Mutant Human Eater in India

In some places in India, people throw burnt corpses into the river after funeral ceremonies. Never do they know that, due to this particular cultural practice of theirs, a mutant breed of fish has changed their diet from scavenging to human-hunting as they developed a special fondness of human flesh after consuming the dead bodies. And it was said that this mutant fish is responsible for the deaths of many people swimming in the Great Kali, a river that flows along the India-Nepal border.

This mutant breed of human-hunting fish is a type of catfish, called goonch, it is one of the largest freshwater fish in the world.

"The locals have told me a theory that this monster has grown extra large on a diet of partially burnt corpses. It has perhaps got this taste for flesh by feasting on remains of funeral pyres." Jeremy Wade, a biologist investigating the creature.

During Jeremy's investigation, he caught one goonch that weighed 161lb (73kg) and was nearly 6ft (about 183cm) long!

"If that got hold of you, there'd be no getting away." He said.

The first victim of this extraordinary creature was a 17-year-old Nepalese boy in April 1988. According to eyewitnessess, he was cooling himself in the river when something suddenly pulled him below the water surface. He was killed.

Three months after the first case, another young boy was dragged underwater right infront of his horrified father who could do nothing to save his son.

In year 2007, an 18-year-old Nepali disappeared in the river after being dragged by something described as "elongated pig".

There are still a lot of "monsters' of these kinds lurking in the river, deep seas or whatever, I think that the appearances of these 'monsters' are not by chance. More or less, human should take the responsibilities for destroying the natural habitats of animals and deprive them from their natural diets. *sigh.

Maggot Therapy - The Smallest Surgeons

For centuries, maggots have been well known for their ability to accelerate the healing of wounds. During warfare, the military doctors observed that the wounds of soldiers that were infested by maggots had a faster recovery rate and the soldiers' chances of death from infection of wounds were much lower than those whose wounds were not infested with maggots. However, after the discovery of the antibiotic penicillin, the Maggot Therapy is outdated due to several reasons. People believe that the use of penicillin to cure wounds is a more hygienic method, and patients find the antibiotic much more acceptable as compared to the use of maggots.

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Many years later, the ideal healing rate of wounds induced by the maggots resulting in the reintroduction of maggot therapy (also known as Maggot Debridement Therapy) in modern medical field. One of the reasons is that the bacteria that causes infections has grown to be immune to antibiotics. The medicinal maggots work in three actions:

1. Remove (by eating) the dead necrotic, infected tissue on the wounds. In order for a wound to heal, it is vital to remove the dead tissue as it will promote the growth of bacteria on the wound and thus resulting in further infections.
2. Disinfect the wounds by killing bacteria. The secretion by the medicinal maggots create a condition that is not suitable for bacteria to strive.
3. The secretions of the maggots also found to have the ability to stimulate the growth of new tissues (human fibroblasts).

After seeing the benefits of maggot therapy, let's have a look at the limitations of it.

Maggot therapy does not work on dry wounds and the wounds on body cavities. For a medicinal maggot to feed, the wounds must be moist, and adequate amount of oxygen is present. Also, many patients may reject the use of live maggots on their wounds. As a result, a dressing is applied to the wounds where the maggots feed to prevent escape and hide the sight of maggots having their meals on the wounds from the patients.

The Man Who Lives Within the Present

In real life, there are people experiencing the same condition as Lucy Whitmore in the movie ' 50 First Dates'. In the movie itself, Lucy has memory of only one day, meaning that everyday she wakes up no longer having memories of the previous day. This could be a real big problem in life!

Clive Wearing, an expert in early music at the peak of his musical life back in 1985, contracted a virus which supposedly only causes cold sores. In Clive's case, the virus damaged the part of his brain which is resposible for storage of memory. Clive suffers from an acute and long lasting case of Anterograde Amnesia since then which greatly changed his life.

From that day onwards, Clive can no longer form new memories. To him, every moment is like waking up from a dream, he cannot remember things that happen seconds ago. Instead, Clive's memory only lasts for 7 seconds! As a result, he becomes a man without past. He is unable to remember any of his friends. However, he still recognizes his wife Deborah, but remembers her as his girlfriend. He greets Deborah happily every time they see each other, as if they have not seen each other in years, though she may have just left the room to deliver him a glass of water. Clive also lost the ability to link a type of food with taste, as he has forgotten.

Deborah has written a book titles " Forever Today" based on the condition of her husband's condition.