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> a relatively uncommon treatment for Lyme in which doctors siphon some blood, blast it with electromagnetic waves, and then drip it back into the bloodstream
by contravariant 5y ago
> a relatively uncommon treatment for Lyme in which doctors siphon some blood, blast it with electromagnetic waves, and then drip it back into the bloodstream
That's a weird description, depending on what kind of waves this could be anything from microwaving the blood to blasting it with UV or just shining some rainbow coloured lights on it.
- inter_netuser 5y agotransfusion blood gets gamma irradiated. maybe that? also there was some research on UV-C irradiated blood.
- akyu 5y ago>microwaving the blood to blasting it with UV or just shining some rainbow coloured lights on it. Or you could just say, "blast it with electromagnetic waves".
- rogers18445 5y agoIonizing radiation. Ingenious approach, sort of a pseudo-vaccine, kills and breaks apart a pathogen in the blood that was taken and when re-injected it presents a greater attack surface for the immune system to learn about the pathogen. Also whatever active measures the pathogen cells in the sample were taking to evade attention are no longer in effect since it's dead.