Influenza Antiviral liquid ventilation technique

Developed by: Adam Outlaw

This report outlines a technique I recently conceived that may just nullify one
of humankind’s worst foes... The deadly and highly mutative “super” influenza v
irus.

From the dawn of our shared planetary evolution we have fought onslaughts of mar
auding viruses using our will and as of recently our skill. This synergy between
our biological immune reaction and our technological aids seems only fitting fo
r our species and perhaps just the edge we need against this potential airborne
apocalypse.
Basically, the difference between the common flu and a “super flu” would be the
ability and speed of the particular pathogen to mutate or change therefore overw
helm its host. One notable example of such a super bug was the Spanish influenza
outbreak of 1918 which circled the globe in less than four months and killed ap
proximately one out of every three human lives during that time. This event was
deemed by many as the greatest medical holocaust in history.
The advancements I’m about to discuss would not be classified strictly as an pre
ventive measure, but more so as a novel approach to both save the otherwise term
inally infected as well as produce superior antiviral inoculates.
The classic medical model to my understanding attempts to locate the earliest kn
own infected person/s (who survived) before the strain mutated dangerously, etc.
Then they take that person/s natural antibodies, process them and eventually
make an antiviral serum to distribute widely. While useful it still lacks dynam
ic real time application and more importantly relies on locating patient zero in
the disease chain.
It occurred to me that one of the main life threatening vectors of influenza was
that it tends to fill the lungs with fluid (caused by a secondary bacterial pne
umonia) therefor drowning its victim before ones own immune system could effecti
vely handle the threat. That and a few other things like excessive fever, hemor
rhaging and cytokine storming would normally overwhelm the host body.
The number one factor to this would be that most deaths caused by H1N1 viruses o
r its close variants seem to all come from the secondary bacterial pneumonia in
the lungs which then seems responsible for the eventual cytokine storm reaction!
!!
NOTE: {Cytokine storm} basically refers to a potentially fatal immune over-react
ion in the body to a massive foreign disease factor resulting in a sort of immun
e system feedback loop.
I propose that to counter this lung drowning effect one might utilize Partial or
full liquid ventilation with perflurocarbon. This is the same stuff used in exp
erimental deep sea diving and various other medical treatments like in artificia
l breathing for premature infants.
NOTE: {Perflurocarbon} simply put was originally a liquid chemical product engin
eered and used in the Manhattan Project to help make atomic grade uranium. Latte
r in 1966 Leland C. Clark experimented with its application as an airless way to
breath underwater for it could carry oxygen and remove carbon dioxide by liquid
transfer. The lungs would be flooded partly or fully with this liquid to facili
tate the normal gas to blood respiration cycle of mammals. In the world of mov
ies James Cameron’s film “The Abyss” also featured a character using liquid brea
thing to dive thousands of feet without compressing.
Even if the victims lungs fill some by bacterial infection the PLV technique wit
h perflurocarbon should give enough life saving respiration/toxin removal to kee
p the victim alive long enough to naturally fight off the influenza infection, e
tc. I might also state that perflurocarbon can be chilled to reduce fevers and
dosed with sedatives and/or antiviral/bacterial agents, etc too.
Those added PLV agents would directly enter the system and be administered where
they are needed most. Other things such as full or partial life support may be
needed till the worst has passed. Mobil medical units fitted with such a setup
should be located near all major transportation/medical network hubs like inter
national airports, city hospitals, etc.
The next innovation I thought would result from using such a procedure would be
that if you can save a few normally fatal cases with liquid ventilation you coul
d then harvest antibodies of the fresh mutant viral strain. This should make for
a much more quick, simple and dynamic vaccine inoculate.
Further note that even if the virus again mutates or breaks off a sister strain
all’s one needs to do would be to quarantine, then repeat this Influenza Antivir
al liquid ventilation technique or IALVT till full eradication occurs.
With the recent advent of the H1N1 swine flu circling the globe theirs a real po
ssibility for another catastrophic pandemic & economic infrastructure collapse..
. only now with 6 or so billion lives instead of 1.6 billion like in 1918. We al
so face the added speed of continental and international travel to further compl
icate its spread. Recall that the 1918 outbreak was mild in the spring only to r
eturn extra lethal in the fall of that year. We may just be about to repeat that
history... only this time we might be more fortunate fighting it.

Our enemy seems again at the gates, prepare for war.........................