At the onset, my heartfelt apologies for disappearing from the blog for such a long time. I have been real busy with work. How I got the time to post up something today is that from the past 4 days, I have been down with a terrible fever. While just lying around the house doing almost nothing at all, a thought crossed my mind. So thought of discussing it here..
You know they say that if a dog infected with rabies bites a person, the victim develops hydrophobhia... I was just thinking how would that happen. I mean of course dogs hate water, but if one bites you, how do you end up getting his characteristics?
I agree that there is a transfer of germs, but that should make you sick and not behave like a dog. Is it like there is DNA splicing from the dog's DNA from his saliva and the victim's? How does one get the characteristics of another animal, without DNA interference?
Another example, you know when a person is infected by malaria, he develops chills before he has the fever. Us it like, Mosquitos fly at night and feel cold and when they bite a person, transfer their characteristics or rather feelings to the victim. Just like in the case of rabies.
These thoughts really intrigued me, so thought should put up on the blog and see what people think about these phenomena... I know they sound stupid, but you never know what might come out of stupid ideas.;)
Would love to hear views.
PS. I am having cyclic fever, it goes up suddenly stays high for a couple of hours and then comes down by itself. Has anyone heard about such a 'cyclic fever'? If yes please comment and suggest me how to get well ASAP. your help is highly appreciated.:)
Hey, how are you doing?
ReplyDeleteAbout that hydrophobia thing after a dog bites, it's not because of transfer of characteristics from the dog to humans, it's related to the disease rabies. Wikipedia says: "The production of large quantities of saliva and tears coupled with an inability to speak or swallow are typical during the later stages of the disease; this can result in hydrophobia, in which the patient has difficulty swallowing because the throat and jaw become slowly paralyzed, shows panic when presented with liquids to drink, and cannot quench his or her thirst."
And about the chills, they are not unusual. They accompany almost every high fever.
And guess what, three days ago, I also had this up-and-down fever. But it was just for one day. Thank God.
Hope you are doing well. Take care.
hey. saw your comment today, the chills have been gone for like forever. but i am glad you did comment.
ReplyDeletenice thing you discovered on Wiki, great work, explains a lot, which i would have never tried to find out and would have made up theories for the same.;)