The Christmas Factor.

Dec 24, 2022

Merry Christmas, Happy and Healthy Holidays to everyone,

for those who like music, few special songs (updates will be now at the end of the post):

for those who prefer different style, maybe this, still from this continent:

that’s the only good thing about youtube, the countless music recordings, in all languages of the world:) If it was just the right frequency..

A virtual trip across this little world of ours, with a Christmas mix in spanish:

and now jump over the ocean, here a chinese version:

little bit to the east, deep in south:

even more to the south in other direction:

and now the next big island:

now quite to north, Japan:

now around the corner:

and now what their neighbors sing, all in polish:

and lets finish the musical musings in Germany:

since it is hard to find some songs from Antarctica… Maybe just this last one, using the name of the location:

Sorry, for leaving out so many countries… The point is, the whole world celebrates today, including Dr. Fauci’s, it is also his birthday, the 24th of December.

And here what else happens around Christmas, word used in a different sense.

The history goes all the way back to 1952...

According to the wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factor_IX):

Factor IX (or Christmas factor) (EC 3.4.21.22) is one of the serine proteases of the coagulation system; it belongs to peptidase family S1. Deficiency of this protein causes haemophilia B. It was discovered in 1952 after a young boy named Stephen Christmas was found to be lacking this exact factor, leading to haemophilia.[5]

Factor IX is a serine protease that cleaves and activates factor X in the proteolytic cascade that results in the conversion of fibrinogen into fibrin, and hence in blood coagulation. ^1 Hemophilia is due to defects in either the gene for coagulation factor VIII or that for factor IX. Mutations of the factor VIII gene cause hemophilia A, or classic hemophilia, while those of the factor IX gene cause hemophilia B, or Christmas disease.

According to https://www.liquisearch.com/stephen_christmas/biography :

Stephen was dependent on blood and plasma transfusions, and was infected with HIV in the period during which blood was not routinely screened for this virus. He became an active worker for the Canadian Haemophilia Society and campaigned for transfusion safety ever since getting infected, but developed AIDS, of which he died in 1993.

The reason for this was/is this molecule: