Oh joy!
I’m thinking about making peace with God.
It can’t be much longer.
Besides the food situation. 0 will see that there is a war of some sort before the election. Maybe even a conspired one. It may not go well.
Now this is weird. Two tame viruses merge into one vicious virus.
Ping! (Thanks, neverdem!)
Superbug Dangers in Chicken Linked to 8 Million At-Risk Women
I can hear the WHO giggling uncontrollably crouched in a corner in a dark room rubiing thier hands together radically.
Nice going, Urkels. :(
Interesting. Fortunately there is a ready alternative.
An attenuated vaccine is a vaccine created by reducing the virulence of a pathogen, but still keeping it viable (or “live”). Attenuation takes an infectious agent and alters it so that it becomes harmless or less virulent. These vaccines contrast to those produced by “killing” the virus (inactivated vaccine).
While attenuated vaccines have several advantages, secondary mutation has long been known to result in a reversion to virulence.
This is I gather the first recorded instance of an “RNA swap” between two attenuated viruses, which normally happens between to normal viruses, especially influenza. But in future it means that farmers will need to use both attenuated and inactive vaccines to avoid this problem.
That, and wipe out any affected flocks right now, before the mutation can spread.
Bottom line: They have known that a secondary mutation could reactivate an attenuated virus; but now they know that two similar attenuated viruses can interact, so this needs to be avoided, not just in animals, but humans as well.
Brings to mind a picture of a child playing with the (now rabid) family pet.