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1 posted on 12/16/2014 3:41:52 PM PST by wtd
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What could possibly go wrong?


2 posted on 12/16/2014 3:43:11 PM PST by Stevenc131
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This won't end well...


3 posted on 12/16/2014 3:43:43 PM PST by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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Designer pathogens good, guns made with a deskjet bad.


5 posted on 12/16/2014 3:46:40 PM PST by SpaceBar
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If they don’t and someone else figures out how to, then what kind of timeline would their response be, what would it look like, how long would it take, what would be the efficacy of known solutions for current mutations against a novel or new mutation, who is best capable of responding to an outbreak, what is the cost for not studying if an outbreak occurs for a weaponized version or mutation that we didn’t study, etc, etc, etc,...


6 posted on 12/16/2014 3:46:47 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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You mean scientist are “debating” something instead of coming to a quick consensus so it can be settled?


7 posted on 12/16/2014 3:47:06 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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Depends on where the lab is at...


8 posted on 12/16/2014 3:54:02 PM PST by PROCON (Always give 100%...unless you're donating blood.)
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Been done already....
Bernadette: Oh, I take pacts very seriously. One time at my lab, a petri dish of genetically modified super-virus went missing. That day we made a pinky swear never to admit we crossed Ebola with the common cold.

Howard: Why would you cross Ebola with the common cold?

Bernadette: We never did. That would be a terrible, terrible thing.


9 posted on 12/16/2014 4:00:24 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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More Ebola related news:


10 posted on 12/16/2014 4:09:38 PM PST by wtd
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We have scientists to thank for killer bees and leprosy carrying armadillos; now this.


11 posted on 12/16/2014 4:18:03 PM PST by Bon mots (American Exceptionalism becomes American Acceptionalism under this regime... :()
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12 posted on 12/16/2014 4:20:02 PM PST by Boogieman
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you shouldn’t summon demons that can’t be banished.


13 posted on 12/16/2014 5:12:27 PM PST by RC one (Militarized law enforcement is just a politically correct way of saying martial law enforcement.)
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Please make “The Stand” required reading for these scientists.


14 posted on 12/16/2014 5:25:45 PM PST by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
Catch-up Ping... (Sorry, but work has kept me ridiculously busy.)

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

16 posted on 12/19/2014 9:22:37 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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The problem is this: without knowing which mutations make a virus more pathogenic or more transmissible and by what mechanism they do this, it is impossible to know whether a virus circulating in the wild is mutating in such a way as to make it more pathogenic or transmissible.

Nature is the biggest experimenter there is. And Nature, unlike scientists, makes no effort to contain viruses.

I would rather know ahead of time if a virus is mutating in such a way as to make it more pathogenic or transmissible. I want to be forewarned in time to make preparations before it spreads too far to be contained.


17 posted on 12/19/2014 4:04:15 PM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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