Home |
Search |
Today's Posts |
#11
|
|||
|
|||
Compost Heap. Horse Manure. Pathogens.
As I teach my students "a scientist who is speaking outside his area of expertise is
no better than a layman". MCD is in my area of expertise, and MCD lacked several characteristics necessary to become a pandemic. People tend to think of viruses and bacteria as static or "simple". But microbes spent most of evolution, some 3.5 billion years evolving those genes that survive to this day, those same genes with which all higher life forms are built. Because bacteria and viruses have a single genome (and many viruses are RNA viruses anyway) they mutate at extremely high rates. For this reason there are always small numbers of them that are on the "cutting edge" of infectivity if not ahead of host immunity. They are inherently unstable. MCD is an infectious protein (prion). It does not rapidly mutate and transmission is difficult within species and very difficult outside of species. It is called other names in other animals and the only place it is rampant is in mink because after taking the fur the body of the mink is processed into food for growing mink. The only place it USED to be rampant was in those small populations of humans who ate the brains of family members for ritual reasons. Now that has stopped so has Kuru. Ingrid On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:47:29 +0100, "Jeff Layman" wrote: I suggest you go back and read some of the "scientific" comments made at the time. I had access to all the main medical and general (such as "Nature") journals at the time (1996) and could not believe what I was reading in them. I was ashamed to be called a scientist. The term "junk science" appeared a dozen of so years earlier, and many of the comments were junk science in spades. Somewhere between zone 5 and 6 tucked along the shore of Lake Michigan on the council grounds of the Fox, Mascouten, Potawatomi, and Winnebago |
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Forum | |||
How can you re-use compost if you don't have a compost heap? | Gardening | |||
Horse manure mixed with multiple purpose compost? | Gardening | |||
Compost Heap. Horse Manure. Pathogens. | Gardening | |||
Compost Heap. Horse Manure. Pathogens. | Edible Gardening | |||
Compost and horse manure | Gardening |