Prof
Sutiman, a bio-cell professor of Brawijaya University, Malang revealed,
tobacco that grown in some areas in Indonesia can be used to counter
the Ebola virus that is currently being warmly discussed because there
is no cure.
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| Tabacco plant. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/1nM1ZXJ) |
"Ebola
virus that is similar to HIV/AIDS are still not found a cure. However,
to prevent the virus does not extend, is actually quite easy, namely the
tobacco is processed into a vaccine," said Prof. Sutiman in Malang,
Monday, August 25, 2014.
According
to him, the Ebola virus is transmitted through the contact of body or
saliva and can damage the circulatory system to the blood vessels
rupture. Symptoms of Ebola virus in a person, he said, of which is
marked by the body feels hot for two days to three weeks, sore throat,
muscle ached, headache, vomiting, and diarrhea. The ebola virus attack,
said the founder of Healthy Homes with smoking therapy, it can lead to
liver and kidney function decline and blood out of the skin.
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| Tobacco farmers were planting tobacco seeds. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/ZVqh6J) |
Based
on WHO records of 1,716 cases of Ebola virus, among which 1,350 people
died. And people died because the Ebola virus is prevalent in West
Africa, Brinee, Guinea Sierre Leone, Liberia, Negeria, and a number of
countries in the African continent.
"If
you look at the condition, the terrible, especially medicine and has
not been found yet," he said. Furthermore, Prof. Sutiman says that
tobacco has many health benefits. It has been known since it was first
discovered in the United States.
The
Europeans brought the American tobacco to Europe for drugs made from
1500 AD to the present. According to him, in addition used to treat
several diseases, tobacco can also be made to prevent ebola virus
vaccine.
Special
for the ebola virus, in the tobacco plant has tobacco muzaic virus and
it can be inserted antibody genes to antiebola. So, he said, the tobacco
plants could produce antiebola vaccines.
"Therefore,
if we were from the University of Brawijaya is believed and were
appointed to the vaccine, we ara ready," he said. But, said Sutiman, to
develop such a vaccine on the market is very difficult because the
problem is very complex, although he believes if the hoopla behind the
ebola virus will emerge a new vaccine.
According
to him, Indonesia has always been a potential market for the ebola
virus vaccine. "Imagine, how many millions of people who should be
vaccinated, well, it's a business, but to make the vaccine is very easy
and the raw materials from tobacco that thrives in Indonesia," he said
further.
Therefore,
he called on all parties, especially the government, are not easily
ingested global campaign that could destroy the tobacco biological
wealth in Indonesia because Indonesia has a kind of tobacco varieties
and are not owned in many parts of the world.
There
is a kind of Indonesian tobacco can not live in other areas, such as
Madura, Jember, and Temanggung tobacco. Under these conditions, only
natural that the Dutch was very happy while colonized Indonesia because
tobacco is originally from the USA, then brought to Europe that was to
be used as a medicine since the year 1500 AD.
"Long-term
conditions and the extent of this impact should be studied in order not
to harm the country, as we have already experienced in the coconut
oil," he said. He asserted, "So, this tobacco-related campaigns do not
inconsequential, let alone to destroy it because to comply with the
world's tar and nicotine, as we knew just motivated purely business
competition." *** [EKA FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | REPUBLIKA]
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