“Back in my day, we just let the raccoons eat ‘em.”

It was recently discovered that blood taken from four Vietnamese bird flu survivors were able to be used as anti-bodies in mice for the avian disease. The anti-bodies may have an impacting effect on the H5N1 bird flu that is quickly becoming a pandemic. Dr Cameron Simmons, of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam had this to say:

We have shown that this technique can work to prevent and neutralise infection by the H5N1 bird flu virus in mice.

Many doctors (Dr. Simmons as well) don’t advocate sleeping with excessive Vietnamese people (or lab mice) to help obtain the antibodies.

Served up: fresh.