TelegraphUK: The mucus of a rare frog that lurks in the South Indian jungle could provide the basis of a powerful new class of drugs to combat influenza, scientists have said.
The bright orange tennis ball-sized Hydrophylax bahuvistara was found to contain “host defence peptides” that proved able to destroy numerous strains of human flu, whilst protecting normal cells.
Researchers are excited because the peptide showed it could bind to a protein that is identical across “dozens” of strains of the disease, increasing its potential potency as a drug.
Why not, I like to have bee vomit in my tea of a morning.
these types of “discoveries” generally play out when the government grants dry up.
Frog snot?…I thought the was main ingredient of Gummy Bears…
@wizzum – Good point! And I like to sip on the yeast piss of sprouted grain seeds that has been concentrated by distillation and let sit in an old, charred oak barrel for years. Yeast piss! Hurrah!
Hopping for a cure, don’t leap to conclusions we might all croak.
Doctor “To get rid of the flu, swallow this frog snot. Patient “Never mind, I’m feeling better already.
Uncle Al, I’m partial to Highland yeast piss, not that peaty stuff from the lowlands.
Cellular peptide cake with snot frosting. Mmmm.
“Paging Dr. Kermit…”
@wizzum:
If you’re sipping on your honey,
And your nose is kinda runny,
You may think that it is funny
But it’s snot.
That frog’snot gonna cure anything.
@wizzum – I’m with you, my friend. I’ve a bottle of 18 yr old The Macallan in the cupboard.
The boonie bee vomit here is really good. You can
actually taste the hives that pollinate banana from
the ones that pollinate mango.
this cure shouldn’t be so bad, don’t we already have toad lickers who lick toads to get high ?