To: rbg81
Problem is what it is now but what it would become. It is already contagious enough straight through summer season in Northern Hemisphere. Now if it gets one more mutation on a wrong gene, it would become deadly as well. It has rather a disturbing genetic profile.
As it spreads far and wide, the chances of deadly mutation would go higher.
8 posted on
07/02/2009 8:34:02 PM PDT by
TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Correction: Problem is not what it is now
9 posted on
07/02/2009 8:39:42 PM PDT by
TigerLikesRooster
(LUV DIC -- L,U,V-shaped recession, Depression, Inflation, Collapse)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Tiger, you have it completely backasswards. Viruses always trend towards becoming milder not more virulent. Biologically, virulence is self-limiting. Kill the host, you die too. So much for being able to spread your virulence.
The milder flu is genetically more successful, so it wins in the end.
The only way to spread true virulence is to do it intentionally, by human intervention. I will let you fill in the blanks.
10 posted on
07/02/2009 8:50:56 PM PDT by
bioqubit
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