Turkish Dogs - particularly Anatolian Shepherd Dogs: Manna From Hell

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Manna From Hell - The Scientist Daily

WOW, this is a fascinating piece by Julia C. Mead at The Scientist Daily. It is a very interesting and well written piece. A mystery about deaths that have swept selectively through certain regions of the Balkans; missing some people and villages while taking many others; people who tried to escape the black houses could be overtaken eventually. The folk explanation of it and the treatments which still do not result in a cure now have another layer of clues... molecular biology has added important elements to resolving the mystery. Fascinating!

Articles tend to go to pay per view or cache sometimes, so you have to move quickly on this if you want to read it. Like the mysterious illness in the novel The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton, this article about a real and deadly disease captured my imagination about its ongoing tragedy.

You can catch the article now at this link.

Labels: Food, health, Science

Semavi Lady woofed at @ 11/27/2007 12:24:00 PM | Permanent link | (1) Comments

Anonymous sent us a woof // November 28, 2007 Fascinating article! Thanks for posting it. A modern model of a similar endemic in the Middle Ages, Ergot in the grain. Just goes to show, everything "natural" isn't necessarily good for you! Catherine