I don't know if I like the idea of civilization being in the hands of the good scientists.
To: sh0tgun willie
PING, and thanks for sharing the article.
2 posted on
01/20/2007 8:07:03 PM PST by
streetpreacher
(What if you're wrong?)
To: streetpreacher
The study follows Nature's controversial publication of the virus's sequence in 2005, alongside a paper in Science that described the recreation of the virus from a corpse and its potency in mice.
Now, wasn't that just brilliant. What next, giving whiskey and cigarettes to toddlers?
3 posted on
01/20/2007 8:09:43 PM PST by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: streetpreacher
I don't know if I like the idea of civilization being in the hands of the good scientists. You prefer?
4 posted on
01/20/2007 8:11:30 PM PST by
Coyoteman
(Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
To: streetpreacher
Resurrecting a lethal communicable disease. Maybe they'll get recognition and/or funding. I don't see a very good chance of current strains spontaneously mutating into that one again. I guess when it escapes their lab they might have a vaccine ready?
6 posted on
01/20/2007 8:14:30 PM PST by
kinoxi
To: streetpreacher
I've never understood why come people find such deadly things facinating. Anything as deadly as the 1917 Flu should be left frozen in the tundra or burned to a cinder.
To: streetpreacher
I don't know if I like the idea of civilization being in the hands of the good scientists.This is why we have medical ethicists. These scientists are working on a cure for the 1918 flu, which will be good to have.
11 posted on
01/20/2007 8:18:52 PM PST by
Alter Kaker
("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
To: streetpreacher
I thought that Adrenergic Drift among viruses was responsible for most flu outbreaks, not silly pointy head geeks wearing lab coats playing silly games vying for attention in some silly publication.
12 posted on
01/20/2007 8:19:08 PM PST by
Radix
(My Tag Line has a first name....its O S C A R.)
To: streetpreacher
Is this flu the only viral bug that can be resurrected from the dead as it were? We thought we had bottled up smallpox, well maybe not!
To: streetpreacher
The study was carried out in the biohazard level 4 labs ... Considering it killed 50 million people, I hope to high heaven level 4 is the highest level!
To: streetpreacher
I*m with you. I don*t like the idea. People do bad things for money all the time. Who*s to say that someone in the lab won*t be bought by a terrorist looking to use it against us. I think the West Nile Virus being in the US was a terror attack, but that*s just my opinion!
To: streetpreacher
My mother had that flu in 1918 and recovered, she was never really sick again in her life. She is 93 now and going strong!
35 posted on
01/20/2007 9:19:53 PM PST by
Empireoftheatom48
(God bless our troops!! Our President and those who fight against the awful commie, liberal left!!)
To: streetpreacher
36 posted on
01/20/2007 9:21:16 PM PST by
neverdem
(May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
To: streetpreacher
Hope the virus doesn't get into the hands of the Islamic nut jobs. Into their lungs maybe, but not their hands.
40 posted on
01/20/2007 11:22:44 PM PST by
El Gato
("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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42 posted on
01/21/2007 10:13:37 AM PST by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
To: streetpreacher
I don't know if I like the idea of civilization being in the hands of the good scientists.It's self limiting...
44 posted on
01/21/2007 2:18:50 PM PST by
null and void
(Propaganda doesn't have to make sense. Hell, it often works better if it doesn't.)
To: Allan
To: streetpreacher
To: streetpreacher
That was the Swine Flu outbreak.
My FiL lived through it.
Some years ago, circa mid 70s, there was concern of another outbreak and the flu shot that year was supposed to impart immunity to that strain.
He was really excitedly upset at the thought of another outbreak of that strain.
IIRC the vaccine killed more people than the flu that year.
52 posted on
08/18/2008 2:49:10 AM PDT by
Vinnie
(You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
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