Is this true? Alligator blood cures HIV?

[skrilla]

Am i losin it, or did i hear somthing about alligator blood being a cure for HIV?
And if it is tru, what are everyones opinions on this. Should we kill all th3 gators to cure people with the disease.?

 

[Mark]

# 1 - Where did you hear this ?

# 2 - Why would we need to kill all the aligators to extract blood ?

 

[skrilla]

pochers would be doing it wouldnt they? i would imagin the price for alligator blood would rise tremendously. The info was read on a norweigen site.. My girlfriend was reading teh news on the site and i saw the pictures and everything, but now when we go to the site there is nothing about it. thats why i asked if its tru or not.. i would think if it was it would be all over the news everywhere. the site was either www.vg.no or www.db.no not sure which one it was.

 

[ammo]

Ive never heard about it, but you wouldnt need to kill them to get blood, would be more worth while to extract a bit and leave the aligator alove.

But still i dont even know if its true

 

[gchick]

im sure i've heard of this news too...



lemme see if i can find the link

 

[skrilla]

i just found the link, it wasnt a alligator it was crocadile blood. heres the link.
http://www.dagbladet.no/dinside/2005/08/20/440758.html

its in norweigen thuogh,lol

 

[RJ]

"Merchant and Britton hope one day to use croc serum to produce antibiotics for human use, although they admit it may currently be a bit too strong for our feeble bodies. Merchant concludes: "There is a lot of work to be done. It may take years before we can get to the stage where we have something to market.""

Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08/16/hiv_busting_croc_blood/

 

[gchick]

here it is...full story

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Scientists in Australia's tropical north are collecting blood from crocodiles in the hope of developing a powerful antimicrobial drugs for humans, after tests showed that the reptile's immune system kills HIV.

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The crocodile's immune system is much more powerful than that of humans, preventing life-threatening infections after savage territorial fights that often leave the animals with gaping wounds and missing limbs.

"They tear limbs off each other and despite the fact that they live in this environment with all these microbes, they heal up very rapidly and normally almost always without infection," said U.S. scientist Mark Merchant, who has been taking crocodile blood samples in the Northern Territory.

Initial studies of the crocodile immune system in 1998 found that several antibodies in the reptile's blood killed bacteria resistant to penicillin, such as Staphylococcus aureus, Australian scientist Adam Britton told Reuters on Tuesday. It was also a more powerful killer of HIV than the human immune system.