Immune Deficiency In Stingrays

[mommysboy]

What have sick stingrays got to do with reduced human immunity? check here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/may/29/wildlife-tourism-stingray

Is it so crazy to suggest that this may lie behind the increased breakdown in our own immune systems ?, or indeed so difficult to understand that if we undermine the earth’s immunity that of our body might also issue complaint? Or to ask why these syndromes should increase in tandem with the stressful, toxic age we live in.

And what of it’s implications regarding many of our complaints from allergies to AIDS?

None according to science!!!

But then science can’t even cure my allergies or my friend’s AIDS can it?

All my own words incidentally.

[Goshawk]

[JR Texas]

Not how relevant this is, but it is well known that humans under stress (e.g., psychological) have weakened immune systems. "Stress," as many medical doctors will tell you, "is a killer."

[GuestHouse]

You have to keep in mind that the Guardian is marketed to people who delight in coming up with morally righteous reasons for not doing things that their readership would, in their heart of hearts, love to do, but can't afford to.

When Guardian readers get around to doing these things, they regard them as guilty pleasures to be whispered about over a bottle of the latest new find (the masses have not learned of this yet) bottle of Italian red.

[Jungian]

We have entered a technological age of health and medicine we can keep almost anyone alive thus there is no more natural selection and the weak live and procreate adding their genes to the gene pool as well as their weaknesses, diseases and deficiencies.

I mean this in a very scientific way it is in no way meant as a personal attack on anyone or as a "master race" kind of comment.

[JR Texas]

We have entered a technological age of health and medicine we can keep almost anyone alive thus there is no more natural selection and the weak live and procreate adding their genes to the gene pool as well as their weaknesses, diseases and deficiencies.

I mean this in a very scientific way it is in no way meant as a personal attack on anyone or as a "master race" kind of comment.

Sociobiologists would probably agree with you, but only to a certain extent. The fact that we have almost liberated ourselves from the most obvious forces of natural selection is what has caused the human population to soar.

Clearly we are not totally immune to the forces of nature. I am thinking, in particular, about viruses.

Nature finds a way to fight back. Any species that puts too much pressure on the natural systems that sustain it is threatened with extinction.

Have a nice day