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Cold Sore Virus May Be Alzheimer's Smoking Gun
Science Daily is reporting that the virus behind cold sores has been found to be a major cause of the insoluble protein plaques found in the brains of Alzheimer's disease sufferers. Researchers believe the herpes simplex virus is a significant factor in developing the debilitating disease and could be treated by antiviral agents such as acyclovir, which is already used to treat cold sores and other diseases caused by the herpes virus. Another future possibility is vaccination against the virus to prevent the development of Alzheimer's in the first place. The research was just published in the Journal of Pathology (abstract).
I just lost my train of thought.
Man my mouth hurts but I don't remember why.
in a few weeks, poor innocent little children will get visits from aunt bertha and grandma marge, and the first thing the strange smelly relatives will do is find the innocent children, exclaim "my how you've grown!" or "aren't you the cutest thing, i could eat you up!" and, approaching the children, who will now be rapt in horror, they will proceed to plant wet sloppy kisses, over the protestations and gyrations of the children sturggling to break free of the bear arm grip
and, the kids are right to object. they are trying to avoid herpes and alzheimers
kisses from old relatives is a brain mummifying disease
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
I don't remember :-(
Can one be tested for the herpes simplex virus? I never had an outbreak, but one winter when I was cyclilng in -17C (stupid, yeah, gimme a break, I love cycling) I got a cold sore on the tip of my nose. So now I would like to be able to dismiss the idea I have herpes simplex. But if I have it, I'd like to start a therapy ASAP - I don't want to get Alzheimer's.
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
Nastiest Alzheimer's joke ever:
Guy brings his wife to the doctor. Doctor tells him "We screwed up the lab results. She either has AIDS or Alzheimers."
Guy says "great, what should I do?"
Doctor says "Drop her off about a mile away from home. If she finds her way home, don't fuck her!"
did "uncle" gary ask you to suck his meat popsicle, by any chance?
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
This is excellent news for most slashdotters since the herpes 'cold-sore' virus is typically transmitted by kissing.
There's something about jokes that require improbable/impossible setups that just makes them not worth the effort...
No wonder the hooker never remembers me.
What you said reminds me of when I told a friend a stupid joke. He responded by saying, "It sounds like someone just made that up."
No it's true, really. Happened to a friend of a friend of mine. His wife never made it home apparently.
Not to HER home.
She's happier now, at least for a few minutes at a time.
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ECHELON is a government program to find words like bomb, jihad, plutonium, assassinate, and anarchy.
But House only does it with four!
The placenta develops for a reason.
To reduce the risk of overpopulation by encouraging men never to have sex ever ever again?
It's not Lupus.
æeee!
If homeopathy works, then my distilled water is more powerful than any of their concoctions!
æeee!
Apologii
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Are you crazy? You could die or be seriously disabled by imbibing something that potent.
So we've found Hollywood's target demographic?
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
Don't forget Herpes Simplex 10, which is what Eddie Murphy's character 'Ramon' had in Beverly Hills Cop: [from imdb.com]:
"Tell Victor that Ramon - -the fella he met about a week ago? - -tell him that Ramon went to the clinic today, and I found out that I have, um, herpes simplex 10, and I think Victor should go check himself out with his physician to make sure everything is fine before things start falling off on the man."
Tiller's Rule: Never use a word in written form that you've only heard and never read. You will end up looking foolish.