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[Major_Gilbear]

Ummm... the daddy long legs isn't a spider. It has only six legs.

And the spider which I believe you are referring to is the wolf spider, a very common household one (especially in the UK). And actually, they have been known to kill very young babies!

[Cyborg]

I hate spiders/insects in my house :(

I don't mind them being outside my house, though.

[Terror]

i believe hepatitis B was AIDS.

Hepatitis is not aids.

Hepatitis evolved to a new untreatable form ( hepatitis C ) and is spreading real fast all over the world. Even in the USA there were several people who have died of it...

it was on TV for gods sake, it was one of the Triviant questions, one of the hepatitis variants was aids.

[rigel6669]

Surf to the hepatitis information network and find out yourself www.hepnet.com

Hepatitis B is not aids....

[emprworm]

the "daddy long legs" is the deadliest spider in the world... it does not have fangs that are big enough to bite anything though

lol. I'd say that makes the "daddy long legs" quite harmless eh? Besides, I thought I read somewhere that was an urban ledgend anyway. But regardless, the "daddly long legs" is rather harmless.

my definition of deadly: which one would i least want to be in a room with.

[Dunenewt]

Hey have any of you lot seen the coastal Taipan in the wild - i have

[emprworm]

uhhh...the fact that i have not seen a coastal taipan in the wild is a good thing considering they are the #3 deadliest snake in the world with only one documented case of someone surviving a bit w/o treatment. thats over 99% fatality rate.

ya, i'm glad i never saw one of those in the wild.

[Terror]

Surf to the hepatitis information network and find out yourself www.hepnet.com

Hepatitis B is not aids....

well, than it must either be A or C..... or the TV program was wrong

[VigilVirus]

No strain of Hepatitus is AIDS, they are different viruses, but like I said, Hepatitus C commonly infects a host that is suffering from AIDS.

[nemafakei]

Hepatitus is not AIDS, but is common to AIDS sufferers.

[emprworm]

hepatitus = aids? huh? Never heard that one.

[Cyborg]

If I'm right, cold and fever isn't viruses or diseases either(according to discovery ;D). When you have a cold it is your immune system that reacts pretty well. And if you have fever, your body seem to heighten the body temperature to make it worse for bacterias.

This may be why there is no immediate cure for cold :)

[VigilVirus]

Ummm... yeah, like we didn't already know that ::)

You feel cold when your body temperature goes up (which is a fever). It is the third stage of the immune response to almost any serious infection.

[Cyborg]

Ummm... yeah, like we didn't already know that ::)

I just wanted to feel like I was enlighting someone here, which I obviously didn't :)

[slaphapy]

If I'm right, cold and fever isn't viruses or diseases either(according to discovery ;D). When you have a cold it is your immune system that reacts pretty well. And if you have fever, your body seem to heighten the body temperature to make it worse for bacterias.

This may be why there is no immediate cure for cold :)

well if i get what your saying... then u r saying there is no cold virus?

well, there is no single virus that causes the "common cold" but there are several viruses that cause the symptoms of "the cold" -runny nose, congestion, coughing, etc.- most of the viruses that cause these symptoms are rhinoviruses which is a group of viruses that generally attack your nasal areas... and your body makes the symptoms i just listed which are just the effects of your immune system fighting the virus.

when you have a fever, then it is generally called the flu (influenza) the reason the body makes you have a fever is because viruses can not reproduce in a warmer climate, they are generally designed to reproduce in your normal body temperature... in fact if you just have a simple fever.(not anything that can kill you)then sometimes it would be best not to take anything that lowers your body temperature, because if you do then the virus is able to reproduce, making you sicker (interesting huh?)

the reason that there is a "cold season" is because people gather inside when there is cold weather... making it easier for the viruses to spread from host to host.

[slaphapy]

one of my favorite parasites which in my list would be THE MOST inteligent parasite is.... (drumroll) the fluke!!!

there is a certain parasite that is called the fluke... there are several species of them... what they basically do is use a certain host pattern (i suppose that's how it should be described)

what one of them does is it passes back and forth between fish and birds.

it gets into the fish and goes into the brain ... what it does is it somehow controls the fish... it makes the fish turn to a bright orange or red or some color that stands out... then it tells the fish to swim at the top of the river or lake or whatever.... then the other host comes by, a bird, and it sees the fish and is like "hey kool, easy prey, hehehehe" and it eats the fish and then it gets the parasite in it... and the parasite controls the bird to well... ummmm ... shall we say, go to the bathroom a lot when it fly's over water.

making the fluke's babies, i guess, go back into the water and they go to other fish and they cycle continues.

i think it's kind of kool, u may think it's kind of sick.

there is another fluke that acts the same but in another species..

it lives in 3 animals -the cow, the snail, and the ant-

what it does is basically it lives in the cow intestines, it then goes out of the cows umm.. rear... and then snails collect ummmm .... the stuff.... and get flukes in themselves then the flukes travel inside the snail and the snail throws them up... then ants colect the flukes in the mucus the snail vomited and the fluke goes into the ants brain and at night or evening when the cows are grazing the fluke tells the ant to crawl to the top of the blades of grass so that the cow will eat them ... returning the fluke to it's first host.