So currently I am living in the project office/apartment with other transient project workers:
-->Anne Palumbo, an ID doc who gave up her work in Illinois to get her MPH and is planning on joining MSF (doctors without borders) next year
-->Lulu Messenger (Louisa, but her mom thought that wasn't professional for her birth certificate), a soon to be doctorate in biochemistry who specializes in Chagas disease (as she sits here in her pajama shirt with a trypamastigote on it hahaha)
So our conversations can get incredibly intelligent and far beyond my scope. Here are a few random ones that came up:
--> What would make toxoplasmosis activate and kill beavers (likely from oyster contamination with cat fecal matter) when they should have a healthy immune system? (versus humans, many who are infected but only immunocompromised i.e. HIV people and fetuses have an issue with it)
--> The worldwide patterns of neurocystercercosis and reasoning
--> The validity and regulations on the American Red Cross blood donor screening
--> If we were to raise awareness of Chagas, the disease of 8 million, which is a bigger worldwide financial burden than cervical cancer, often cited the number one neglected tropical disease (all the funding of Gates and WHO goes into the trio of HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis), it would be getting Angelina Jolie to adopt an orphan with congenital Chagas
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