Limulus - The Horseshoe Crab
Thank you to all the doctors in the world right now, you are our global military on the frontlines of this war of the century. To parents teaching their children at home, this could be of interest and value to look up: I want to highlight Dr. Frederick Bang, professor and chair of Pathobiology at Johns Hopkins, whose research and discoveries are relevant to our COVID-19 vaccine.
Dr. Frederick Bang was a pioneer in applying marine biology to medical research. Dr. Bang’s broad outlook provided the intellectual underpinnings for studying the distribution of disease patters in populations.In the 1950’s he made a spectacular discovery while studying
The Horseshoe Crab, aka the Limulus, a living fossil that has called earth its home for almost half a billion years. It is the blood of the Horseshoe Crab that is so valuable, since that time it has been the gold standard for endotoxin detection in the world. The blood of the Horseshoe Crab has been used to test every vaccine we have ever had.
They have been classified a vulnerable species since 2016.
Thank you Dr. Frederick Bang, Thank you Horseshoe Crab.
