setting: Chicago, Illinois circa 1924 or 1925; the character in question was born in London, November of 1907 ( Read more... )

I have three completely unrelated questions for fanfiction purposes that I hope someone can give me an answer to :)

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I have been working on my fungal zombies for a while (here are some previous questions about them), and am trying to figure out some details of the biology of the fungus without straining the laws of nature *too* terribly far. So I figure I'd bounce my thoughts off of y'all's brains, and see if anything seems Just Plain Wrong or whatever. To the ( Read more... )

Since ELISA tests are genus or species specific for what they are testing for (i.e.: heartworm, hepatitis), does the blood used for testing have to be species specific? From my googling, it appears the heartworm ELISA is the same regardless of whether you are testing dog or cat (the unreliability in the test for cats comes in their small size ( Read more... )

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Googled: Swimming in polluted water. Health hazards, polluted water. Unfortunately, I don't have the expertise to determine the danger of short-term acute exposure versus long-term continued exposure and most of the links had to do with water pollution in Third-World countries.

X-Posted to fanfic_med, but thus far, no responses ( Read more... )

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I have a few questions about alcohol withdrawal and relapsing - I have some of the basic facts but have little idea what some of the effects will be. Hopefully someone here can help me out?

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Forgive me if this has been posted before, but I found this amazing chart detailing the leading causes of death between 1900 and 1998. It’s organized by year and sex, and very helpful if you want to know common causes of death for a specific year. It is limited to the United States, but quite extensive ( Read more... )