You married a mad cow?

@Zster
Yip, a two legged one. Thank goodness that is in the past !

At some stage I read a story about students eating their teacher. So I warned my students about CJD: "DO NOT eat my brain". I head read a few articles about the cases in PNG.I always forget the name Kuru???

@PontifexMarximus Yep, Kuru was/is another familial prion disease, it originated in the eastern highlands of PNG where the women of the Fore people would eat the bodies of deceased relatives.. Residents of the Purosa Valley developed a variation in prion protein gene G127V. I haven't has time to play with that one yet. I have been somewhat obsessed with CMV and E.coli. Cmv because I had a win with it, and E.coli because I feel that is a threat we are overlooking and it is so very close to becoming resistant to all known antibiotics. One more change in one gene and it is done.The St131 strain is so almost there.

@Rugglesby Perhpas you should start playing with phages ...

@PontifexMarximus Funny you should mention them, that is what I am working towards. Bacteriophages should be really useful when working on gram negative bacteria. I only work with computer simulations and come up with the wildest ideas.This is only a hobby/game for me usually, but occasionally I come across someone in the real world who has a real issue where all options have been tried. I believe sooner or later we will be hit hard by a pandemic. I m not looking for a cure for it, that will only delay things until the next one. I am just playing educated guesses as to where it will originate.

@Rugglesby even as a play it could be very interesting. Actually the father of microbiology, Felix d'Hearelle, could never see what he was working with because there were no modern electron microscopes.

And you are still alive

The human equivalent is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

@PontifexMarximus yes but even worse it was still humans who did this.

I thought Breast Self exam