Re plasma & Trump's bruise: LA Times yesterday on 1901's Nobel Prize "convalescent serum" ...

[Hekate]

To all of you who have been patient with my complaints about my old iPad: I have a new one. Now I can copy/paste links to Los Angeles Times excellent articles. Seems I still can’t highlight and copy any of the contents, tho I can save them as pdfs.

Apologies, but I do hope this will get you there. Anyone with more skill than I can do the usual 4 paragraphs.

It is an excellent scientific thriller about pre-vaccination days, and how a scientist this year had a light-bulb moment about the potential for using this old technique that has the potential to save many lives. He pulled together a team, and they went to work.

https://enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/latimes/default.aspx?edid=1629564f-836d-4dd7-88f3-30ef74a34524

[Hekate]

1. Self kick

[Nevilledog]

2. Here ya go.

https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-08-01/inside-the-clinical-trial-testing-the-healing-powers-of-blood-from-covid-19-survivors

How scientists revived an old-school treatment for a 21st century pandemic

A few weeks after the new coronavirus arrived on U.S. shores, Dr. Arturo Casadevall hatched a plan to beat back the outbreak with a medical advance so powerful it had earned a Nobel Prize.

In 1901.

That’s when Dr. Emil Adolf von Behring was honored for pioneering the use of so-called convalescent serum as a treatment for diphtheria. In 1892, the Prussian bacteriologist infected horses with the pathogen that causes the deadly disease. If the beasts recovered, Von Behring harvested their blood, removed its red blood cells and clotting proteins, and introduced the resulting antibody-rich fluid into the bloodstreams of human diphtheria patients.

Until a diphtheria vaccine came into broad use in the 1930s, Von Behring’s daring experiments saved countless lives. At the end of the 19th century, diphtheria, known as “the strangling angel,” was the 10th most common cause of death in the United States, and a pitiless killer of children.

*snip*

[Hekate]

4. Many thanks, Nevilledog!

[Nevilledog]

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[crickets]

6. Excellent article; thanks. nt

[GusBob]

3. Spoiler

Its bleach