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  Reminds me of true story of woman in the Middle Ages who survived the Black Death in some isolated village in England somewhere.

  When she came to, after days of pain and pustules and copious constant sweating and hallucinations, she was in serious need of something to drink. Went to the kitchen and grabbed a large jug of water that was resting on the table. Drank the whole lot.

  Then realized it was pig fat.

  But hey she survived — one of the very few that had some kind of immunity to the Plague, kind of like the very few who have innate immunity to HIV/Aids.

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  • no one mistakes pig fat for water. oh, and a true story from the middle ages? loffleephix
  • Take it up with the BBC who made the doc, man. What do I know! It was a pretty serious prog, person was still halucinating presumably.NonEntity
  • hallucinating (presumably)NonEntity
  • Not really an addition to 'top that', just story above reminded me of it
    
    :)NonEntity
  • fair enough. just sounds ridiculous.ephix
  • Yup — u'd think that wd kill her instead! Villagers thought that was therefore what saved her, but docs now think it likely to be genetic etcNonEntity
  • genetic etcNonEntity
  • science is so boring
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  • Yah... What happened to the romance??NonEntity

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