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2008-01-25 Science & Technology

Flu Panic Rises In India As Hundred Of Goats Drop Dead

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Posted by Anonymoose 2008-01-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Not good. Goats have a notoriously strong immune system.

Natural selection, so do Camels.

Posted by Thomas Woof 2008-01-25 07:19|| http://www.cybernations.net]">[http://www.cybernations.net] 2008-01-25 07:19|| Front Page Top

#2 I wish I could find some classification of immune system structures among mammals. That is, the broad similarities and differences that exist among immune systems between different mammalian species.

For example, canine and feline immune systems are very different (yet both are attacked by Avian Flu, which is truly scary); but human, pig, and ferret immune systems are very similar. In fact, ferrets are seen as the "canary in a coal mine" for human diseases, because we share so many.

Anybodies guess why this is so, though.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-01-25 08:42|| 2008-01-25 08:42|| Front Page Top

#3 "canary in a coal mine"

I wish I could find some classification of immune system structures among mammals

First, find contact frequency with other members of its own specie.

Second, determine the Zinc load coefficient that each mammal carries.

Last, and then multiply the exposures times the majic ceramic balls in each gizzard and you gottum your immune system structures Mooses.

/~:)

Posted by RD">RD 2008-01-25 14:13|| 2008-01-25 14:13|| Front Page Top

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