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New Worm Named After US President
Pravda ^
| 9/9/16
| Source: Pravda.ru
Posted on 09/14/2016 6:18:56 AM PDT by sevinufnine
Biologists discovered a new type of flat worm and dedicated it to the US president naming it Baracktrema obamai. Biologist Thomas Platt, who turns out to be Obama's relative, doesn't regard it to be offensive. He believes it should be an honor for the president adding that the parasite resembles his namesake very much. It's also 'long, thin and cute'.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: flatworm; moreoldnews; obama; science
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The biologist pointed out that many people are ready to pay thousands of dollars to have any species named after them.
A group of researchers from the St.Mary College, Indiana, discovered thousands of eggs of such worms in lungs of turtles. Now they try to find out how these parasites enter bodies of animals and which diseases they can provoke.
To: sevinufnine
I simply couldn't resist....
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posted on
09/14/2016 6:19:52 AM PDT
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sevinufnine
(A moderately bad man knows he is not very good. A thoroughly bad man thinks he's alright. C.S. Lewis)
To: sevinufnine
Wish it were a dung beetle, but a flatworm will do I guess!
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posted on
09/14/2016 6:20:05 AM PDT
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PghBaldy
(12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
To: PghBaldy
yes, but these flat worms are in invasive species...so it’s fitting enough.
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posted on
09/14/2016 6:21:09 AM PDT
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sevinufnine
(A moderately bad man knows he is not very good. A thoroughly bad man thinks he's alright. C.S. Lewis)
To: sevinufnine
oops...AN invasive species.
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posted on
09/14/2016 6:21:31 AM PDT
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sevinufnine
(A moderately bad man knows he is not very good. A thoroughly bad man thinks he's alright. C.S. Lewis)
To: sevinufnine
Too bad. Worm now gonna go extinct. In what? 243 Days?
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posted on
09/14/2016 6:23:20 AM PDT
by
StAntKnee
(Add your own danged sarc tag)
To: sevinufnine
It crawls around in that puddle of unknown stuff oozing out of the dump.
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posted on
09/14/2016 6:23:21 AM PDT
by
Ray76
(Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo!)
To: sevinufnine
I see the resemblance, two thingies and a thingie.
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posted on
09/14/2016 6:24:05 AM PDT
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StAntKnee
(Add your own danged sarc tag)
To: PghBaldy
hotsteaminpilodungus worm?
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posted on
09/14/2016 6:24:16 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: sevinufnine
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posted on
09/14/2016 6:24:36 AM PDT
by
Leep
(Hillary Clinton does not approve of this message.)
To: Ray76
“It crawls around in that puddle of unknown stuff oozing out of the dump.”
Actually they live in the lungs of poor turtles and probably suffocate them to death :(
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posted on
09/14/2016 6:29:28 AM PDT
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sevinufnine
(A moderately bad man knows he is not very good. A thoroughly bad man thinks he's alright. C.S. Lewis)
To: sevinufnine
What’s up with that? The damn worm has no big ears.
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posted on
09/14/2016 6:37:51 AM PDT
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DaveA37
To: DaveA37
So it lives as a parasite in turtles?
Does that explain Mitch McConnell?
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posted on
09/14/2016 6:39:59 AM PDT
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Fai Mao
To: sevinufnine
Nothing redeemable about Obama, how about the worm?
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posted on
09/14/2016 6:45:42 AM PDT
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Reno89519
(It is very simple, Trump/Pence or Clinton/Kaine. Good riddance Lyn' Ted, we regret ever knowing you)
To: Leep
I eats its own feces.I really hope that was a typo!
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posted on
09/14/2016 6:49:25 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
To: sevinufnine
Uncanny resemblance. Who’s the slug on the left?
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posted on
09/14/2016 6:50:37 AM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(I am a Deplorable Zionist Hoodlum)
To: sevinufnine
Worms obviously need an anti-defamation league!
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posted on
09/14/2016 6:54:09 AM PDT
by
jessduntno
(The mind of a liberal...deceit, desire for control, greed, contradiction and fueled by hate.)
To: Fresh Wind
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posted on
09/14/2016 6:54:24 AM PDT
by
Leep
(Just say no to half dead hillary and wrong lane kaine!)
To: sevinufnine
Now they try to find out how these parasites enter bodies of animals and which diseases they can provoke. My guess is that the worms pretend to be something that the turtle thinks it needs. Then once they have entered the system of the turtle they start doing things which rapidly harm the necessary functions of the turtle.
The negative effects of the parasitic worm can only be reversed with Trumpicilin.
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09/14/2016 6:59:23 AM PDT
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nitzy
To: Fai Mao
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posted on
09/14/2016 7:03:37 AM PDT
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Jamestown1630
("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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