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Re: Something scary about "animal" diseases- Praziquantel Send a noteboard - 17/08/2011 04:45:27 AM
Well, I have a friend in pharma research who read something terrifying lately. It seems that an unusually large number of people who are working with animal models of neurodegenerative diseases are coming down with those same diseases themselves. The implications of this are staggering- it means prions could be causing all kinds of things, and just exposure to animal CNS/PNS tissue is enough to be a risk factor.

Well that just about seals MY fate :P
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For the second time, another disease has been declared "eradicated" - 16/08/2011 11:11:20 PM 1236 Views
Something scary about "animal" diseases- - 16/08/2011 11:51:45 PM 785 Views
I was reading about prions at Cracked.com earlier. - 17/08/2011 01:51:29 AM 827 Views
don't be ridiculous, you don't need to encounter ANY animal - 17/08/2011 02:02:04 AM 724 Views
Technically, humans are animals, but that was actually my point. - 17/08/2011 02:29:46 AM 859 Views
lol that's hysterical - 17/08/2011 03:15:49 AM 714 Views
Wiki is vague on this. - 17/08/2011 07:52:09 AM 733 Views
from what we were taught - 17/08/2011 08:12:06 AM 731 Views
And another scary thing- - 17/08/2011 03:57:28 PM 717 Views
yah, prions are a scary scary thing. - 17/08/2011 01:58:53 AM 732 Views
Well, my paranoia is grounded. - 17/08/2011 04:01:02 PM 700 Views
oh it's definitely grounded. - 17/08/2011 06:33:29 PM 699 Views
Re: Something scary about "animal" diseases- - 17/08/2011 04:45:27 AM 739 Views
Sorry. - 17/08/2011 03:58:39 PM 790 Views
Re: Sorry. - 17/08/2011 09:46:59 PM 742 Views
Interesting. - 18/08/2011 08:30:39 PM 747 Views
lol you know what's funny? - 18/08/2011 10:21:53 PM 677 Views
Wait, what? We do?? - 19/08/2011 07:02:46 PM 831 Views
oh there's no huge funny stories - 20/08/2011 02:31:35 PM 634 Views
Turns out you're right - 18/08/2011 10:36:42 PM 799 Views
Huh. - 19/08/2011 07:05:04 PM 650 Views
*shudder* *NM* - 17/08/2011 06:57:33 PM 330 Views
If Rinderpest = Foot & Mouth, it most certainly wasn't gone from the First World years ago. - 17/08/2011 05:51:41 PM 755 Views
no, that's not what I meant - 17/08/2011 06:30:28 PM 677 Views
Ah, that's obvious now I read it again. - 17/08/2011 06:52:57 PM 696 Views
yah, as far as they know the chunnel wasn't the cause either - 18/08/2011 02:34:37 AM 769 Views

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