Cockroaches as a Cure?
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Date written: Sep, 22. 2010
By: Stephen Ornes
Scientists find many absurd and interesting discoveries nowadays, and this is the most interesting one I heard so far! Cockroaches are found in chips and other foods and I have known that since 4th grade, but to hear that they can actually be a very helpful medicine as well completely blew my mind! Scientists say that cockroaches have a brain that can help fight off various infectious diseases, this is one reason people say cockroaches live even though you step on them, and this is true, thanks to there bacteria- fighter- brain! How do they help? Well their brains might be small and pretty simple but they contain chemical compounds called E. coli and MRSA that they can break down, and usually, kill. E coli is a food contamination bacteria, if anyone eats food contaminated they are surely getting the disease called E coli. But I guess these days you shouldn’t be so worried, thanks to our technology improvements and…we are now assured that taking medicine with the cockroach’s brain can fully cure us. MRSA is also a very harmful disease. No known antibiotic can cure MRSA. MRSA is a type of disease that affects your skin; it affects your skin and is very serious. Since it is really hard for doctors to help prevent these illnesses, we are very lucky to have discovered what the brain of a cockroach really has in it. An interesting fact the scientists have found is, when they investigated the fact that some soldiers that came from the Middle East and were all infected with various sicknesses, and on the other hand they have also noticed that there were many bugs around them that were absolutely not harmed by many of the illnesses that surrounded the soldiers. “Some of these insects live in the filthiest places ever known to man,” Khan told Science News. “These insects crawl on dead tissue, in sewage, in drainage areas. We thought, ‘How do they cope with all the bacteria and parasites?’”
Because these two insects’: the locust and the cockroach have these chemical compounded brains scientists decided to do a test. In one Petri dish they put one of the harmful bacteria and a brain of locust/cockroach, they did not kill all bacteria, but they have killed nearly 100% of the harmful bacteria!!! Of course it’s too much to go to a pharmacy store and ask for a brain of a locust/cockroach to be fully healed, as I said they are still being tested. But let’s hope this helps us in the future, and maybe in the farther future we might have a cure for every illness on earth!
I choose this article because I just simply love insects. If someone had asked me why I honestly wouldn’t have a well thought out answer, but as I read this I know what I would say “ do you like cockroaches?” the answer I would get most likely is “no way, are you kidding me?” then I would give them back a very interesting fact “ well in the future cockroaches, and a type of grasshopper; locust might cure you from a very harmful disease, and you should now know that they are not all icky and ugly, but in fact very helpful!”. Not only did this tell me that our technology is improving, but that it did really raise a bar in our life. Soon technology will become a very daily thing (it is already) but, the kind of technology many scientists, archeologists, and historians use. One day I know we will find ourselves discovering lots, on our own, as there is much to be discovered!
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