Soler Claudin C and five other researchers in Sto. Tomas, Mexico, have found that pathogen free chicken, when exposed to the HIV virus, produce IgY antibodies in their eggs. Purified HIV-1 virus was injected into 5 chickens 4 times. Blood serum and eggs were tested weekly for antibodies to the HIV virus. They report that the transfer of the IgY antibodies from the chicken to their eggs are similar to transplacental transfer than occurs in mammals. The IgY antibodies are transferred to the yolks of the eggs.
They reported that IIIb/LAV ELISA tests found the presence of high titer specific HIV-specific IgY antibodies in the serum and in the purified IgY yolk fractions of the 5 immunized chickens. Western blot assays with the same antigen demonstrated the presence of specific anti-HIV-1 antibodies against p17, p24, p31, p41, p51, p55 and p66 while no clear response was found against gp120 of the HIV virus. The researchers reported their techniques would be useful in developing a passive immune vaccine. (1)
An earlier article by Kovgan AA et al and published in Japan in 1989 found specific immunoglobulins from egg yolks of Japanese quail immunized with influenza and HIV-1 viruses (2). Curiously enough, a short abstract published in 1996 from researchers, Vodovozova EL et al, possibly from either Poland or Russia found variations of phosphatidylcholine in egg yolk that exhibited significant anti-HIV activity (3). Here, no mention was made of immunizing the chickens. Is this the possible resurrection of AL721, the egg yolk lecithin widely used in the PWA community in the late 1980, at least, until the new “AIDS cure” that arrived on the scene that is known as AZT. What would have happened if the makers of AL721 and other look-a-like egg yolk lecithin products had produced the supplement from the yolks of hens exposed to the HIV virus? Would it have worked as effectively as today’s drug cocktails? Would it have led to a cure (total viral eradication)? No adverse side effects have ever been reported from the use of AL721 and egg yolk lecithin.
Mary J., from Fresno, CA, called and told me of a product she has been using for the past two weeks called Bio-Choice Immune 26. She said it was made from the eggs of chickens immunized with a variety of infections. She said she has Chronic Fatigue and that the product helped her very much. She gave me the web site www.legacyusa.com as a place to find out more information about it. Howver, when she told me that the product was sold through network marketing, I lost a bit of my enthusiasm. I did check out the web site and found several infectious agents listed to which the chickens were exposed but not HIV nor HHV-6. Whether this product would help anyone with HIV or HHV-6 is anybody’s guess. Mary J. can be reached at 559-435-0238.
Unless the chickens were immunized for HIV and its various strains, I doubt that it would be of any more value than other egg yolk lecithin products still on the market. A supplement manufacturer could secretly expose the chicken to the HIV virus, but how would this information be communicated to those who need it without the government finding out and would the government move to take the product off the market because it would then be an unapproved new drug? This publication would not be a good source to report on a secret medicine development since we mail over 100 copies of this magazine to the National Institute of Health and the CDC.
The conversation with Mary J. did set my mind to thinking of that famous farmer from Minnesota, Herb Saunders, and of a way for a consumer to immunize a chicken for their own personal benefit in battling HIV, HHV-6, possibly hepatitis and Lyme disease and other infections. Note: Saunders himself faced a jury trial several years ago for practicing medicine without a license but was acquitted by the jury. The stress of the litigation took its toll on Saunders and he passed away from natural causes about 2 years ago.
A few years ago I reported in one of the past issues of Positive Health News, in fact so long ago, I forgot which issue, of a farmer in Minnesota who immunized pregnant cows with the blood from persons with various illnesses. About 6 to 8 weeks before the calf is expected, he would take about one teaspoon of blood from a customer and using a hypodermic needle with a plastic sleeve around it would inject some of the blood in both the hind teats of the cow. In a few days, the cow would get a fever and an immune system reaction. When the calf was born a few months later, the first 2 or 3 milkings of Colostrum are frozen in ice cube trays. One or two ice cubes of the frozen Colostrum is thawed out and consumed daily. Saunders reported that everyone who used this Colostrum recovered from their infections and he told me of one person with AIDS who made a remarkable recovery in health although he had no lab statistics to share at the time. In fact, PCR wasn’t yet available to the public for measuring viral loads in 1990. Saunders reported that the person did not continue the treatment and contact was lost.
