The TCM people will be out of starfishes to concoct their 'medicines' with, in addition.
wasn't this posted a while back? maybe it was sponges the other time, I vaguely remember something like this
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[quote]sea star [B]wasting syndrome[/B][/quote]
holy shit OP should have included trigger warning
I fear that this may be a prionic disease, even though that's a bit unlikely given the circumstances, but holy shit prions are like my worst fear in the world
[QUOTE=BFG9000;43746070]wasn't this posted a while back? maybe it was sponges the other time, I vaguely remember something like this
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holy shit OP should have included trigger warning
I fear that this may be a prionic disease, even though that's a bit unlikely given the circumstances, but holy shit prions are like my worst fear in the world[/QUOTE]
Truth be told, prion diseases only get usually triggered by the consumption of neural material. Don't eat brains and you should be just fine.
[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;43746094]Truth be told, prion diseases only get usually triggered by the consumption of neural material. Don't eat brains and you should be just fine.[/QUOTE]
but these are starfish
what if it works differently
what if it's waterbourne?!?!?!?!?!
And Chronic Wasting Disease is spread by saliva and excrement in addition to neural material, what makes you think that's the only way?
And did you know that AMR, or Advanced Meat Recovery, works by hammering the cow's head? This potentially launches some brain matter into the meat itself. I may be infected this very moment and not even know it until 30 years later!!!!!
hm, I never did learn about CWD in my 4 years of study, I guess I'll look into it and get back to you on the topic. I don't think they've mentioned it in my text or reference books at all, unless it was something very specific.
[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;43746126]hm, I never did learn about CWD in my 4 years of study, I guess I'll look into it and get back to you on the topic. I don't think they've mentioned it in my text or reference books at all, unless it was something very specific.[/QUOTE]
The main endemic area is as pictured:
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Chronic_Wasting_Disease_Map_September_2012_in_North_America.jpg[/t]
I'm fucking scared man, there's absolutely no reliable way to destroy a prion besides firing it in to the fucking sun, and by the looks of it CWD is spreading
All I know at this point is if I ever go to Europe, to stay the fuck away from hamburgers
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And consider that water works very differently from land, imagine how fast a prionic disease might spread via water
[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;43746126]hm, I never did learn about CWD in my 4 years of study, I guess I'll look into it and get back to you on the topic. I don't think they've mentioned it in my text or reference books at all, unless it was something very specific.[/QUOTE]Wikipedia says it's a form of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, if that's more familiar to you.
[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;43746171]Wikipedia says it's a form of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, if that's more familiar to you.[/QUOTE]
It's basically the deer version of Mad Cow / Scrapie / JKD
[QUOTE=MatheusMCardoso;43745621][img]http://s3.amazonaws.com/rapgenius/1318713954_1267041100990.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
the lid
THE LID
Blueh... watching the part where the arm just casually WALKS AWAY from the body until it ripps off is fucking creepy.
Someone should show this stuff to Junji Ito.
[QUOTE=booster;43743649]The madness strikes them first.[/QUOTE]
God that just reminded me of that Cthulu Dark corners of the Earth Ego Shooter game thing.
[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;43746126]hm, I never did learn about CWD in my 4 years of study, I guess I'll look into it and get back to you on the topic. I don't think they've mentioned it in my text or reference books at all, unless it was something very specific.[/QUOTE]
I'm not a med-student, so take what I say with a sack of salt, but near as I can tell, it's caused by a defective genetic sequence that gets integrated into the victims cells and produces proteins that slowly eat away at the victim's brain tissues. No real way to remove it, no real way to repair the damage.
If I ever get infected with this stuff, just put a bullet in me and be done with it.
[QUOTE=Psychokitten;43749653]I'm not a med-student, so take what I say with a sack of salt, but near as I can tell, it's caused by a defective genetic sequence that gets integrated into the victims cells and produces proteins that slowly eat away at the victim's brain tissues. No real way to remove it, no real way to repair the damage.
If I ever get infected with this stuff, just put a bullet in me and be done with it.[/QUOTE]Eh, not quite. Prions are afaik defective proteins that cause functioning proteins of the same amino acid configuration (but folded properly) to assume the same defective configuration.
No genetic mutation needed for the disease to hit you, though maybe that's where the defective proteins originated from in the first place; nobody quite knows for sure. Or more specifically, I don't know for sure; i'm just a lab technician student (probably closest English equivalent, Wikipedia has no article for the direct translation of laborantti), not a doctor :v:
Imagine a cardboard box that's been wrongly assembled that, upon contact, causes other cardboard boxes of the same kind to take on the same misfolded shape. Then all your shit falls out of them when you try to pack them.
[QUOTE=BFG9000;43746138]The main endemic area is as pictured:
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Chronic_Wasting_Disease_Map_September_2012_in_North_America.jpg[/t]
I'm fucking scared man, there's absolutely no reliable way to destroy a prion besides firing it in to the fucking sun, and by the looks of it CWD is spreading
All I know at this point is if I ever go to Europe, to stay the fuck away from hamburgers
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And consider that water works very differently from land, imagine how fast a prionic disease might spread via water[/QUOTE]
I was under the impression CWD is not transmissible to humans. You do have a chance of infection from BSE which results in a variant of kreuzfelds jacobs.
[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;43749790]Eh, not quite. Prions are afaik defective proteins that cause functioning proteins of the same amino acid configuration (but folded properly) to assume the same defective configuration.
No genetic mutation needed for the disease to hit you, though maybe that's where the defective proteins originated from in the first place; nobody quite knows for sure. Or more specifically, I don't know for sure; i'm just a lab technician student (probably closest English equivalent, Wikipedia has no article for the direct translation of laborantti), not a doctor :v:
Imagine a cardboard box that's been wrongly assembled that, upon contact, causes other cardboard boxes of the same kind to take on the same misfolded shape. Then all your shit falls out of them when you try to pack them.[/QUOTE]
Well, I'm a college LEJA-major with a Biology-101 class under my belt, so I'd say your explanation is more correct.
-snip- accidentally posted.
[QUOTE=wraithcat;43749813]I was under the impression CWD is not transmissible to humans. You do have a chance of infection from BSE which results in a variant of kreuzfelds jacobs.[/QUOTE]
Hunters are strongly urged to avoid consuming tissue in or near the head or spine, just as a precaution.
This is also appropriate
[img]http://www.shirtrater.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/35805_fc,550x550,white.jpg[/img]
I find it funny how I saw this thread and thought to myself, "this is probably about seastar wasting syndrome; I know a lot of people at my uni have been doing research ino this."
Then I read the article to find that its people from my uni talking about it. :v:.
It's a pretty serious issue, though. Findings and progress have been constantly posted about it in our school paper, and the researchers are pretty concerned about how widespread and rampant it is.
Things aren't looking good for the seastars of the West Coast, as things stand right now.
[QUOTE=Forumaster;43742645]Forgive the format, but it's a video in the source:
[url]http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/mysterious-epidemic-devastates-starfish-population-pacific-coast/[/url][/QUOTE]
Remind me alot of when billions of birds began dropping from the sky for an entire year.
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