"The deadly venom being used as medicine."

Venom is now being used as medication for serious diseases and cancers. This deadly venom may be the key to actually being a helpful medication believe it or not.This may be beneficial later on in life for cancer treatments and Alzheimer's disease.  The venom that has been studied to be successful so far in destroying bad cells and helping cure, cancer by attaching itself to the tumor and breaking the tumor down. Further studies are being done. The venom is coming from two animals that so far has worked, "Death Stalker Scorpion" and the "Black Widow Spider". The death stalker scorpion is considered the most poisonous spider in the world, but yet is used as a medication for future diseases. The Death Stalker Scorpion burrows in stones and is found accross North Africa and in the Middle East. This scorpion stings from its tail and contains about a two and a half teaspoon of poison. The poison is consisted with a chemical called chorotoxin. This chemical stops the communication of the nurvious system to the rest of the body, slowly shuts down all organs and eventually the lungs will stop working too and death following. The medication that this deadly venom is possibly going to be used for targeting cancer cells. The venom attaches itself to the tumor and stops the communication as well as travel of the cancer to other parts of the body and slowly destroys the tumor.   As well as black widow spiders they contain the most poison of any spider known. One out of every one hundred bites can kill a human being. Their venom is used mostly to catch their prey, they create a wide web to catch bugs. Then the spider would poison the bug until death to consume. The spiders produce about twenty five to two hundred and fifty eggs. Mostly during the summer months. These deadly spiders can be found in mostly the woods raley indoors. Their habit is generally undisturbed like a shed or crawl space but mostly places like stumps, logs, and in sparse vegetation. Scientist have found that the venom carries through the blood stream and attacks the nervous system causing a painful reaction. But an ingredant in the venom is a possible building block to help produce protein. It's called a certain peptide. The proteins are produced for memory, and believed to medicate and reduce symptoms of the disease Alzheimer's. These simple deadly bugs are the last animal that we would think would be beneficial to our health, but are being created into medication which is pretty neat, and hopefully does work and make a difference! wc=438