Posted on 06/17/2024 6:08:20 AM PDT by MtnClimber
A Google search for "Frio Cave" makes the Uvalde County, Texas destination look like a tourists' dream. One quickly learns that the cave is home to tens of millions of Mexican free-tailed bats, and that you can sometimes witness the flapping horde streaming out of their dark, dank home just before sunset, clouding the sky in a "once in a lifetime experience."
But Frio Cave has a darker history that visitors websites don't mention. More than fifty years ago, two humans contracted rabies while spelunking there.
That humans would get infected with rabies while visiting a bat-infested cave isn't altogether surprising. Bats are a reservoir for the terrifying disease – 99% fatal to humans once symptoms – like hyperactivity, hallucinations, seizures, and fear of water – develop. A simple bite from one of the millions of bats could have transmitted a lyssavirus that triggers rabies. However, in this instance, the spelunkers apparently weren't bitten. Rather, it seems they caught the virus from the air itself.
A team of scientists subsequently investigated. They found that rabies virus could be transmitted to animals housed in empty cages within the cave, apparently just via the atmosphere itself. Moreover, the virus was isolated from samples collected via air condensation techniques.
The episode raised a disturbing prospect. Had rabies, the deadliest virus for humankind, gone airborne?
To be clear, it had not, at least not in a manner that would result in ultra-contagious, human-to-human spread. The sheer number of rabies-carrying bats in the cave likely transformed it into a "hot-box" of infection. Rabies remains transmitted almost entirely through bites and scratches from infected animals, and it is rapidly inactivated by sunlight and heat. However, for safety, members of the general public are now only allowed to enter Frio Cave on guided tours that...
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I wonder how much gain of function work is being done on rabies.
satan minions at work on God’s planet.
They are working on all diseases that could potentially wipe everybody out.
As I understand it the Bible predicts over 50% of the world’s population will perish during the Tribulation ... Cause could be biological or nuclear or a world gone crazy with hate.
It may be what God allows when the horsemen at let loose and viruses and plagues sweep the world taking a 1/3 of it out in the last days
But then again, God may allow something completely different to accomplish it.
The water will be poisoned.
What good is Earth without Humans ? LOL
My father gave me a piece of advice: son, just because you can do something does not mean you should do it.
Bat caves are only for bats or super heroes.....
I believe God, God’s Son, and God’s Angels wonder will man be so stupid …. It’s that free Will thing. Anybody figured out who Will is ?
See most of you on the other side. (😉)
the goal is to depopulate the planet of beings made in the LIKENESS and IMAGE of Almighty God...
won’t work...
God could make Sons of from Scratch... he saved the formulas and recipes.
Done before the foundation of the earth!
From the article:
“Gain-of-function research has earned increased public scrutiny of late as there’s a SMALL, OUTSIDE CHANCE it may have produced SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19.”
THIS IS BLASPHEMY AGAINST SAINT FAUCI OF WUHAN!
WE ALL KNOW COVID CAME FROM A BAT THAN CRASHED INTO A PANGOLIN, GOT THE PANGOLIN SICK, THEN A CIVET ATE IT AND WENT TO THE WET MARKET FOR FISH AND CHIPS!
Stop funding? How about war crimes trials followed by executions?
Rabies is a disease caused by a virus. It is not a defense mechanism caused by some sort of "venom" they carry. Bats with rabies DIE of rabies.
Unfortunately the real situation seems to have conflated with the Dracula legend so now if a bat bites a person he goes crazy and bites two people, they go crazy and bite four people, they go crazy and bite eight people and so the corruption spreads throughout the vorld!!!
“The Gain-of-Function Experiment That Could ‘Eliminate Humans From the Face of the Earth’”
The End of Humanity, brought to you by Pfizer!
A big X-class solar flare would do the job. If one as powerful as the Carrington Event of 1859 happened today it would result in the deaths of billions of people.
So, what is the likelihood of this happening?
"The 2021 Astrophysical Journal study analyzing Kepler data suggested that superflares about 10 times more energetic than the Carrington Event may happen about every 3,000 years, and ones about 100 times more energetic may occur about every 6,000 years."
Gain of function is the politically term for biological warfare.
Yeah God is in control of everything- allowing, disallowing etc- He could use natural or man-made disasters or attacks-
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