Alligator Blood Studied For Anti Infective Properties

I'm not making this up, and I got more intrigued as I read the story.

Go read it. The money line:

"They don't need to be exposed to any microorganism such as bacteria, viruses, fungi for their bodies to respond against them," Danville says.

Viruses? How innnttteeerresttinggg. Unfortunately, those don't appear to be the focus:

"Ultimately, we would like to determine what the chemical structure is," Darville says. "Once we can do that, we could eventually develop these into different anti-bacterial and anti-fungal drugs."

Sure. Nobody likes the stubborn athlete's foot or flesh-eating bacteria, but whatcha gonna do when bird flu mutates and passes by human to human contact?

Oldies but goodies

Nice to see that some things don't change.

It is comforting to know that disaster is always just around the corner. It makes me think of the insurance commercial about risk never sleeping. Pestilence doesn't either. Yipee skipee.

More Bird Flu

This is one of my hot-button issues. There has been another outbreak in Pakistan.

Am I the only one who is worried that this is being investigated by an arm of the UN...yes, the blue-helmeted kleptocrats who can only seem to perofrm two functions adequately: Denounce Israel and the US?

It is probably only a matter of time...and then things will really suck for a while.

An interstesting read, if you like this sort of thing...

This caught my attention because I remembered reading an article in Rolling Stone back in the early 90's that made some of the same conclusions, only it traced the leap between species to the use of certain types of monkey tissue to cultivate live polio virus for use in innoculations for the populations in Africa. Maybe someone should write a book or something.

Sounds...Lovely, Really.

I came across this story today. All I could think of when reading it was the potential side effects announced on the prescription drug ads they televise here. You know the ones I'm talking about...*in shiny announcer voice* "Side efects may include cough, dry mouth, brain liquification, head implosion, and weakened immune system. You should not take Gleeminex if you have an aversion to mood altering substances or you possess a healthy desire to continue drawing breath."

Can't imagine why this caught my attention...

Certainly something like this would be funny if it weren't something I'm afraid we're going to see more of...

Oh. Yea.

And people think its funny that I don't like mushrooms.