Slashdot Mirror
The Amoeba That Eats Human Intestines, Cell By Cell
sciencehabit (1205606) writes "Entamoeba histolytica is a tiny pathogen that takes a terrible toll. The single-celled parasite—an amoeba about a tenth the size of a dust mite—infects 50 million people worldwide and kills as many as 100,000 each year. Now, a new report reveals how the microbe does its deadly damage: by eating cells alive, piece by piece. The finding offers a potential target for new drugs to treat E. histolytica infections, and it transforms researchers' understanding of how the parasite works."
So how do you treat it?
This is like the Animal channel bugs that infest you program.
Gently reply
this is that it infects mainly poor and nonwhites. They're fighting hard against the development of drugs to solve this problem.
I was eating but, hey who needs food.
Infects 50 million and kills 100000... I'll take those odds. Better than driving to work for a year.
The ratio of people to cake is too big
100,000 deaths per year over 50 million total infected = 0.2% mortality rate per year. I'd take those odds.
Typical leftist.. you run around making everything about the three traits you claim don't matter: race, sex, and orientation.
This is unique? How else do microbes make a living? Amway sales?
Table-ized A.I.
He isn't a leftist, he's a troll.
SJWs are the new boogeyman. -Me
how absurd.
the poor and 'non whites' are the ones who mow the lawns, clean the houses, cook their food, change their oil, etc.
they NEED a sub-class around to SERVE them. the sub-class dying out is a nightmare to the ultra rich.
--
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
i wonder what it would be like to wear a human scrotum on my head, each testicle slightly over each eye brow and jogging around so they flat around.
i wonder if they would get sweaty.
i wonder how it would smell.
This amoeba or that brain-eating amoeba.
Ah, perfect - now I have an answer for that annoying question people sometimes ask me:
What's eating you?
E. histolytica!
What this world is coming to - is for you and me to decide.
Are you sure this is not my EX doing this?
Boiler can achieve automatic temperature control & pressure control & feed water control & feed fuel control & safety indication.For more info view http://www.pelletboiler.com OR email: info@bidragon.com
Malaria and dengue are on the rise again. Humans have created so many opportunities in their own landfills and housing (a single old car tire is enough) that these mosquitoes dont go away if you drain a swamp. We are also rather good at helping these animals spread, since every continent not Antarctica now has both species carrying the disease roaming in the wild because we let them ride along with our goods. As far as killing them goes, they have proven to be able to mutate such that common `environmentally friendly pesticides no longer work and we have to resort to really nasty stuff to sufficiently kill an outbreak. So, statistically, you dont treat malaria or dengue but you try to avoid it, contain the spread and fight the symptoms if you happen to get ill from it.
I was promised a flying car. Where is my flying car?
says infectious disease specialist William Petri ...
Excuse me Petri pass be the petri.
When he was younger was he a bit of a dish?
Is he a relation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Richard_Petri ?
In other words the parasite equivalent of Taco Bell.
H1Z1 - may be better than DayZ! from SOE - F2P
http://slashdot.org/firehose.p...
Note: I am not the author of the following quote, this is a copy/paste.
http://www.reddit.com/r/h1z1
http://www.reddit.com/r/h1z1/c...
"Hi there,
I wanted to tell you about an exciting new free-to-play game we've had under wraps here at SOE for some time. It's called H1Z1. It's a massively multiplayer game in which players fight for survival in a world where death is the only sure thing. The H1Z1 virus devastated mankind and left nothing but death and destruction in its wake and a world nearly empty of human life where the remnants of humanity are in a fight against extinction against those infected with the virus. It's been 15 years since H1Z1 was first encountered and what's left of the world before is overrun with the Infected. Humanity has been reduced to hiding in the shadows, searching desperately for food and water and anything that can help to survive even for another day. But the Infected aren't the only dangers in the world. Everyday life in the Apocalypse means dealing with all kinds of wild animals and the brutality of other survivors, as well as finding your next meal and a safe place to sleep. It also means scavenging or crafting anything that can help you live just one more day. In H1Z1 every minute of every day is borrowed time and fearing for your life.unless you are the Danger (talking to you Walter), but life can and will go on.even in circumstances as dire as this. Humanity has not given in to the Infected. There are still pockets of humanity and the fight goes on!
