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Clothes That Kill
StriderA writes "Robert Engel, of Queens College at The City University of New York, and colleagues have developed a new defence against bacteria and fungi. It seems that they have created tiny molecular daggers that actually seek and destroy the fatty bacteria. Applications to include battling athletes foot to military uniforms that kill anthrax."
such random failures as gouging of the eyeballs, slicing of the seminal vesicles, and puncturing of the lungs. Yes, the scientists were quoted as saying they havn't quite got all the kinks out.
this is not a sig.
The article said that the "daggers" work the same way as free-floating detergent. I assumed this meant the broken or dislodged "daggers" were no more toxic than regular detergent residue.
How many washing does it take to dislodge enough of these daggers that they don't keep your clothes free of fatty microbes?
SARS is a virus, antibiotics wouldn't effect it anyways, and overuse of antibiotics isn't responsible for it.
ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI