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Old Jul 15, 2008 | 08:45 AM
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... Can considerably reduce your chances of contracting the mosquito-spread West Nile virus. Apparently something in the fermentation process of the beer creates an enzyme thingy that does some stuff...

Read on! http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/publications/fact..._beer_aug03.pdf
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Old Jul 15, 2008 | 08:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Peter Pantless,Jul 15 2008, 08:45 AM
... Can considerably reduce your chances of contracting the mosquito-spread West Nile virus. Apparently something in the fermentation process of the beer creates an enzyme thingy that does some stuff...

Read on! http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/publications/fact..._beer_aug03.pdf
It's an amperometric immunosensor...
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Check out the big words from Waffle Boy!!
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Originally Posted by Peter Pantless,Jul 16 2008, 12:45 AM
... Can considerably reduce your chances of contracting the mosquito-spread West Nile virus. Apparently something in the fermentation process of the beer creates an enzyme thingy that does some stuff...

Read on! http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/publications/fact..._beer_aug03.pdf
I wouldn't have believed that if I hadn't read it in the Telegraph first ... amazing stuff
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Meh. I'm still in it for the beer farts.
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Defininitive proof a bbq requires beer.
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Just read the abstract in the link, it is pretty succint and lucid.
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Originally Posted by JustAyoungMC,Jul 16 2008, 11:53 AM
Just read the abstract in the link, it is pretty succint and lucid.
We're really not very good at succint and lucid.
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