Our vision for this game is very simple but ambitious. We are starting with what I would call "Middle America" - an "anywhere and everywhere" town. The world is massive as you've come to expect from our games. Over time we will grow the world until we have our own version of the U.S. after the death and destruction brought on during the H1Z1 epidemic. It will be our own version of America. We'll have urban cities and desolate wide open places. All connected seamlessly. Our focus is building a sandbox style of gameplay where players can build shelters out of resources in the world. They can even work together to make amazing fortresses complete with weaponry to help defend against both the Infected and other players. Players also have access to a very deep crafting system that can let players make a huge variety of awesome stuff, including weapons (I made a 1911 the other day) and things like Molotov cocktails, explosives.. and other fun surprises.
I will also go right to the heart of the question a lot of players will have - "There are a lot of survival / Zombie games.how is this one going to be any different?". First off, it's a persistent MMO that can hold thousands of players on servers we host (yes there will be multiple servers with very different rule sets). Why is that a good thing? It means a thriving economy (oh yes.there's trading). It also means you have potential allies in the all-out war on the Infected... and many an enemy as well. It uses our proprietary next-gen Forgelight engine and that means we've had a lot of really cool technology to work with to make the game we wanted to make. It's also designed from the ground up for our players to become part of the design process. The Roadmap system that we built for PlanetSide 2 will be used extensively to clearly communicate what features we're working on and what you can expect and when. You're also going to be getting awesome access to our developers. We'll be opening it up for Player Studio creations too so expect player-created items to make their way into the game. The main thing that differentiates H1Z1 from the other great games in the genre is the emphasis we are putting on player ownership and building. We want you to be able to form roving
Besides, how can you know you are rich if you don't have some poor people for comparison?
Why is there never a parasite that eats unwanted fat and sugars then poops useful enzymes and vitamins into it's host's body?
*It's not what you can do for the Dark Side but what the Dark Side can do for you!*
...after all, we eat it, and millions of other life forms.
In fact, humans aren't a basic life-form at all. Each one is a collection of millions of smaller life-forms which have banded together to improve their collective chances. Inside us, there are lots of cells being 'eaten alive', regenerated, dying and being re-absorbed, you name it.
A description of our normal digestive processes would seem appalling to a plant. After all, we tear their living cells apart and plunge them into a bath of acid and chemicals to disintegrate them....
Some human strains may have adapted to this and need it to be healthy.
We already have a similar adaption to worm parasites and without a worm infection those people suffer until they get one.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
You nuts? If all the serfs die out, you'd have to WORK again!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Did they manage to infect Madagascar and Greenland?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
...that you haven't been in a multiple pile-up, had part of a car body slice through your stomach, both legs broken and your skull fractured.
The point of the OP is that that is MORE likely to happen to you than death from dysentery....
Entamoeba histolytica!
THere is, but it's not called a parasite. Parasites are creatures that harm their host. What you are looking for are mutualistic bacteria.
Often, the tests for intestinal parasites (usually from a series of stool samples) don't actually work. While false positives are rare, false negatives are quite common.
Given that cancer is usually an actual tumor (or, at the least, something that is blindingly obvious on a microscope slide), the odds of getting treated for cancer when you really had a parasite is pretty much zero.
And likewise, the flu has pretty distinctive symptoms (and a somewhat reliable test) that you are unlikely to be treated for influenza but be suffering from a parasite.
A mandatory test for any given parasite would be a fantastically expensive waste of money for relatively little benefit. And of course there are a crazy number of parasites it's possible to infect a human with; which ones do you test for?
Maybe they can modify it to only eat stomach cancer.