be the light

and then she told us she was really torn up because her close friend died yesterday, and also that this close friend is the man who cured smallpox (????) and then after she left we were like there is literally no fucking way that her friend cured fucking smallpox so we googled it and the person who cured smallpox did in fact die on January 26th.... but in 1823

Stardoug's Alpine Adventures by bookhouse boy

One common usage is to make local anesthetic more effective during surgery, for instance. It's used in a number of injected medications.

Bee stings contain an enzyme very similar to this medication, so sometimes, people with bee allergies have an allergic reaction to hyaluronidase.

This is called cross-reactivity, where your body mistakes something for the thing it's actually allergic to, and has an allergic reaction anyway. For instance, sometimes people with latex allergies also are allergic to bananas and other fruits. They don't actually contain latex, but there are some similar proteins.

Apparently, hyraluronidase used in humans is derived from one of four sources: sheep testicles, cow testicles, cow testicles again, and GMO hamster ovaries.

THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (2013) — dr. Francis Lawrence