Common/harmless virus kills cancers.....

[Dr Mordrid]

http://reuters.myway.com/article/20050621/2005-06-21T202145Z_01_N21629972_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-HEALTH-CANCER-VIRUS-DC.html

Dr. Mordrid

[Jammrock]

Makes you wonder how many people with cancer over use antibiotics.

[Mehen]

Very cool doc

[cjolley]

Makes you wonder how many people with cancer over use antibiotics.

Antibiotics have no effect on virii.

[Brian R.]

Maybe the virus kills cancer cells.

I hope they used a negative control. They didn't mention it if they did. It would totally invalidate their results. Investigation has not been peer-reviewed for validity either. Don't go infecting yourself just yet Doc.

[Dr Mordrid]

Given the stats I'm probably already infected

Dr. Mordrid

[Jammrock]

Antibiotics have no effect on virii.

virii ... I love that word. It's so illogical My bad, you are right. It's been one of those weeks where me head isn't working right.

[Wombat]

If you want to get technical, it's also incorrect. The plural is, and is only, viruses.

I took 3 years of Latin, "virus" doesn't work that way.

[cjolley]

Busted...

[Jammrock]

If you want to get technical, it's also incorrect. The plural is, and is only, viruses.

I took 3 years of Latin, "virus" doesn't work that way.

Next you're going to say the plural of Lexus isn't Lexi

[schmosef]

I know a girl named Lexi whose got a plural I'd like to conjugate!

[Brian R.]

Given the stats I'm probably already infected

Dr. Mordrid

I guess that means that you won't likely get breast cancer?

[Dr Mordrid]

Since i'm male I'd say that's a pretty safe bet regardless of my status re: the virus under discussion. The breast cancer rate among males is pretty low at <1% the rate for females.

Another factor is my ethnicity, which doesn't have the highest rate for male breast cancer. US males with African ancestry get it at almost 2x the rate for US white males (14/million vs 8/million), which is similar to the UK rate. The rate for Japanese men is among the lowest while Egyptians and other middle easterners are somewhere in the middle.

What's also interesting is that male breast cancer in some African nations (Zambia for one) accounts for almost 15% of all breast cancers, a rate much higher than elsewhere. This could be due to the higher rate of liver diseases and malnutrition which can cause increases in endogenous estrogens, but some genetic contribution could also be present.

One more good reason for treatments tailored specifically to both sex and ethnicity, though the American political correctness crowd doesn't like the latter strategy

A similar effect is seen in males who have gynecomastia, whose breast tissue responds to hormonal influences by growing ducts and connective tissues, which are where female cancers often start.

Dr. Mordrid

[Gurm]

Well if "virus" were a second declension noun, then the plural would be viri, but only in the nominative.

However, there already is a viri as a plural, it's the plural of MAN (vir). And since viri would be the GENITIVE plural, you'd be grabbing... well, y'know.

Here's some reading on it:

http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/plural-of-virus.html

[cjolley]

If you want to get technical, it's also incorrect...

Well if "virus" were a second declension noun, then the plural would be viri, but only in the nominative.

However, there already is a viri as a plural, it's the plural of MAN (vir). And since viri would be the GENITIVE plural, you'd be grabbing... well, y'know.

Here's some reading on it:

http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/plural-of-virus.html

I've decided I don't want to get technical.
So virii it is


PS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescri...nd_description