Soap Ingredient Can Cure 2 Billion People (Yes, That Was A Billion With B)
Friday, September 24, 2010 - 10:28
in Health & Medicine
Recently scientists have discovered that a little molecule called Triclosan can help us eradicate a condition that affects 2 billion people around the world (we are only 6.7 billion total right?). A parasitic infection called toxoplasmosis affects those many people is caused by a protozoan Toxoplasma gondii. A total of 11% of the population in the US and up to 80% of the people in Brazil suffer by toxoplasmosis. Domestic cats are primary carriers, but many animals and humans also can carry the bug. It can pass on from even mother to the baby in the womb :( It causes morbidity and mortality to some extent, although it is a nuisance to the bigger extent. read more
