Posted on 02/18/2012 12:59:04 PM PST by Olog-hai
Ron Fouchier, a giant of a man at more than two meters tall (6'6"), has dark circles under his eyes. His life has been stressful lately. "They want to paint me as a homicidal idiot," he says heatedly. He is referring, most of all, to a powerful institution from the United States, the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB).
Fouchier is attracting so much attention because he has created a new organism. And although it is tiny, if it escaped from his laboratory it would claim far more human lives than an exploding nuclear power plant.
The pathogen is a new mutation of the feared bird flu virus, H5N1. In nature, this virus, which kills one of every two people infected, has not yet been transmitted from humans to humans. So far, a relatively small number of people have caught the virus from poultry, and 336 people have died.
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
I don’t have a problem with the scientists creating killer viruses as long as they are executed in cases where people die as a result of their actions.
“”In the end, the virus became airborne,” the Dutch scientist explains. From then on Fouchier’s ferrets, animals that most closely resemble humans when it comes to influenza, transmitted the virus to each other without direct contact, through tiny droplets of saliva and mucus.”
If you create super flus for the US govt they give you a paycheck.
You do it in a foreign country that’s bio terrorism.
Someone does it in a personal dwelling that’s called ‘the perils of illegal immigration’ and we’re supposed to live with it. MDR-TB anyone?
Where everyone involved with the virus program is executed.
Talking supervisors, top level folks. For a cluster-f this big I think that would be the very least that ought to be done.
The Umbrella Corporation has an excelent dafety record.
The government creating killer viruses in labs across the world and nation in the hope of hopefully curing them is insanity.
They have taken the business of terrorism up close and personal and become the humanist terrorist producers themselves.
Given the elitists controling the government and private industry are humanists; amoral and into eugentics, this is a serious problem that conservatives don’t want to deal with. Some of Obammy’s Czars would kill you just as soon as look at you stupid people.
Yes, it has that ring of familiarity.
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