A practitioner took a scab from someone with a mild case, made an incision in the skin of a healthy person, and infected that person with the scab. Sheep-scab is a loathsome skin disease due to an acarian parasite.
BOSTON -- Call it cryonics for crustaceans. A Connecticut company says its frozen lobsters sometimes come back to life when thawed. Trufresh began freezing lobsters with a technique it used for years on salmon after an offhand suggestion by some workers. It found that some lobsters revived after their subzero sojourns.
Frogs, Turtles Freeze Solid in Winter, Come Back to Life in Spring. JANE PAULEY, anchor: On Todayâs Discovery science correspondent Robert Bazell tells us about some creatures that can freeze but not freeze to death. Just freeze and then come back to life. Good Morning.