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.
Lobsters do not age as we do. They do not die of the debility of old age. They are killed, eaten and they may die of infection just as humans do. Lobsters continue to absorb nutrition throughout life, while humans gradually seem to lose the ability to absorb specific nutrition.