In the book Plague Time: The New Germ Theory of Disease Paul Ewald looks into the diseases the world faces every day and presents a new theory to what causes them. The book breaks down the current germ theory, causes of this way of thought, and solutions to it. Ewald starts by diving into what the world thinks as everyday diseases including the flu, HIV, and stomach ulcers. The public normally differentiates these infectious disease from chronic diseases like Schizophrenia, Parkinson’s, and Heart Disease. The key difference between these two categories is that one disease is thought to be caused by viruses while the other is thought to be caused by genetics (Chronic Diseases). These diseases have been rarely researched, as doctors have had
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Cancer has previously been thought to not be a “curable” disease in which the cancerous cells can’t ever completely be preventable because it is not caused by a virus or bacterium. Ewald asserts that this is a fallacy and that this disease may be just like the rest: Curable, preventable, and manageable. This hypothesis is backed up with facts particularly about Breast Cancer. In a test study, over 90 percent of women and men tested resulted positive for a specific virus found within the tumorous cells. This shows that there may be a correlation between this virus and this disease. The public is so determined to believe that correlation is not a component to diseases, when there may be more than one answer to this complex problem. Instead of being chronic, Ewald shows that cancer could be a direct result of a cancer causing virus. Victims may not have a genetic predisposition for the cancer itself, but for the cancer causing disease. Overall, the main theme throughout this new disease theory is that germs exactly act like humans. The best fit to survive pass on their genes and the others do not. The global community should now be aware that everything happens for a reason, and there will always be a biological process responsible for controlling something. It is time to delete the mystery from disease and turn the raging diseases of the present, into curable ones of
Cancer has previously been thought to not be a “curable” disease in which the cancerous cells can’t ever completely be preventable because it is not caused by a virus or bacterium. Ewald asserts that this is a fallacy and that this disease may be just like the rest: Curable, preventable, and manageable. This hypothesis is backed up with facts particularly about Breast Cancer. In a test study, over 90 percent of women and men tested resulted positive for a specific virus found within the tumorous cells. This shows that there may be a correlation between this virus and this disease. The public is so determined to believe that correlation is not a component to diseases, when there may be more than one answer to this complex problem. Instead of being chronic, Ewald shows that cancer could be a direct result of a cancer causing virus. Victims may not have a genetic predisposition for the cancer itself, but for the cancer causing disease. Overall, the main theme throughout this new disease theory is that germs exactly act like humans. The best fit to survive pass on their genes and the others do not. The global community should now be aware that everything happens for a reason, and there will always be a biological process responsible for controlling something. It is time to delete the mystery from disease and turn the raging diseases of the present, into curable ones of