Interesting...

[tesco]

Intaresting, could you have him explain that further?

Sexist.


Funny thing is I has assumed it was a burd. Which is just as sexist really but in a better way.

i assumed woman too.
Because of the word 'virologist'...it reminds me of veterinarian ('cause starts with same letter, obviousement) and that reminds me of the vet we took my dog too once and she was female.

[JPaul]

I think your pal's making it up.

Either that or she doesn't really exist and you're making this up yourself. Anthropomorphising white blood cells.

Pus is called pus because it's dead white corpuscles. Fact.

[Snee]

Ok, I asked her today about the whole sheeps blood tihngs.

Apparently you only make antibodies immediately against anything your body has previously encountered.
So that's why you get diseases like measles etc.. only once.
So, if you mix healthy blood with sheeps blood it won't do anything. However, if you have glandular fever, for some reason you start producing these antibodies against sheeps blood and the blood clots.

There you have it.

As for the body not reacting against foreign organisms, it's the same prinicple.
If your body isn't sure if it's bad or good for you, it'll do nothing until it's sure.
Sometimes, if the virus/bacteria/whatever it is mutates rather quickly, the body won't do anything at all against it because it can't identify what exactly it is fighting against.



Next interesting fact:
Lyme disease has initally the same symptoms as syphillis.

Thanks for that. Thank your friend as well.


I think I used to know that (I bloody well should have had a hunch since I actually studied medicine and biology for a bit )

Is it only sheep's blood, btw? Or is the same with, say, blood from a dog?

I'm wondering if whatever cause glandular fever shares some common element with sheep's blood then, like a protein, an enzyme, an organelle, or whatever.

[JPaul]

The real question is, how the fuck did they find this out.

Whatever, I'm taking it as proof positive of the existence of God

[Skweeky]

Snny, apparently it only works with sheeps blood. That's why it's so weird



@ JP: I didn't know you were an amateur virologist

[JPaul]

You thought me a professional.

[Gripper]

Are you Bodie or Doyle?

[JPaul]

No

[Gripper]

That means you're Cowley