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In a stunning discovery, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have harnessed a deadly fungus, once blamed for the “Pharaoh’s Curse,” to develop a promising new treatment for blood cancer.
This breakthrough, rooted in a toxin produced by the Aspergillus flavus mold, could offer hope to patients battling leukemia.
The story begins in the 1920s, when famed archaeologist Howard Carter opened King Tutankhamun’s tomb, an event followed by the mysterious deaths of eight team members. Whispers of a “Pharaoh’s Curse” spread, but medical experts suspected a fungal culprit.
Decades later, the excavation of King Casimir IV of Poland’s tomb in the 1970s confirmed these suspicions. Four of twelve archaeologists died within weeks, and investigators pinpointed Aspergillus flavus, a highly toxic fungus, as the cause. This mold produces asperigimycin, a toxin lethal to lung tissue but now showing remarkable potential in cancer research. more
Egypt’s big pharma experts are in de-Nile
Yeah, I’m supposed to trust the “experts”?
I saw this movie.
How much do you want to bet that this fungus was originally brought in to develop a highly contagious bio-weapon.
All of the archaeologists died from a condition caused by a lethal lung toxin. They had toot in common.
Their mummies must be proud.
No work on prevention. All the money is in treatment.
Those Egyptians were way ahead of their time.
They installed malware to thwart decryption.
Who could have guessed they had mycoprocessors?
Amongst us. ~Big Foots CPU Fan Dust
Unk Al…
BOOOOO!!! So bad, it’s funny!
ROFLOL!!
Chemo was developed from an incident in WWII where a ship was sunk in a port in Italy. The ship was full of Mustard Gas. As the ship slowly sunk the water released the gas killing approximately 100 people. They did autopsies on a few of the victims and found their white blood cell count was through the roof. True story.
Although i KNOW big pharma is making drugs for the perpetual dependency, but I do believe there are real scientists and physicians that really do want to cure people.
Also, there is a rich medical history of natural toxins helping humans survive and beat life threatening conditions (warfarin, for example.)
WWI or WWII – forget which- they noticed soldiers taking strong or too many antibiotics were getting low blood sugars. Type 2 diabetes pills came from that.
In a woody allen movie about the future, there was a line where smoking was found to cure cancer.
^^^^^
I remember an old bumper sticker. Popular in the day. Lab rats cause cancer.
Those darn big Pharma researchers …