Oh Shit !

Oh Shit !
Andre Willers
4 Jun 2011

Synopsis:
Warning : Extremely contagious !
E Coli has learned certain tricks from Marburg fever (a hemorrhagic , Ebola-type fever .) Outbreaks now in Germany (from leakage from Marburg labs) mostly involve attacks on kidney and liver endothelials , but will evolve to full-blown haemorrhagic fevers , transmitted by your friendly fecal bacteria .

Discussion :
What to do ?
1.Quarantine
2.Pray (this is potentially a Civilization stopper)
3. Eat dark chocolate : see http://andreswhy.blogspot.com "Ebola and Chocolate" Jun 2011
4. Eat Sushi Tripe . A sort of fecal transplant . (Haggis?) Make fecal transplants fashionable and tasty . A challenge to Gastronomists .
Note that boiling might not help , as part of the pathology seems to involve just protein folding(prions) .
5. Megadoses of vit C (6-8grams) . Kills all intestinal flora .Including bad Ecoli .
6. Drink a lot of alcohol . Does the same (A perennial favourite)
7. Top up the old intestinal tract afterwards with safe gut flora .(big market)
8. Don't do antibiotics . The baddies are immune . You are just killing off the goodies
Just opens up evolutionary niches for the baddies . Indeed , the whole mess was probably caused by this very factor .
9. Spend really large amounts of money on basic research on the Human Superorganism . Especially the immune-gastric system . Sigh . Not likely . The system is more likely to go extinct .

When human fecal systems go bad , nobody survives .
Ask Gary Larsen

Oh shit , indeed .

Andre .