Y'know... the following image fits Dr. Zeke perfectly. See, that weird hairline cut that everyone thought was an "M" is really a sideways "E".
Posted on 08/28/2009 7:11:34 AM PDT by opentalk
I believe that this was research that should not have been performed," says Richard Ebright, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Rutgers University. "If this virus was to be accidentally or intentionally released, it is virtually certain that there would be greater lethality than from seasonal influenza, and quite possible that the threat of pandemic that is in the news daily would become a reality."
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Skip to next paragraph Complete Coverage: Influenza After some planning, he found what seemed like an ideal site in the remote settlement of Brevig Mission on Seward Peninsula in Alaska. In a mere five days in November 1918, 72 of the 80 residents of Brevig died and were later buried in a mass grave. Hultin arrived there alone, obtained permission to dig up the grave and after two days of hacking through frozen ground came across the preserved body of a little girl in a blue dress, red ribbons in her hair. He and some colleagues eventually found four more bodies and cut out samples of their pocked and peppered lungs, keeping them frozen with dry ice exuded from fire extinguishers.
Well, he got his degree.
Cue cartoon evil laughter from Dr. Emanuel.
How wondrous these micro-Promethei
Y'know... the following image fits Dr. Zeke perfectly. See, that weird hairline cut that everyone thought was an "M" is really a sideways "E".
The 1st attempt did not work, was actually revived in 1997
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4724.shtml
Hmmmmm, to have millions of deaths on his conscience. He gets to share a space with Hitler when his time comes.
I suppose it makes no sense to develop vaccines from it then does it? Nor to learn more about these things to prevent them in the future?
To purge....
Because revolutionary groups have been digging up graves in the arctic circle since the at least 70's and The US government (Which arrogantly believed this was beyond the expertise of such groups) finally noticed?
Only following a forensics trail obscured that long ago to neutralize the parties involved ain't happening?
Could it be that some incompetence can't be mitigated?
I wonder if the Muzzies have a couple of scientists on their payroll and this is the beginning of a biowarfare attack.
Cigarette Smoking Man.
Pretty hot topic in the scientific community at the time, IIRC. The upshot was that whether we do it or not, those bodies are out there anyway. It’s a tough call - there was a drive to destroy what were thought to be (at the time) the last laboratory samples of the smallpox virus so that we could call that disease truly extinct. Same problem.
Ping...
“Why was the 1918 Flu Dug up and Revived?” For the very good reason that today we are just as vulnerable to influenza of all kinds as we were then.
This is the same reason the FBI interrogates and profiles serial killers. Certainly, a serial killer in prison is still very dangerous. But he can also help us narrow down how other serial killers operate, so we can catch them sooner and save lives. But worrying that by paying attention to the imprisoned serial killer, he might somehow get away to kill again, is pretty dumb.
And influenza is far, far deadlier than the worst serial killer who ever lived.
The Spanish flu of 1918 was a killer flu, and a bad one. But severe flus happen periodically. A “normal” flu kills about 36,000 Americans, and a “severe” flu kills about 100,000 Americans. Spanish flu killed between 200,000 and 2,000,000 Americans.
But we are late for the next severe flu. Ever since the 1970s, scientists and doctors have been expecting a very bad killer flu. In 1968, the Hong Kong flu was severe, but didn’t become the killer that it could have. In 1976, a different Swine flu threatened the US, but turned less harmful just before it reached us. It might have killed 150,000 had it remained a killer.
But instead, the public just assumed that Gerald Ford was a fool, and that the vaccine was toxic, because it killed more people than the flu.
Right now, however, there is a flu on the horizon, H5N1 Avian flu, that could be the worst plague the world has ever known. Far deadlier than the Black Plague of the 14th and 17th Centuries, that wiped out a third of the people of Europe.
20 million Americans could die, and even with every US drug company working around the clock, we are still pretty helpless before this influenza.
And this is why they dug up human remains of victims of the Spanish flu of 1918. For with it they have found clues as to why it was so very deadly.
And the clock is running. Already there was a worry that “Town Zero” had happened in Indonesia. “Town Zero” is the name given to the place where H5N1 first emerges as easy to transmit between people. When “Town Zero” happens, from just a few weeks to a few months, every corner of the world will be attacked by Avian flu.
And Avian flu H5N1 kills 60% of the people it infects. With treatment.
This is why they dug up the Spanish flu. And I will add that the Swine flu they dug up is *not* the same Swine flu that is currently going around. They are very different.
You're right. Mad evil scientists are much more common in Hollywood than in real life. The young scientist who dug up the grave to get the virus was trying to head off the next storm - not cause it.
As a person that works at a medical device company that delivers pharmaceuticals, it is difficult to read the wild accusations that permeate these flu threads.
Especially the ones dealing with immunizations. They don't realize that people at these corporations are working to help people, not kill them.
” suppose it makes no sense to develop vaccines from it then does it? Nor to learn more about these things to prevent them in the future?”
Shhhh. Don’t confuse the luddites.
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