new concept: Species Viral Volume Index

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a_plutonium - 18 Aug 2006 08:21 GMT

With the experience of losing my male cat this week, I have explored
how many different viruses parasitize cat species. And it is a huge
number with perhaps the worst being panleukopenia and then there is
feline leukemia which caused my cat to go. Question: is feline leukemia
target male cats more than females?

Anyway, from looking into viruses that attack the cat species, I am in
need of a concept. A concept that gauges how bad off a species is to
viral attacks. Now maybe such a concept is going to be meaningless, or
maybe it is useful.

The idea is that if we compare viruses that attack cat species with
human species is there some sort of measuring rod?

It looks to me as though cat species has many more viruses that are
deadly to cats and the probability of long life is small when compared
to humans.

The worst virus for humans as of today is HIV and the worst for cats is
panleukopenia. Of all humans, HIV has infected less than a few
percentage points. Of all cats, feline leukemia and panleukopenia have
infected 1/2 of the world population of cats (my guess).

What I am saying is that the life of a cat is very much at huge risk of
dying from virus whereas the life of a human is very low risk of dying
from virus when compared to cats.

So can I construct a meaningful Virus Assault Index for every species.
I suppose I need to find some physical parameter. Such as the total
volume of human cells and the total volume of viruses within all
humans. Then find the same for cats. This would provide a hard number
and meaningful number. So, does the cat species have one of the highest
Index for viruses?

If such a viral index is possible, then is the cat species ranked very
high? And is there some species with the highest ranking, possibly
going extinct? And would there be a connection with the index and the
process of going extinct?

Archimedes Plutonium
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a_plutonium - 19 Aug 2006 07:28 GMT

Now a concept is no good unless it can be measured. And it is very
difficult to measure the volume of human cells in one body and the
volume of viruses in that same body, let alone for every member of a
given species. But what can be easily measured is a frequency of
averages. Say we take 10 cats at random and 10 humans at random and
measured for the presence of viruses. And we find that of the 10 cats
each had over 25 viruses. And of the 10 humans each had over 9 viruses
but less than 15.

So this is the beginnings of a concept that is measurable, and we can
make the concept more crisp and more sharpened.

It is an important concept for it harps back to my notion that the
human genome is more than the DNA of cells but includes all the cancers
and viruses that afflict humanity. We should think of viruses as human
genome satellites.

Archimedes Plutonium
www.iw.net/~a_plutonium
whole entire Universe is just one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies

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a_plutonium - 19 Aug 2006 07:45 GMT

And another immediate use of such index is how much volume of a human
body can be cancer cells yet still be alive? Or how much volume of a
human can be viral particles and still be alive?

Now I put the term "volume" for the index, but the index could be to
number-count. How many cells and how many viral particles.

And this concept should be applied to cancer as well as viruses. So we
have a Cancer Volume Index or a Cancer Number-Count Index. Or a Viral
Number-Count Index.

Some may be confused as to where all this started and why brew a new
concept. This started this week when my male cat died of feline
leukemia and looking into viruses that attack cats I was struck by the
amount of viruses and number of viruses that attack cats. It is a
wonder that any cat is alive and healthy.

So I want a Index that compares the cat species and how much afflicted
they are to viruses for it seems an abnormal high affliction. And I
would guess this affliction is due to the fact that cats are humans
pets which have grown overpopulated for which wild Nature would never
have permitted this cat overpopulation and thus a huge reservoir of
viral diseases for cats. If humanity were removed from Earth tomorrow,
by the end of the year, 90% of all cats would be dead due to viruses
and the remaining live cats would fit into Nature properly.

This is important for humanity with upcoming birdflu. In that humanity
is overpopulated and as we increase our populations we increase the
viral resvoir that like panleukopenia can kill 90% of all cats in a
given area, so will humanity have viruses that kills 90% of all
humanity in a given area.

Human population should be around 2-3 billion and not its current 7
billion. I say 2-3 billion because at that number, all humans can live
well and all can live on recyclable resources. And at that number we do
not force the extinction of all other animals and plants. Our present
course forces the extinction of all animals in the wild that are larger
than a rabbit.

Archimedes Plutonium
www.iw.net/~a_plutonium
whole entire Universe is just one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies

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Natural Science Forum / Biology / Biology / August 2006

new concept: Species Viral Volume Index