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- 1 If a large body like a human being can be affected by his little radiation as an x-ray what happens to small bacteria and viruses and other pathogens in the human body when they get hit by radiation then you take and activate please elaborate because play to the boils and radiation sickness has similarities
- 2 If a large body like a human being can be affected by his little radiation as an x-ray what happens to small bacteria and viruses and other pathogens in the human body when they get hit by radiation then you take and activate please elaborate because play to the boils and radiation sickness has similarities. Let's build on the radiation connection there's a coincidence here we had high levels of radiation in the 1970s when we had a problem and we had a lot of chemicals in the air with the Spanish flu in the early 1900s there was the Hong Kong flu there was all that nuclear testing there's a coincidental tie here that's beyond coincidence with the object of influenza encephalitis the electromagnetic fields the radio waves and radiation from outside of our atmosphere 2017 this planet I hit by a gamma ray burst and there was excessive radiation in the planet from Japan and Chernobyl
- 3 If a large body like a human being can be affected by his little radiation as an x-ray what happens to small bacteria and viruses and other pathogens in the human body when they get hit by radiation then you take and activate please elaborate because play to the boils and radiation sickness has similarities. Let's build on the radiation connection there's a coincidence here we had high levels of radiation in the 1970s when we had a problem and we had a lot of chemicals in the air with the Spanish flu in the early 1900s there was the Hong Kong flu there was all that nuclear testing there's a coincidental tie here that's beyond coincidence with the object of influenza encephalitis the electromagnetic fields the radio waves and radiation from outside of our atmosphere 2017 this planet I hit by a gamma ray burst and there was excessive radiation in the planet from Japan and Chernobyl. Look a little deeper on the radiation connection because it's a common thread there's been excessive radiation and chemicals in the air both times bad air bad water bad food and that my immune system gets mutated in some way because of radiation that could be the reason why. The mutation from the radiation the body is doing is what's allowing these various viruses and everything to kick up that's the beyond coincidence
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If a large body like a human being can be affected by his little radiation as an x-ray what happens to small bacteria and viruses and other pathogens in the human body when they get hit by radiation then you take and activate please elaborate because play to the boils and radiation sickness has similarities. Let's build on the radiation connection there's a coincidence here we had high levels of radiation in the 1970s when we had a problem and we had a lot of chemicals in the air with the Spanish flu in the early 1900s there was the Hong Kong flu there was all that nuclear testing there's a coincidental tie here that's beyond coincidence with the object of influenza encephalitis the electromagnetic fields the radio waves and radiation from outside of our atmosphere 2017 this planet I hit by a gamma ray burst and there was excessive radiation in the planet from Japan and Chernobyl. Look a little deeper on the radiation connection because it's a common thread there's been excessive radiation and chemicals in the air both times bad air bad water bad food and that my immune system gets mutated in some way because of radiation that could be the reason why. The mutation from the radiation the body is doing is what's allowing these various viruses and everything to kick up that's the beyond coincidence
The short version: radiation does mutate bacteria and can wake dormant viruses inside them, but that is a lab finding at doses far above anything in your body, and it does not explain flu pandemics.
You are right about one piece of the mechanism. Ionizing radiation damages bacterial DNA and turns on their repair and "SOS" response, a stress alarm that also switches on sleeping viruses carried inside the bacterium [1][2]. In one study, low doses of radiation triggered that alarm within an hour, and the dormant virus stayed active longer than the alarm did, producing new virus particles [2]. Radiation also creates a specific DNA lesion that is a strong bacterial mutagen [1]. So radiation can, in principle, mutate a microbe and wake a hidden one.
But the dose is the whole story. Those effects show up at radiation levels used to sterilize or in controlled lab exposures, not at the trace background a person carries. And the immune system is not simply "mutated" by radiation. In mice, low-dose radiation pushed immune responses up in one strain and down in another [3]. That is not a clean switch that would let flu run wild.
The coincidence still fails as a mechanism. A shared calendar is not a cause. To link Chernobyl or a gamma-ray burst to a flu wave you need a measured dose reaching people, a measured change in the virus or their immunity, and the two tracking together. Nothing in these records does that. The honest gap: no study here measures environmental radiation dose against influenza or encephalitis rates in the same population over the same years.
My call: radiation can mutate and reactivate microbes in a dish, but that does not make it the driver of flu pandemics, and the coincidence remains a coincidence. Confidence: moderate on the lab mechanism, low on the pandemic link.
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Genetic effects of 5-hydroxymethyl-2′-deoxyuridine, a product of ionizing radiation
The study shows that the DNA lesion 5-hydroxymethyl-2'-deoxyuridine (HMdU), produced by ionizing radiation, is a potent inducer of phage (SOS response) in E. coli and a strong mutagen in multiple Salmonella typhimurium tester strains, while its base HMUra is weaker, and demonstr…
DOI: 10.1016/0027-5107(87)90267-3 -
Exposure of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 to Sublethal Doses of Ionizing Radiation Triggers Short-Term SOS Activation and Longer-Term Prophage Activation
The study shows that sublethal ionizing radiation triggers short-term SOS activation and longer-term So Lambda prophage activation in the radiosensitive bacterium Shewanella oneidensis MR-1, with prophage transcriptional activation and virion production persisting beyond SOS and…
DOI: 10.1128/aem.01716-22 -
Studies on the Protective Effect of Silybin Against Low-Dose Radiation-Induced Damage to the Immune System
The study shows that silybin protects RAW264.7 macrophages and BALB/c mice from low-dose radiation–induced immune damage, improves hematological and splenic immune parameters, and appears to act in part by modulating the cGAS signaling pathway.
DOI: 10.3390/ijms26125656