Re: Stories for James Nicoll's Nightmarish Future

In article <43960C27.30506@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Brooks Moses <bmoses-nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Julian Flood wrote:
>> "S. Palmer" wrote
>>>diseases (think about the social implications of someone having ich,
>>>pop-eye, fungus, etc.) except taken to the next level of weird. Too
>>>small-scale to deserve a "-topian" label, but definitely fun. (-:
>>
>> I have a vague guess that psoriasis might be a fungus. I wonder if
>> anyone has looked.
>
>Yes, repeatedly. Part of the standard diagnosis process for anything
>that looks like psoriasis is to take a sample and test it to confirm
>that it is not a fungus.

I have now asked my son, who confirms that psoriasis is not a
fungus. It's an autoimmune disease, genetically transmitted.


Dorothy J. Heydt
Albany, California
djheydt@xxxxxxxxxxx
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