XPost: sci.physics.relativity, sci.math   
   From: physfitfreak@gmail.com   
      
   On 4/13/25 10:49 PM, Physfitfreak wrote:   
   > On 4/13/25 10:04 PM, Bertitaylor wrote:   
   >> On Mon, 14 Apr 2025 2:40:25 +0000, Physfitfreak wrote:   
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   >> Better yet contract kala-azar and   
   >>> just die :) I want my space in my fridge.   
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   >> My great uncle found the cure for that disease, saved many millions of   
   >> lives.   
   >> A great inspiration for me, Roachie.   
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   > Pure bullshit. The name of the discoverers of the parasite is still part   
   > of its scientific name (Leishmania donovani). I read a book in the 1990s   
   > about the discovery also; a detailed account of the unbelievable   
   > struggle that led to its discovery, and yes, millions were saved after   
   > that.   
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   > One was British, the other Irish. Years apart.   
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   The hardest part, according to that book, was to find the life cycle of   
   the parasite. The mechanism of transmission. It was like starting from   
   having absolutely no clue, and by funky tries, trying to zero in on it.   
   It took a long long time and many many mistakes and misconceptions and   
   misinterpretation of data to at last land on what was the real culprit.   
   That little fly, a form of sand fly. The parasite would clog up its   
   needle-like mouth, and then when eating someone else's blood would   
   transmit some of the parasites into the new patient. And this repeated   
   on all other humans that the fly fed on. They generally all died not   
   that long after. Hundreds of thousands of them at a time.   
      
   Perhaps your "great uncle" cleaned the floor of the center that one of   
   these researchers was working it, who knows :)   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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