The Health Weblog
The Joys of Cross-Contamination:
So as children go back to school, one of the joys that comes with the territory is sickness.
Schools, ball-pits, & daycare-centers are like stock-exchanges for millions of short little typhoid-marys, infecting eachother with God knows what.
And as other scientists from Duke and IC-L have mystifyingly said before,
That may actually not be such a bad thing…
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Using historical procedures coupled with some clever architecture tricks, two Northeastern U. scientists have created at least the beginnings of 1 new antibiotic, 25 other candidates, and maybe even a whole new Class of them.
(funny how strangely-similar their process was to what those Hygeine Hypothesis guys advised)…
[Ok first, if you haven’t checked out Dirty=Good & The Hygiene Hypothesis, start there; otherwise:]
Just a short while ago, RadioLab replayed their fantastic September ’09 episode on Parasites!
was called “Sculptors of Monumental Narrative”,
About Jasper Lawrence, a man who cured himself of basically ALL allergies,…
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A Little Dirt Could Actually Be a Good Thing:
Championing the emerging field of being as Drrrty as possible, model citizens like Carmen Electra, Paris Hilton and Christina Aguilera may actually be on to something.
In a recent study by Duke researchers, it was shown that wild rats which are exposed to microbes have much higher levels of two antibodies than lab rats.
The difference in the two groups was as low as +2x and as high as +11.5x…
