heavy metal viral inhibition?

[Camilla Cracchiolo]

It's possible that the heavy metal germicides inhibit viruses in vitro.  
There's five: silver, mercury and I forget the other three.  They 
denature proteins and apparently also precipitate bacteria.  So it seems 
to me like they could precipitate viruses as well.  People do make claims 
for the antiviral properties of colloidal silver, but I have yet to see 
any good research proving this.

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   "The trick is to keep an open mind, without it being so open
                      that your brain falls out."

           Camilla Cracchiolo, RN   camilla at primenet.com

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