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To: Voltaire who wrote (54316)	12/15/1999 9:45:00 PM
From: Voltaire	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 152472

OT OT OT Did you know The Geological Survey recently reported that the Earth's atmosphere still contained 38% oxygen as late as 100 years ago. during the 1950's the percentage of oxygen in our atmosphere dropped to 21% and today only 19% of our gaseous atmosphere is oxygen! the continued drop in oxygen levels reflects an increase in oxygen consuming species ( including the runaway human population ) and fossil fuel burning machines etc. and less oxygen producers ( i.e. - decreasing acreages of rain forests and aquatic algae ). The net result of this continued drop in oxygen levels is a relative " anaerobic state " compared with 38% of just 100 years ago and a very marked "anaerobic" compared with the 50% oxygen levels 75 million years ago. The important thing here is that most pathogenic organisms (desease producing) are by themselves anaerobic and are "happier," flourish and reproduce with more vigor in the absence of oxygen (i.e. - gangrene organisms, type A Streptococcus, etc.) or are able to survive and grow in living cells weakened by low oxygen environments (i.e.- viruses,yeast, fungus, cancer etc.). THE QUESTION IS - why have anaerobic diseases "suddenly appeared" in the 80's and 90's - the last quarter of the 20th century diseases with which we have little or no human history or experience? regardless of the name, tuberculosis or consumption or scrufula can be found in 5,000 year old mummies from Egypt and China, 1000 year old corpses from Peru and ancient writings from the Greeks and Romans. The"new" modern day anaerobic diseases have no history with humans, nor will you find them in biblical or ancient writings describing HIV, EBV, CMV, Herpes II, Hanta Virus, Candida, Toxic shock from E. coli or "flesh eating" Type A Streptococcus. It appears that the anaerobic disease causing organisms laid around in dormant states ( for 100's, 1,000's or even millions of years) as long as relatively high levels of oxygen ( i.e. - 50, 38, or even 21%) were present in our atmosphere to inhibit their activity and growth - with the precipitous dip in atmospheric oxygen we are having an " oxygen counter revolution " with a return to an anaerobic bios! V