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   From: seanc130@hotmail.com   
      
   "Hunter"  wrote   
   > "Sean Carroll"  wrote:   
      
   >> Yeah, that was a definite highlight. That, and the scene where he blinds   
   >> Scully, but the day is saved at the last moment when Mulder takes the   
   >> pins   
   >> out of her voodoo doll (I *think* that's what happened -- I need to   
   >> rewatch,   
   >> it's been a while).   
      
   > It wasn't expicitly shown. The scene went from him finding the doll   
   > with the pins back into the house with Scully still trying to find her   
   > gun. She eventually shoots Orel and when Mulder busts into the house   
   > holding the doll sans pins, her eyes have returned to their normal   
   > appearance.   
      
   Ah, yes, I think I can vaguely remember that.   
      
   One of these days soon I've gotta go back and start rewatching S6-9   
   episodes, to study them and become familiar with the details, like I am with   
   most of seasons 1 through 5. It's been a long time since I watched *any* XF   
   at all, actually. I've been having a desire to start doing that germinating   
   for a while. It will probably bloom soon.   
      
   >> Technically, the disease in 'Our Town' was Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease   
   >> (CJD),   
   >> not kuru. The two conditions are closely related, but not identical. They   
   >> are both transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), caused by   
   >> prions.   
   >> Other TSEs in humans include Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome   
   >> (GSS)   
   >> and fatal familial insomnia (FFI), as well as something called   
   >> 'new-variant'   
   >> Creutzfeld-Jakob (vCJD or nvCJD). All five of these conditions exhibit   
   >> similar symptoms, but each of them is caused by a different prion. CJD is   
   >> the most common.   
      
   > But would Scully have been able to tell the difference with the   
   > physical examination of the brain tissue to definitively identify it   
   > as kuru?   
      
   How the hell should I know? Wikipedia doesn't really cover that.   
      
   >> When I gave blood to the Red Cross a few months ago, they said on the   
   >> paper   
   >> that they tested all the samples for CJD. I said to the nurse, 'Bet you   
   >> don't get a lot of positive results for THAT, do you?'   
      
   > And what did she have to say to that?   
      
   Uh ...I dunno. I imagine it was something along the lines of 'nope, we sure   
   don't'.   
      
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