[GiovannaNicoletta]

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[43north]

“Dutch scientists have created a flu virus which is so deadly...”

How do they know?

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting. Very interesting.

life/health BUMP!

[Farmer Dean]

What were they thinking?Why would anyone want to create a killer virus like this?

[Jack Hammer]

Shades of Twelve Monkeys; could be the beginning of the end.

[Chode]

and they did this because...???

[B.O. Plenty]

WTF are these lunatics doing "creating" a virus anyway?

This is another "you can't make this shit up"...story.

The research team, led by Ron Fouchier, professor of virology at Erasmus teaching hospitalought to be captured and put away in a Dutch dungeon for thinking up this "experiment"...

It would be really interesting to know just what they had in mind....

[SpaceBar]

We simply need a legal doctrine where if anyone dies from this pathogen, the good doctor goes to prison for murder. Let him immerse his petri dishes in Chlorox, or take his chances. He’s nothing more than a modern day Doctor Frankenstein and his monster is in a cage... for now.

[momtothree]

Doesn’t every modern zombie movie start out sort of like this? Government or some rogue wacko scientist creates deadly strain of something... it gets released and then we have to start shooting zombies in the head. ... sigh.

[nkycincinnatikid]

Am I alone in thinking it really is kind of weird that no one ever reads the posted articles anymore.
I don’t mean never, rather, hardly ever.

[Future Snake Eater]

[chris37]

Nice work, guys. What other neat ****ing tricks can you do?

[Carry_Okie]

If Dr. Fouchier et al. can do it, so can somebody else. It is the tool that is perilous, and the motives of those who wield them of critical distinction.

This kind of research may well be adjunct to developing the capability to produce effective antiviral technology. For all we know he may be more hero than monster. Time will tell.

[Army Air Corps]

This sounds like the plot for a B Grade sci-fi flick.

[apoliticalone]

Why does the “world-UN” or others allow the development of such bio-WMDs that could kill off the world? Once these gremlins are let out of the box either through leaked intel or leaked research or physically, there is no turning back the clock. They can be released without accountability.

These are much worse and catastrophic than the nukes that we’re worried about with Iran and others. My concern is that there are perverse interests in the world that would like to see 50% or more of the world killed off, and it would not go beyond their beliefs to do it.

[RetiredTexasVet]

My guess is that this is the tool that the Obamacare Death Panels will use to execute their decisions. Not content with just refusing life saving medicine, this tool will be used to execute their decisions immediately.

[blam]

It’s Always Something. (IAS)

[Daffynition]

...meanwhile, in Iowa: CDC confirms cases of new swine flu virus

[JakeS]

The paper says American experts are worried detailed information could fall into the wrong hands and that terrorists could recreate the virus as a weapon. The fears are notable because the work was carried out on behalf of the National Institutes of Health in the US. The research team, led by Ron Fouchier, professor of virology at Erasmus teaching hospital, was able to create a highly infectious variant of the bird flu virus H5N1. H5N1 rarely transfers from animal to human, but if it does, the infection is often fatal.

Sounds like the government may finally have their pandemic.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

Dutch laboratory?

Perhaps they've cooked up the dreaded Matamoros Virus?

Bacon is the vaccine