Comment by d--b

You're quite upset. It doesn't help.

Ok, yes you're right : medical stuff never yields zero risk nor side effects, I should have been more nuanced. And yes, Zika infection probably doesn't cure GBM either. There. Happy?

Yet, there have been clinical trials where people have voluntarily been inoculated by a live zika virus shot to test if a Zika vaccine was working. So real doctors have done it before, and on people who were not going to die 6 months later.

See here:

https://magazine.publichealth.jhu.edu/2023/how-human-challen...

So you can blame me all you want for suggesting this CrAzY IdEa, but you should also be pissed at those doctors who actually did it in clinical trials.

From my point of view the situation is:

1. There is a non-zero probability that the Zika virus aggressively attacks GBM cells, as suggested by a whole bunch of medical literature.

2. Current treatments are not working well and do induce extremely debilitating side effects.

3. There have been clinical trials where people have been voluntarily infected with Zika.

It seems to me that the logical conclusion is that we could try and cure GBM patient by infecting them with a live Zika virus, exactly the same way as we did to test the Zika vaccine.

But instead doctors say we should follow a protocol that we know doesn't work and is very heavy in terms of side effects. And people just keep dying really fast, without trying anything new.

It just pisses me off.

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Re: my friend has cancer and not me. Is there anything I wrote that suggests I am forcing anything upon him? I haven't told him anything about the research I am looking into. You're just too angry for some reason...