08-02-2009, 05:10 PM
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#161
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Spartanville
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Gorillas have been found, for the first time, to be a source of HIV.Previous research had shown the HIV-1 strain, the main source of human infections, with 33m cases worldwide, originated from a virus in chimpanzees.
But researchers have now discovered an HIV infection in a Cameroonian woman which is clearly linked to a gorilla strain, Nature Medicine reports.
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French doctors treating the 62-year-old Cameroonian woman who was living in Paris said they initially spotted some discrepancies in routine viral load tests.
Further analysis of the HIV strain she was infected with showed it was more closely related to SIV from gorillas than HIV from humans.
She is the only person known to be infected with the new strain but the researchers expect to find other cases.
Before moving to Paris, she had lived in a semi-urban area of Cameroon and had no contact with gorillas or bush meat, suggesting she caught the virus from someone else who was carrying the gorilla strain.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8175379.stm
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08-03-2009, 04:31 PM
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#162
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Kalispell, Montana
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Bad week for primates.
Chimpanzees thought to be original source of malaria.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/08/03...ins/index.html
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08-19-2009, 02:39 PM
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#163
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God of Hating Twitter
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08-22-2009, 01:25 AM
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#164
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God of Hating Twitter
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Again to showcase the best Astrophysics blog out there, but another awesome topic that everyone interested in the Big Bang (everyone) should fully read.
http://scienceblogs.com/startswithab..._the_big_b.php
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09-16-2009, 12:57 PM
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#168
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First Line Centre
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Originally Posted by Thor
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Holy Fata!! Now I will have nightmares for a month! Aliens 4?
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09-16-2009, 01:14 PM
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#169
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Basement Chicken Choker
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: In a land without pants, or war, or want. But mostly we care about the pants.
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That fish parasite has to be the nastiest thing I think I have ever seen - look at the way it's just hunched there like it's about to leap onto your face and push its way into your mouth to EAT YOUR DELICIOUS FRICKIN' TONGUE! MMMMPTTTHHH ARGGGGGH!
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09-16-2009, 01:20 PM
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#170
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: not lurking
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I'm not going to be able to open up this thread again until it reaches a new page. That's just f'ed up.
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09-16-2009, 01:24 PM
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#171
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First Line Centre
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I, for one, don't want anything to do with tongue eating overlords.
Nasty.
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09-16-2009, 01:26 PM
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#172
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Norm!
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I was watching a special on National Geographic by a doctor who's an adventure junky. He actually willingly swallowed a tap worm cyst so that he could get infected by it, and he sat in a leech pond as well.
The other special that was on last night rated the 10 most dangerous animals in Australia.
the winner was the funnel web spider
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09-16-2009, 01:27 PM
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#173
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Norm!
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Originally Posted by Thor
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Honestly, that looks like someone painted over an old loafer and jammed a mouse inside of it.
Someone's running out of research dollars.
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09-16-2009, 02:18 PM
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#174
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Calgary
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1 post closer to making that parasite disappear....
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09-16-2009, 02:29 PM
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#176
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Not the one...
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Originally Posted by hulkrogan
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Don't just post / quote this in the hopes that it will be the 1st of page 10.
That's just rude.
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09-16-2009, 03:53 PM
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#177
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The new goggles also do nothing.
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary
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Stop quoting it or I will close the thread.
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09-16-2009, 04:20 PM
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#178
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My face is a bum!
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Originally Posted by photon
Stop quoting it or I will close the thread.
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What now?
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09-16-2009, 04:21 PM
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#179
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Not the one...
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Originally Posted by photon
Stop quoting it or I will close the thread.
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How do you know if we're quoting it or if we're finding the picture and posting it?
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09-16-2009, 04:39 PM
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#180
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hulkrogan
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