Join Tom and Scott as they discuss this: Toxoplasmosis, a common food- and pet-borne illness linked to hallucinations, personality alteration, and, since it’s often carried by house pets, the stereotype of the crazy cat lady, infects around 15 percent of the US population.
Luckily, a new technique that traps the parasite with gold nanoparticles, and then zaps them with lasers, should help ease the $7.7 billion the disease costs America every year.
And, we get a great reader submission from Dave K. and his Apple IIe.
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Re: Gold for treatmet
Feel thankful you’ve never known the pain of arthritis. The doctors inject gold into the joint to fill in ends of the bones. Gold in neutral in the body, can be easily shaped, etc… (Is it geeky that I know this?)
Ray W,
Chicago, IL