XPost: sci.physics.relativity, sci.math   
   From: physfitfreak@gmail.com   
      
   On 4/13/25 11:08 PM, Physfitfreak wrote:   
   > 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.   
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   > Perhaps your "great uncle" cleaned the floor of the center that one of   
   > these researchers was working it, who knows :)   
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   Oh Ok I see. You were talking about a cure, not the discoveries   
   involved. Yes some Indian found a way to cure the patients. But what   
   stopped kala-azar from killing people in large masses was the discovery   
   of how it works and therefore preventing the growth and spread of that fly.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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