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From: Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity,sci.physics,sci.math
Subject: Re: Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2025 23:27:33 -0500
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On 4/13/25 11:08 PM, Physfitfreak wrote:
> On 4/13/25 10:49 PM, Physfitfreak wrote:
>> On 4/13/25 10:04 PM, Bertitaylor wrote:
>>> On Mon, 14 Apr 2025 2:40:25 +0000, Physfitfreak wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Better yet contract kala-azar and
>>>> just die :) I want my space in my fridge.
>>>
>>> My great uncle found the cure for that disease, saved many millions of
>>> lives.
>>> A great inspiration for me, Roachie.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Pure bullshit. The name of the discoverers of the parasite is still 
>> part of its scientific name (Leishmania donovani). I read a book in 
>> the 1990s about the discovery also; a detailed account of the 
>> unbelievable struggle that led to its discovery, and yes, millions 
>> were saved after that.
>>
>> One was British, the other Irish. Years apart.
>>
>>
>>
>>
> 
> 
> The hardest part, according to that book, was to find the life cycle of 
> the parasite. The mechanism of transmission. It was like starting from 
> having absolutely no clue, and by funky tries, trying to zero in on it. 
> It took a long long time and many many mistakes and misconceptions and 
> misinterpretation of data to at last land on what was the real culprit. 
> That little fly, a form of sand fly. The parasite would clog up its 
> needle-like mouth, and then when eating someone else's blood would 
> transmit some of the parasites into the new patient. And this repeated 
> on all other humans that the fly fed on. They generally all died not 
> that long after. Hundreds of thousands of them at a time.
> 
> Perhaps your "great uncle" cleaned the floor of the center that one of 
> these researchers was working it, who knows :)
> 
> 


Oh Ok I see. You were talking about a cure, not the discoveries 
involved. Yes some Indian found a way to cure the patients. But what 
stopped kala-azar from killing people in large masses was the discovery 
of how it works and therefore preventing the growth and spread of that fly.