Crocodile blood may yield new drugs (America, disease)

[Ori]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...ile_blood_dc_1

Well I love animals, now I love them even more .

[michel]

That's incredible - thanks for that Ori; lets hope the crocodiles all sign up as blood donors.......

[CaptainXeroid]

This certainly is interesting and may hold the potential for HIV and other disease treatment. With America's FDA, it could be decades before any thing hits the states. If doctors do figure out a way to cure AIDS with this, I guess there will be some traveling to get the medicine.

[michel]

Originally Posted by CaptainXeroid

This certainly is interesting and may hold the potential for HIV and other disease treatment. With America's FDA, it could be decades before any thing hits the states. If doctors do figure out a way to cure AIDS with this, I guess there will be some traveling to get the medicine.

Surely people facing death from AIDS would be able to volunteer themselves as human guinea pigs ?

[CaptainXeroid]

Originally Posted by michel

Surely people facing death from AIDS would be able to volunteer themselves as human guinea pigs ?

I'd like to think so, but our FDA has a history of 'dragging its feet' in approving drugs that have been in use in other countries. I can't speak for others, but if the doctors were certain I had ________, and that it was fatal, I would be willing to try just about anything as a treatment. Hopefully, they will.