H1N1 influenza adopted novel strategy to move from birds to humans

University of California - Berkeley ^ | Dec 8, 2009 | Unknown

[decimon]

In picayune mode, I don’t like how they attribute intelligence to a virus. I don’t believe there was any strategy but any number of mutations, one of which allowed it to find new hosts.

I feel better now. Carry on.

[Pharmboy]

Sorta like artificial intelligence...

[decimon]

Sorta like artificial intelligence...

Well, I've been called unreal.

[SunkenCiv]

Probably the 12 Monkeys was involved.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Closer than you might think:

The Monkeys, the Virus, the Vaccine, and Cancer.

The Virus and the Vaccine: The True Story of a Cancer-Causing Monkey Virus
(in the polio vaccine)

Tetanus Vaccines, Spontaneous Abortions, and Population Control

[jonatron]

I doubt/hope no one did it deliberately...and I have no idea...who/what/how/when. [I’m just spreading the Paranoia I heard on Coast-to-Coast.]

[dangerdoc]

Some people have looked at the grand battle between parasites and their hosts, and have perceived evidence of intelligent design.

[momincombatboots]

With warehouses of antivirals and vaccines, they had to leave a coupla lab doors open! Those meds expire, can you say pharmaceutical bailout?

[AdmSmith]

Why do you apologize? for not writing mình xin lỗi? ;-)

[AdmSmith]

Not to mention the point mutation in the receptor binding domain change, D225G, that is linked to lung destruction.

But the title is misleading: “H1N1 influenza adopted novel strategy to move from birds to humans” and “Bird influenza viruses have a variety of strategies to cross the species barrier and spread” The virus does not adopt anything and dos not have a strategy. Since the multiplication of the virus is rather sloppy and there are many mutations, with some of them having a higher probability of survival, it gives a genetic drift of the virus. But not according to any plan or design.

[decimon]

But the title is misleading: “H1N1 influenza adopted novel strategy to move from birds to humans” and “Bird influenza viruses have a variety of strategies to cross the species barrier and spread” The virus does not adopt anything and dos not have a strategy. Since the multiplication of the virus is rather sloppy and there are many mutations, with some of them having a higher probability of survival, it gives a genetic drift of the virus. But not according to any plan or design.

What I was getting at in post #21. Maybe entirely new microbes come and go without notice for their inability to survive.

[neverdem]

Why do you apologize? for not writing mình xin lỗi? ;-)

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[freedommom]

http://imva.info/index.php/2009/11/arm-hammer-soda-company/