Will This Discovery Increase The Sale Of New Books?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2509288/Time-rethink-buying-second-hand-copy-Fifty-Shades-Grey-Library-copy-erotic-novel-tests-positive-HERPES-COCAINE.html

Perhaps it may also cause libraries to close?

[doctordb]

You don't want to know what's on our banknotes.

[emmie]

libraries closing is the preserve of councils not because some idiot takes coke or has herpes.

[Mamyalynne]

"The levels found won't have a pharmacological effect," explained Tytgat.

The professors insisted that the traces were minimal, did not pose a public health risk and added it would be "impossible for people to contract it by touching the book."

So I doubt it will bother anyone really.

[Zeuhl]

Shouldn't be a worry except for people who plan to have unprotected sex with their library books.

Perhaps the Lefties will try to infect the library copies of the Thatcher Biog

[davetuc]

Alex Ferguson's book has been found to contain many traces of poison, and various bits of sh1t!

[anotheoldgit]

Is this what is meant by the expression 'A dirty book?

[Tilly2]

I have never liked libray books, even before this piece on research. You always find something hidden in the pages.

[Zeuhl]

One of our employees writes books that are mostly bought by libraries.

He would love them to be regularly incinerated for health reasons then repurchased

[FredPuli43]

There is, in fact, no real risk to the public. Well, it is the Daily Mail. It loves scaring its readership, and they enjoy the idea that we are all under threat from alien substances (or people, come to that). If the same story appears in New Scientist or The Times, with proper peer review, I will accept it. How about you, AOG?

[jno]

if there's enough to make you test positive, I would have thought that was potentially a problem, though you probably have to lick all the pages to qualify.

[ludwig]

Some of the pages on the 'fifty shades of grey' I borrowed were stuck together.

[Svejk]

^^^^^^^^^
When it was handed back in? ;)

[Peter Pedant]

will this discovery increase the sale of second hand Erotica ? The D M will wish to know.

AOG it is time you realised that what you read in any of the papers may not necessarily be true.

Particularly interested in the transmission of oral cold sore virus, via a book, purely because I was a tech on:
Letter: Simian viruses. Lancet. 1975 May 3;1(7914):1037–1031. [PubMed]; Vizoso AD. Latency of Herpes Simiae (B virus) in rabbits. Br J Exp Pathol. 1975 Dec .

yes all those years ago
I think we are coming up to forty arent we ?

[Peter Pedant]

Well if you look very carefully at archive film of the Rev Flowers, you will see a copy on his bookshelf - dirty boy ! I hope he wipes every page with a chasuble or something

[Peter Pedant]

Ludwig I find one of those sterile Victorian ivory letter openers suitable for the problem you have

also useful for a bookmark.

[Tilly2]

Peter, are you saying you can or you can't catch a cold from a library book?

[Peter Pedant]

yes Tilly

The book is what is called a fomite

transmission of oral cold SORES - you know the sore red patch around the mouth - not colds - you know atishoo, a tissue ! - should be by body fluids, sticky hands, kissing etc

then it becomes latent - Herpes SImplex I - by hiding in the nucleus of a neuron in the trigeminal ganglion and is reactivated at intervals. So recurrent cold sores are not reinfections but reactivations.

very very interesting disease - we were looking at latent viruses in the then vaccine stock - we didnt find any - but the same thing came up a gain w r t MMR vaccine last year.

[Tilly2]

So that's 'Yes, tilly, you can catch a cold sore from a library book?'

So Herpes SImplex I can lie dormant in a book, as well as in the nucleus of a neuron in the trigeminal ganglion?