'Iceman' (Oetzi) Might Be Contaminated

MSNBC ^ | 6-14-2005

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A researcher inspects the 5,000-year-old mummy known as Oetzi in this file photo from 2000. Oetzi is kept in a sealed-off chamber which researchers now worry may have been penetrated.

Updated: 10:02 p.m. ET June 13, 2005ROME - Researchers suspect the corpse of a 5,000-year-old mummy frozen in the Italian Alps might have been contaminated by bacteria since its discovery in 1991, a doctor who cares for the body said Monday.

[RightWhale]

Have the results of brainscan testing showed negative activity? Being braindead isn't the sole criterion of death anymore, of course, but if he is terminal anyway, why go to the expense of medical care with the $EU and the Airbus getting into such dire straits?

[ken21]

why don't they radiate him?

[AdmSmith]

why don't they radiate him?

Because they do not want to destroy the DNA for future investigations. Today we just need some 15 -20 cells, in a few years time we just need around 5.

[fso301]

a 5,000-year-old mummy frozen in the Italian Alps might have been contaminated by bacteria

Maybe a doctor needs to see him.

[Finger Monkey]

It's Bush's fault.

[dfwgator]

He's looked better.

[Dad yer funny]

there just worried 'cause he's the stunt-double for Super Dave

[tet68]

a 5,000-year-old mummy frozen in the Italian Alps might have been contaminated by compassionate conservativism,
say anxious liberals, "It must be destroyed to stop the
contagion before it spreads to the lower classes."

[Finger Monkey]

hee hee hee hee hee hee hee

[GreenHornet]

No wonder he's just been lying around listless day in, day out.

[mass55th]

"Pinin' for the fjords."

I'm not quite dead yet!!

[Ciexyz]

And the most interesting fact about Oetzi: he's missing his male organ. It fell off in transit.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Melting Glaciers Reveal Ancient Bodies

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"Melting Glaciers Reveal Ancient Bodies"

Good article, thanks. I'm waiting for the next discovery.

[ApplegateRanch]

And the most interesting fact about Oetzi: he's missing his male organ. It fell off in transit.

Not surprising. The way he was marauding through the Alps, picking fights, he must have always been going off half cocked.

[SunkenCiv]

Good idea probably. Worth looking into. I can't believe it would harm the body or inhibit study of the remains. Of course, Oetzi would have to be sealed in a container, then irradiated, then left alone. That would probably inhibit study. ;') I seem to recall that, when the body was found, some souvenir hound tried to pull off the fur coat, which damaged the body.

[SunkenCiv]

That's the story, and the pervs who found the body are stickin' with it. ;')

[SunkenCiv]

[rimshot!]

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Have they found his spouse yet?

You know, Betsy Oetzi?