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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 1005 Views
Something scary about "animal" diseases- - 16/08/2011 11:51:45 PM 552 Views
I was reading about prions at Cracked.com earlier. - 17/08/2011 01:51:29 AM 603 Views
don't be ridiculous, you don't need to encounter ANY animal - 17/08/2011 02:02:04 AM 522 Views
Technically, humans are animals, but that was actually my point. - 17/08/2011 02:29:46 AM 657 Views
lol that's hysterical - 17/08/2011 03:15:49 AM 500 Views
Wiki is vague on this. - 17/08/2011 07:52:09 AM 522 Views
from what we were taught - 17/08/2011 08:12:06 AM 519 Views
And another scary thing- - 17/08/2011 03:57:28 PM 506 Views
yah, prions are a scary scary thing. - 17/08/2011 01:58:53 AM 532 Views
Well, my paranoia is grounded. - 17/08/2011 04:01:02 PM 516 Views
oh it's definitely grounded. - 17/08/2011 06:33:29 PM 510 Views
Re: Something scary about "animal" diseases- - 17/08/2011 04:45:27 AM 537 Views
Sorry. - 17/08/2011 03:58:39 PM 524 Views
Re: Sorry. - 17/08/2011 09:46:59 PM 540 Views
Interesting. - 18/08/2011 08:30:39 PM 541 Views
lol you know what's funny? - 18/08/2011 10:21:53 PM 490 Views
Wait, what? We do?? - 19/08/2011 07:02:46 PM 596 Views
oh there's no huge funny stories - 20/08/2011 02:31:35 PM 428 Views
Turns out you're right - 18/08/2011 10:36:42 PM 577 Views
Huh. - 19/08/2011 07:05:04 PM 442 Views
*shudder* *NM* - 17/08/2011 06:57:33 PM 238 Views
If Rinderpest = Foot & Mouth, it most certainly wasn't gone from the First World years ago. - 17/08/2011 05:51:41 PM 530 Views
no, that's not what I meant - 17/08/2011 06:30:28 PM 492 Views
Ah, that's obvious now I read it again. - 17/08/2011 06:52:57 PM 509 Views
yah, as far as they know the chunnel wasn't the cause either - 18/08/2011 02:34:37 AM 537 Views

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