The first few milkings of cows, sheep, goats and all other mammals contains antibodies and other immune factors (transfer factor) to pass on to their offspring. With species of birds who lay eggs, they have one shot to pass on their past experiences of immune resistance to their offspring and these factors are found in raw eggs. Based on the little published research I have seen, most likely these immune factors are found in the yolks of the egg.
After publication of the article on the Herb Saunders method, a few readers both here and abroad said they would attempt to duplicate the Saunder’s protocol. After conversations that went on for months, no one was able or willing to follow through and complete the experiment. There were several reasons for this. One being the cost of buying a cow - $2000 to $3000 dollars. Then there is the problem of finding a pregnant cow and a place to keep the animal. A cow or goat is not a small pet you can bring to live with you in a city apartment. On the other hand, a chicken is much smaller and costs less than $5.00 apiece and you could carry it into your apartment in a cardboard box. If your walls are not too thin and the hens do not cackle too much, you neighbors should not complain. You could keep the chicken in a large bird cage or a dog cage.
First, I would go to a few local health food stores, the ones that actually sell health foods and not just supplements. Buy a few cartons of eggs. On the carton is usually the name of the farmer and the city where they are produced. Use information from the carton and contact the phone company and get a phone number and address. Go and visit the farmer in person. While you are there, you can ask what it would cost to buy a couple of hens about to lay eggs or ones that are already doing so. If they decline to sell the hens, ask them what the hens are worth to them. When they give you a price reach for your wallet. I would avoid discussing what you plan to do with the hens except to tell them that you have the space for them and want the fresh eggs daily. Let the farmer catch the hens and place them in your cage. When you get home, cover the cage with a small blanket and carry it into your apartment.
Of course before you get to this point, find a source of feed for the chickens. In fact, before you buy the chickens, ask the farmer what he feeds them. Look for a farm co-op in a rural area or ask your local pet supply dealer. Having been raised on a farm myself, I can tell you chickens will eat just about anything from grass to earthworms to corn and other grains. Farm Co-ops sell premixed feed grains for chickens. Obtain a feed as close to organic as you can find.
Since most people don’t have hundreds of dollars to spend to purchase pure viral antigens, the method of transfer of the viral antigens will be the same as the way the disease is naturally transferred - exposing the blood capillaries of the chicken to a few drops of the infected blood. There are a couple of ways of doing this but first you must immobilize the chicken. With leather gloves, pick up the chicken and lay it on its side and then tie its legs together. Then wrap a large towel around the chicken so it wings won’t flap.
1. Prick your finger with a sterilized pin until a few drops of blood come out. Draw the blood into a sterile hypodermic needle syringe. Then pinch the skin of the chicken anywhere on its body so it is raised between your fingers. Insert the needle into the part that is pinched and raised and into the chicken’s skin about 1/16th to 1/8 of an inch and inject 2 or 3 drops of blood. That should be all it takes. Withdraw the needle and place a small piece of gauze and tape over it, although this may not be necessary.
Note: you can usually buy a hypodermic needle syringe over-the-counter at your local pharmacy. You want only to place a few drops of blood just under the surface of the skin of the chicken and not deep in the muscles and you don’t want to inject too much blood or you will kill the chicken as both types of blood will fight each other. The idea is to get the infections to move into the chickens small blood vessels from the human blood. Once the viruses are in the blood vessels of the chicken, they should multiply and set off an immune reaction.
2. An alternative method, without using a hypodermic needle, is to scratch the skin with a razor blade about 1/4 to 1/2 inch in length and just deep enough to draw a small amount of blood from the chicken. Then dab the chicken’s blood with a cotton swab and using two finger spread the skin apart at the point of incision and place 2 or 3 drops of the infected blood in the scratch, enough to expose the chickens blood to the human blood. Don’t put any antiseptics over the cut or it will defeat the whole purpose of the experiment. If you have more than one chicken to immunize, tag the chickens leg with some colored tape to identify whose blood it was exposed to.
