagnosed with AIDS in one country but not in another. AIDS is often is simply a term for a HUGE umbrella of potential diseases. The only common factor found amongst definitions is if the body’s T-cell count reduces below a specific level. Why is there such a lack of distinction about what AIDS truly is? Why so many different definitions?</span></div><blockquote class="" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: none; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Because it has been surrounded with so much emotion, very few people are capable of looking at AIDS logically.”</span><footer style="margin-top: 10px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Mark Gabrish Conlan, AIDS researcher</span></footer></blockquote><blockquote class="" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: none; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“If there is evidence that HIV causes AIDS, there should be scientific documents which either singly or collectively demonstrate that fact, at least with a high probability. There is no such document.”</span><footer style="margin-top: 10px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Dr. Kary Mullis, Biochemist, 1993 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.</span></footer></blockquote><blockquote class="" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: none; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Up to today there is actually no single scientifically convincing evidence for the existence of HIV. Not even once such a retrovirus has been isolated and purified by the methods of classical virology.”</span><footer style="margin-top: 10px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Dr. Heinz Ludwig Sanger, Emeritus Professor of Molecular Biology and Virology, Max-Planck-Institutes for Biochemistry, Munchen.</span></footer></blockquote><blockquote style="border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: none; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px;"><div style="border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: none; line-height: 1.6em; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“…instead of trying to prove his insane theories about AIDS to his peers…he went public. Then, with the help of Margaret Heckler, former head of Health and Human Services, who was under great political pressure to come up with an answer to AIDS, the infamous world press announcement of the discovery of the so-called AIDS virus came about. This great fraud is now responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands… It was no accident that Gallo just happened to patent the test for HIV the day after the announcement…Gallo is now a multi-millionaire because of AIDS and his fraudulent AIDS test.”</span></div></blockquote><div style="line-height: 20.99431800842285px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Until a complete verdict is in on HIV, it is important to realize that it is unclear whether or not HIV truly exists and we may not fully understand it as much as we think. This is NOT a conspiracy. Among the scientific community this has been a debate for many years. Its critical we do not simply pass this off as a conspiracy cause if it were that simple there would not be such a huge debate. You can read more <strong><a href="http://www.collective-evolution.com/2011/12/19/hiv-myth-hiv-causes-aids/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s linear; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s linear;" target="_blank">HERE</a></strong> if you choose.</span></div><div style="line-height: 20.99431800842285px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Sources:</span></div><div style="line-height: 20.99431800842285px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <a href="http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/25061.aspx" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s linear; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s linear;">http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/25061.aspx</a></span></div><div style="line-height: 20.99431800842285px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/257437.php" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s linear; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s linear;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/257437.php</span></a></div><div style="line-height: 20.99431800842285px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2007/02/01/A-Warning-About-HIV-Treatments-and-Testing.aspx" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s linear; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s linear;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2007/02/01/A-Warning-About-HIV-Treatments-and-Testing.aspx</span></a></div> <!-- Begin BidVertiser code --><br /> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript1.1" SRC="http://bdv.bidvertiser.com/BidVertiser.dbm?pid=579098%26bid=1449088" type="text/javascript"></SCRIPT><br /> <noscript><a href="http://www.bidvertiser.com/bdv/BidVertiser/bdv_advertiser.dbm">marketing</a></noscript><br /> <!-- End BidVertiser code --> <br /> <div style="line-height: 20.99431800842285px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2001/09/05/hiv-aids.aspx" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s linear; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s linear;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2001/09/05/hiv-aids.aspx </span></a></div><div style="line-height: 20.99431800842285px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/09/bee-venom-kills-hiv-cells_n_2843743.html" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s linear; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s linear;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/09/bee-venom-kills-hiv-cells_n_2843743.html</span></a></div><div style="line-height: 20.99431800842285px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/11/analysts-cautious-toward-hiv-solution/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s linear; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s linear;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/11/analysts-cautious-toward-hiv-solution/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS</span></a></div><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.99431800842285px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/03/13/bee-venom-destroys-human-immunodeficiency-virus-hiv/#sthash.AciaUbDN.dpuf</span></span><br /> <!-- BEGIN TAG - DO NOT MODIFY --><br /> <script type="text/javascript"> //<![CDATA[ epom_key = "585a1f37f0a87ff49f68b4ff36bf96f4"; epom_channel = ""; epom_code_format = "ads"; epom_ads_host = "//www.adshost2.com"; epom_click = ""; epom_custom_params = {}; epom_width = "728"; epom_height = "90"; epom_sandbox_configuration = "allow-forms, allow-pointer-lock, allow-popups, allow-same-origin, allow-scripts, allow-top-navigation"; document.write("<script type='text\/javascript' src='"+(location.protocol == 'https:' ? 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Bee Venom Destroys Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)

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This Man Injected his Newborn Baby With HIV. But That’s Not Even the Most Shocking Part

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His father was called the 'worst kind of war criminal' and told he would burn in hell by the judge who sentenced him to life in prison.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But Brryan Jackson, from St Louis, said he forgives his dad for doing the unthinkable - injecting him with HIV-tainted blood when he was a baby just so he could avoid paying child support. </span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Despite being given months to live after the sickening incident, the virus has been undetectable in Brryan, now aged 22, for the last five years - something doctors have called nothing short of miraculous.</span></div> <div class="clear" style="border: 0px !important; clear: both; float: none !important; height: 0px !important; line-height: 0 !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; width: auto;"> </div> <div class="artSplitter" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="Brryan Jackson, from St Louis, said he forgives his dad for doing the unthinkable - injecting him with HIV-tainted blood when he was a baby just so he could avoid paying child support" class="blkBorder" data-track-pos="0" height="493" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/10/02/article-2441633-1877AC5B00000578-308_634x493.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="634"></span></div> <div class="imageCaption" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brryan Jackson, from St Louis, said he forgives his dad for doing the unthinkable - injecting him with HIV-tainted blood when he was a baby just so he could avoid paying child support</span></div> </div></div>

This Man Injected his Newborn Baby With HIV. But That’s Not Even the Most Shocking Part

His father was called the 'worst kind of war criminal' and told he would burn in hell by the judge who sentenced him to life in pr...

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