The Scariest Viruses In The World

The vast majority of viruses are harmless; some even beneficial. But we all know the bad ones can be really dangerous. Here’s a handful of the top killers, selected from the book VIRUS BLITZ.

1. Without doubt, the deadliest virus of all is rabies. It is virtually 100% fatal, once the disease develops. Common hosts for the virus include warm-blooded animals, such as bats, monkeys, foxes, skunks, wolves, coyotes, dogs, and cats. The virus is primarily found in the nerves and saliva of infected animals, and is usually transmitted via bites. In human infections (following a bite from a rabid animal), the virus enters the peripheral nervous system, travels backwards to the brain, and affects the host’s central nervous system, eventually the brain (causing encephalitis, or swelling of the brain).

The final state of the patient is one of the most pitiable sights in all of medicine; it’s called hydrophobia (aversion to water). He or she is desperate with thirst but when water is offered, the patient recoils as if it were a red hot iron. Convulsions start within hours and he or she rapidly expires.

Quick diagnosis is essential (though very difficult) because once symptoms begin, treatment is ineffective. Worldwide, 59,000 people die from rabies each year, with the majority of these cases involving bites from rabid dogs.

Fortunately, Louis Pasteur developed a vaccine which is 100% effective, providing it is administered in time.

2. Ebola virus disease (EVD), formerly known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever comes next. There are five strains of the Ebola virus, each named after countries and regions in Africa: Zaire, Sudan, Tai Forest, Bundibugyo and Reston. The Zaire Ebola virus is the deadliest, with a mortality rate of up to 90 percent. Scientists say Rousettus aegyptiacus (fruit bats or flying foxes), probably brought the Zaire Ebola virus into cities.

3. Almost as deadly is the Marburg virus, said to be between 24% and 88% fatal, with an average of around 50% fatality, depending on the standard of medical care (WHO website). The Marburg virus is transmitted to people from fruit bats and spreads among humans through human-to-human transmission.

It is named after a small and idyllic town on the river Lahn in Germany, where the first outbreak occurred amongst laboratory monkeys. But that has nothing to do with the disease itself, which is endemic in certain African countries. The Marburg virus is a hemorrhagic fever virus meaning, as with Ebola and Lassa fever, the Marburg virus causes bleeding of mucous membranes, skin and organs.

Dramatic reports have remarked that these hemorrhagic fevers are like the patients tissues liquefying and bleeding out, through the mouth and anus. The military calls this step “extreme amplification.” It is as if the virus was trying to turn the human into a copy of itself.

Both Ebola and Marburg are filoviruses (long, stringy threads) and are highly contagious. Human-to-human transmission occurs via skin and mucous membrane contact with bodily fluids (saliva, blood, vomit, urine, stool, sweat, breast milk, semen) of an infected symptomatic person or rarely a nonhuman primate.

Humans are not infectious until they develop symptoms. Symptoms and signs persist in surviving patients for as long as it takes to develop an effective immune response. Typically, surviving patients eliminate the virus entirely and no longer transmit the virus; however, Ebola virus may persist in certain immune-privileged sites (eye, brain, testes).

[from Merck Manual]

4. The Hantavirus describes several types of viruses. It is named after the Hantan river in Korea, where American soldiers were first thought to have been infected with it during the Korean War in 1950. It re-emerged in 1993 in the US as a deadly disease killing young Navaho Indians. Symptoms include lung disease, fever and kidney failure. The hantavirus is transmitted mainly by the deer mouse.

5. Lassa. A nurse in Lassa, Nigeria was the first known person to be infected with Lassa fever (aka. Lassa hemorrhagic fever, LHF). The virus is transmitted by rodents. Cases can be endemic - which means the virus occurs in a specific region, such as in western Africa, and can reoccur there at any time. Scientists believe that 15 percent of rodents in western Africa carry the virus.

6. The various strains of bird flu regularly cause panic, which is perhaps justified because the mortality rate can be as high as 70 percent. But in fact the risk of contracting the H5N1 strain—one of the best known—is quite low. You can only be infected through direct contact with poultry. It is said this explains why most cases appear in Asia, where people often live close to chickens.

Compared to this bevy of brutes, the SARS-Cov-2 virus is mild indeed: it’s 99.5% survivable. That almost harmless.

Prof. Keith Scott-Mumby
The Official Alternative Doctor

[Edited from the book Virus Blitz: A Torrent of Safe, Highly Effective, Yet Little-Known Anti-Viral Remedies]