that'd do it...
Posted on 11/26/2011 4:57:11 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Influenza “A” has, IIRC, eight genes that encode ten proteins. About 200K BP - not a terribly sophisticated virus. Yet, it has killed more people than just about any other virus.
Understanding the molecular basis of virulence is critical. The virus has mutated beyond the ability of the M2 ion channel anti-virals (amantadine) to work.
The problem is that this science, like any other, is a double-edged sword. With modern gene sequencers, it is getting easier to construct custom-built viruses.
It’s a Brave New World, folks.
These amoral “smart” people filling up the West’s academic ranks are so dang clever.
Indeed. Why? Why create such a thing?
Yes, I’m involved in risk management and the mantra among the experts is that a pandemic is overdue. I’d be interested to know how “often fatal” is defined? 5%, 35%, 85%? Are the elderly and children most vulnerable? This would certainly be a boon to the pension system if the pensioners and those close to retirement age die off. In Europe, this would also hasten the ascendency of Islam as the older natives die.
that'd do it...
That’s silly. A disease that kills in 5 minutes is self containing.
1. Georgia Guidestones. This is the published '10 commandments' of the enemy.
Commandment number One: Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
Commandment Two: Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity.
The current world population is said to be 7 Trillion. Getting down to 500 million PLANET WIDE will not happen naturally.
2. Why would any rational person(s) exhume frozen soldiers from WWI who died from a deadly influenza strain? They giddily declared a few years later they had sequenced the DNA...
Of course the cover story was that they wanted to keep 'terrorists' from doing the same.
How would 'terrorists' know where 90 year old viable-tissue frozen corpses were interred? That is the domain of governments and substantial resources.
Releasing deadly virii on whole populations while innoculating the elite makes total sense from a godless point of view. If one believes in an accidental universe and 'survival of the fittest,' why not?
The fittest survive and the weak are eliminated. No single government can be blamed, because how do you prove who released the virus in an airport or subway or sports arena?
Plenty of people can't wrap their minds around evil this bold. Simple historical precedent should be sufficient.
Dutch newspaper, how many hear read Dutch /s
I am actually guilty of not reading complete article
This time i did
the work was carried out on behalf of the National Institutes of Health in the USWTF?
We need a revolution, and we need it now.
I am quite sure that Russia and China both have weaponized strains of H5N1.
My first thought exactly.
So we were in charge of this idiocy? Way to go!
PING!
Have you read this? I missed it here but saw it on Drudge.
Yeah, I saw it. Don't know what to make of it, though.
Mix of Pathogens Caused Mystery Illness in Cambodia, Doctors Say
- The purpose in the experiment was to determine the probability of such a transition taking place under natural circumstances. Many do not realize that Nature is constantly carrying out such experiments. Eventually, the combination will take place without the involvement of science.
- Relax guys, the Dutch and Japanese were studing if H1N1 COULD go super virulent. The only sure way to do this is to engineer a virus that does. Now if the virus does go this path, we can already have a cure to stop it.
... At issue are gain-of-function studies, in which researchers use several techniques to give viruses characteristics that they don’t have in nature, such as the ability to infect new species or transmit more easily through the air. Such studies are critical to understanding the sometimes subtle changes that can make a bird virus a pandemic threat, some scientists argue, and to developing better vaccines and surveillance. But others are skeptical and say that just because scientists can do the experiments doesn’t mean they should.
The dispute went public in late 2011, after Fouchier and virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, submitted papers on their mammal-transmissible H5N1 viruses to Science and Nature, respectively. A U.S. government panel, the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB), recommended against publishing complete versions, for fear the details might provide a bioweapon blueprint. Ultimately, a divided NSABB supported full publication, but only after H5N1 researchers had declared a voluntary moratorium on gain-of-function studies and the U.S. government imposed new regulations. .../snip from another thread
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