http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/08/08/ncbi-rofl-want-to-cure-your-malaria-get-wasted/ Quirky, funny, and surprising science news from the edge of the known universe. Fri, 25 May 2012 18:28:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/08/08/ncbi-rofl-want-to-cure-your-malaria-get-wasted/comment-page-1/#comment-72497 Robert Ando Fri, 12 Aug 2011 06:50:09 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/?p=18614#comment-72497 Add to that the old British remedy of gin & tonic easing malarial symptoms ! Add to that the old British remedy of gin & tonic easing malarial symptoms !

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/08/08/ncbi-rofl-want-to-cure-your-malaria-get-wasted/comment-page-1/#comment-72496 Robert Ando Fri, 12 Aug 2011 06:48:59 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/?p=18614#comment-72496 Shouldn't be too hard to maintain a BAC of .39% . That would make your blood .78 proof or BAC of .0039, if my calculations are correct. We have to use the % because 85 mMl does not express concentration, only total amount. Shouldn’t be too hard to maintain a BAC of .39% . That would make your blood .78 proof or BAC of .0039, if my calculations are correct. We have to use the % because 85 mMl does not express concentration, only total amount.

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/08/08/ncbi-rofl-want-to-cure-your-malaria-get-wasted/comment-page-1/#comment-72455 r0blar Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:39:27 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/?p=18614#comment-72455 Having 0,39% of alcohol in blood each day for 6 days must be a kind of a treatment. Having 0,39% of alcohol in blood each day for 6 days must be a kind of a treatment.

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/08/08/ncbi-rofl-want-to-cure-your-malaria-get-wasted/comment-page-1/#comment-72427 Paul Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:17:32 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/?p=18614#comment-72427 Heh. I wonder if there are similar effects on other pathogens. Heh. I wonder if there are similar effects on other pathogens.

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/08/08/ncbi-rofl-want-to-cure-your-malaria-get-wasted/comment-page-1/#comment-72410 Thomas Tue, 09 Aug 2011 01:20:32 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/?p=18614#comment-72410 And all this time I thought it was the quinine in those gin and tonics that was "medicinal". And all this time I thought it was the quinine in those gin and tonics that was “medicinal”.

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