If the chicken gets infected with the viruses in your blood, it should show signs of becoming heated (a fever) in a few days. If it is already laying eggs, it should stop for about a week give or take a few days. When it resumes laying eggs, the eggs should contain powerful immune factors to attack any and possibly all of the infections that have affected the person. If signs indicate that the chicken did not pick up the infection after 2 weeks, you may need to try a second immunization attempt.
When you get your first egg, find a veterinarian to test it for salmonella. If it is salmonella free, it should be safe to eat the raw egg. Wash the eggs before you crack them to remove any topical bacteria. Then find a recipe and make yourself an eggnog. One raw egg a day, yolk and whites, should be consumed.
I hope that readers with HIV and other conditions can be found to try this experiment, especially readers who have exhausted all drug treatment options due to viral resistance. What do they have to lose? If you do try this experiment, contact me and let me know the results so we can share them with others.
Note: Salmonella can be treated with prescription drugs and also with grapefruit seed extract - add about 5 drops to the water a chicken drinks once a day for 3 days. Another treatment is the probiotic L. Salivarius - sprinkle some on their food once a day for about one week. Readers who have picked up salmonella infections have told me they got rid of it with either grapefruit seed extract (10 drops in a glass of water 3 times a day) or by taking the probiotic L.Salivarius.
Reader with HIV reports on effects of eating a raw egg for one year As I was making my final changes to this article on immunizing chickens, the phone rang and I talked with a long term HIV survivor, names Shelia, who has been HIV + since 1988. She has never used prescription drugs all these years. No PCR test was taken in the past 4 years. In 1996, viral load was 20,000. Her CD4 test of two weeks ago was 258.
I thought that this was a rather high number of CD4’s to have after being HIV+ for 13 years so I inquired further. I asked her in what year since 1988 did she feel her best. She said it was 1993. I asked: What did you do during that year? Without mentioning to her at the time I was writing this article on immunized eggs, she said: “Every day I blended a handful of fresh sprouted seeds with one raw egg (organic). I would add some digestive enzymes and drink this. I did this for about one year...My skin glowed. I never felt better.”
Did you ever pick-up a salmonella infection from eating raw eggs during the year? She said; “No, I did not. It could be because I only used organic eggs.” I asked her if she felt so good drinking this mixture every day, why did she stop? She said it was because she was doing so many different things and grew tired of it all. I inquired further her if she had any lab results during this year. She said “No, as long as I am feeling good, I stay away from doctors.”
She said took up drinking alcohol about the same time she stopped her daily regimen of the raw egg and sprout mixture. In 1994, she got married and in 1996 had a child. She was under tremendous pressure to take drugs to stop the HIV virus for infecting the child, but resisted. I asked her: Is the child OK? She replied: “The child is very healthy and was born HIV negative.”
I closed our conversation by telling her about this article and she responded with surprise and was fascinated with the idea of immunizing a chicken with her own blood. She closed by thanking me for the book on the immune system I was donating to her since she is on disability.
Shelia said she was going out this weekend to buy two chickens and would inoculate them with her own blood. She is also going to buy two hens for a friend with Lyme disease.
The conversation that started me writing this article occurred on Good Friday with Mary J and ended with the phone call from Shelia. Time will tell if the results of this approach to treating HIV is effective as persons with the virus try this hands-on approach in immunology and report their results. We will wait with cautiously guarded expectations as we have been down this road before of many disappointments. Meanwhile, we must continue to pray and keep the faith. The persistance of fasting and prayer will one day bear fruit.
References:
1. Int’l AIDS Conf. 1998;12:790 (abstract 41239).
2. Dokl Akad Nauk SSSR. 1989 Jul-Aug;307(1):229-33
3. Vodozova EL et al; Bioorg Khim. 1996 Jun; 22(6):451-7
