This seems like it should be a bigger deal:
“The drug, miramistin, was developed for the Soviet Space Program. While little known in the West, it blocks or kills flu, human papillomaviruses (HPV), coronaviruses, adenoviruses and HIV, according to University of Manchester scientists.” [Emphasis added]
A little pricey. $35 for 5 ounces / 150ml.
https://www.amazon.com/Miramistin-150ml-5-Fl-Oz/dp/B0774ZNGW8
This stuff sounds like Kalocin from The Andromeda Strain, the “last ditch” drug demanded by a member of the Wildfire team who is exposed to Andromeda when it eats through the synthetic rubber seals of the lab.
Of course by killing every microorganism in the body, it wipes out your microbiome, and within 6 hours you die a horrible death from some otherwise innocuous agent that invades to now-open ecological niche.
Gee, since Andromeda only survives in a narrow pH range, could they have not put their colleague on some kind of IV drip to alter his blood pH? On the other hand, Andromeda eating through the seals was a much bigger problem at that point than its original mode of infection because of the atom bomb to wipe out the lab if containment is breached.
They went with respiratory alkalosis since the good doctor’s animal lab was sealed off first and nobody could reach him. Before the core seals dissolved contaminating the entire level which was the A-bomb trigger. The real reason he lived was because by the time Andromeda had developed an appetite for the core seal plastics it was no longer fatal to humans. The little rascally reactors….
There is this miracle insecticide for growing fruit called Acetamiprid, which I guess is a synthetic nicotine in the style of Synthehol of SNG fame. It has all of the effects of nicotine in poisoning insects without the side effect of being equally toxic to humans and other mammals.
It is the active ingredient in Ortho Flower Fruit and Vegetable Insect Killer Concentrate, which Scotts-Ortho quietly pulled off the market because enviro-weenies were screaming “It kills bees! It kills bees!”, which is, what is the appropriate term, a “chemical libel”? It is far from being pulled from the market because of the EPA as it is the active ingredient in Assail, only Assail is sold as a gallon of 30% strength granules for about $300 whereas the home gardener could once purchase a quart of the Ortho product at .5 percent concentration (about the same quantity of the active ingredient as a carton of Marlboros) selling for $15. The commercial quantity is a value because it is 240 times the active ingredient, but that quantity would last me a century and a half.
There is an even more potent “neonicotinoid” called thiamethoxam for what I need it for, where a similar lifetime supply can be had for about $100 under the brand name Actara. That is probably a “deal” because it is hundred fold the activity of grinding up a carton of Marlboros to spray on the trees that would cost about $80 at full retail price?
Actara, however, can be purchased in convenient packets for much less money, only this is on e-Bay and it is labeled in Russian letters, much like the above mentioned source of Miramistin.
I guess Actara in the $100 commercial quantity is EPA-labeled and I might know enough of the Russian alphabet with the use of Google Translate to read the label of the small packet? But that is really scary. In the style of street heroin adulterated with Chinese fentanyl, How do I know the Russians haven’t adulterated it with one of their nerve agents to boost it’s “insect knockdown.”
Interesting but there are so many articles floating around about miracle cures. Cool if true.
We can’t use it though. It comes from Russia and the media will say Trump, or someone he knows, owns Russian pharmaceutical companies and that Trump is profiting off his collusion with Russia in the 2016 election.