Posted on 12/08/2009 12:58:42 PM PST by 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.
Sorta like artificial intelligence...
Well, I've been called unreal.
Probably the 12 Monkeys was involved.
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
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.]
With warehouses of antivirals and vaccines, they had to leave a coupla lab doors open! Those meds expire, can you say pharmaceutical bailout?
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.
What I was getting at in post #21. Maybe entirely new microbes come and go without notice for their inability to survive.
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