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.
Best Answer: I have always heard that you should only cook a live lobster-or purchase lobster that has already been cooked and frozen. The reason, I heard, was that the lobster very quickly (in a matter of hours) builds up toxins after it dies.