Because of its unique composition and chemical properties, honey is suitable for long-term storage, and is easily assimilated even after long preservation. Honey, and objects immersed in honey, have been preserved for centuries.The key to preservation is limiting access to humidity. In its cured state, honey has a sufficiently high sugar content to inhibit fermentation. If exposed to moist air, its hydrophilic properties pull moisture into the honey, eventually diluting it to the point that fermentation can begin.
The shelf life of honey is due to an enzyme found in the stomach of bees. Glucose oxidase is mixed by the bees with expelled nectar previously consumed by the bees which then creates “two by-products: gluconic acid and hydrogen peroxide” which are responsible for honey’s acidity and ability to suppress bacterial growth.
This is unacceptable. Measles is still out there and hurting people. We really should not be seeing measles in this day and age, since medical technology has progressed to the point where we have the luxury of long life. There’s been more of a push than ever to overturn vaccination exemptions, and at this point, they’re needed more than ever.
This just in: anti-vaxxers don’t get to travel. You don’t get to spread your diseases, especially to places in the world that literally do not have the access to vaccines. You don’t get to turn your children into disease bombs to kill others. You wanna be a disease ridden parasite? Fine (not really but let’s say it is for the sake of argument). But stay at home. Your countries have laws that don’t allow people who don’t have vaccines to enter so don’t even start. If we aren’t allowed to be in your space without our vaccines, you aren’t allowed in ours
