Posted on 02/13/2011 2:39:33 PM PST by decimon
Later.
“An ancient disease that sounds like gonorrhea is described in the Bible, noted Seifert, who has studied the disease for 28 years.”
I guess we need dedicated people in the world like Seifert here, but, Man...what a life - studying the clap.
Clap, clap, clap,
they call him the clapper
The perfect Valentine's Day gift.
So, which came first in the evolutionary scheme?
The human or the clap virus?
Terrific! This news REALLY makes me want to get right out there and date again, LOL!
On the other hand, my documented clean bill of health will definitely be a HUGE bargaining chip when I’m ‘Husband Hunting’ again in the future.
*BIG SMILE*
Sounds like time for a major rewrite of evolutionary theory.
It is known that the human genome has integrated the entire RNA of some viruses, over the course of a vast amount of time. However, if a bacteria can get DNA from us, it could leap frog millions of years of ordinary evolution.
You mean like the way AIDs has slowed down the gay "free love" culture. Oh,wait.
It would be nice to think that people would start to wise up; but, I think they would just whine a lot and insist somebody come up with a cure.
They'll be so happy they're already getting their own internet jargon!
They don’t know, yet. Give them time to research it.
This may give medical researchers a new chance at a cure for the disease, one not involving antibiotics.
Turns out he infected it.
REAL scientists won’t go there unless they have proof. These guys do not seem like the climate prediction loonies.
“You mean like the way AIDs has slowed down the gay “free love” culture. Oh,wait.”
It did, a bit, around 1990. Then they found enough drugs to let them survive and they came back with a vengeance.
The human immune system is already pretty amazing.
Shuffling DNA around to come up with a structure that binds to just about every possible 3-D molecular shape? WOW!
Nobody supposes it alters the DNA of a bacteria; but if you have any evidence of it, I am all ears! Meanwhile there are many mechanisms bacteria have to acquire DNA for foreign sources and put them to use.
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Getting inside a cell and changing DNA is what a virus is good at. Our immune system doesn't produce viral structures.
Attaching antibodies (those 3-D shapes) to pathogens and using pyrogens and killer cells - THAT the immune system does.
Introducing DNA changes to the pathogens that prey upon you is an ineffective method, because you cannot ‘get’ them all at once, and the more detrimental the disadvantage, the more those unaffected will dominate subsequent generations.
So even if the immune system...
a) created viral like particles that could enter the bacterial cell and introduce new DNA.
b) the new DNA was to the disadvantage of the bacteria.
Then.....
c) the bacteria with the disadvantage would be out-competed by those without it.
So...at last, gonorrhea caught us!
BOLO the audience clapping gif...
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