U.S. Bio-Security Officials Sound Warning After Scientists Create Deadly New Strain of Bird Flu

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[FrogMom]

The U.S. government is sounding the alarm after reports that Dutch scientists have created a highly-contagious and deadly airborne strain of bird flu that is potentially capable of killing millions, The Independent reported Tuesday.

The U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity is currently analyzing how much of the scientists' information should be allowed to be published—given the inherent risks of having the information fall into the hands of terrorists or rogue states.

[FrogMom]

Insanity, absolute insanity.

Who said, "Just because we CAN doesn't necessarily mean we SHOULD."?

[Fester Chugabrew]

Now, now. These Dutch scientists can just as easily create a pair of wooden shoes to stamp it out.

[no-to-illegals]

Advertisement for those who want to kill us as to where to go to obtain another method for killing. Gee, egg on face time for FoxNews.

[struggle]

Yes, Virginia, there is a Captain Trips.

[MichaelP]

It is just a matter of time before some such pathogen is released into the population, either on purpose or by accident. Lets pray that the Government does the one thing it is supposed to do, defend us from attack!

Mike

[silverleaf]

why would any man do this?

btw, this is the same race of people (euro liberals) who are attempting to create a black hole under the french-swiss border...no worries

[MichaelP]

There is a lot of Captain Trips...

Mike

[Travis McGee]

Maybe this is why there are more than one horsemen of the apocalypse?

Perhaps 2012 will see the Full Monte. Plague, economic collapse, war across the middle east, global famine, everything.

[LadyBuck]

One of my favorite SK books...

[struggle]

Wouldn’t be surprised if this leaks out in October 2012, right before the...

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Don’t get overwrought about this. The situation is far worse than what these scientists did. If anything, they just pointed out how precarious our natural situation is.

That is, they didn’t do anything that isn’t happening naturally right this minute. Their “recipe” was just some crude selective breeding that easily produced a superior and deadly strain of the virus.

This exact same thing was seen happening in a herd of pigs in Vietnam years ago, by their chief epidemiologist. He noted that each pig had on average five different strains of Avian flu, in contention with each other for dominance in that pig.

When a strain won these “semi finals”, it would go up against the other “semi finalists” in other pigs. Eventually the herd all shared the same, “grand champion” virus.

This *alone* represents two of the just five generational steps that were used by the Dutch scientists to create their insanely lethal strain. Or, I should say, “they” didn’t create anything. Their test animals did it all by themselves.

The chief epidemiologist of Vietnam realized that this is happening in herds and flocks in much of the world right now, acting like parallel computing, where thousands of computers lend idle processing time to act like a supercomputer.

And many of these biological computers are trying to figure out a way to make Avian flu easily transmissible from person to person. And when they succeed, not if, the world faces the second highest mortality rate after nuclear war.

We seem powerless to stop it.

[AppyPappy]

“why would any man do this?”

Vaccine.

[Brett66]

Who said, "Just because we CAN doesn't necessarily mean we SHOULD."?

Jeff Goldblum, Jurassic Park. That didn't turn out too well.....

[dfwgator]

“Life finds a way.”

[WOBBLY BOB]

bork,bork,bork,bird flu...

[Brett66]

I can’t help but wonder if it’s possible to create a virus that would key off of a genetic racial trigger, so maybe a virus that will stay docile when it sees an Arabic racial characteristic and basically kill off non-Arabs.

It doesn’t seem unrealistic, and it would probably take about 5 minutes for the creators to release it into the world......

[AnAmericanAbroad]

.....attempting to create a black hole under the french-swiss border...no worries ______________________________________________________________ What could possibly go wrong?

[meatloaf]

That's already happened in nature in that some people have resistance to a disease because of their ancestors’ exposure and survival. Build on that and you're good to go. In your example you want something that anyone with a Semitic ancestry would have inherited resistance.

[IMR 4350]

“Perhaps 2012 will see the Full Monte. Plague, economic collapse, war across the middle east, global famine, everything.”

With left wing ideology being exposed all over the world for the fraud it's always been, the left will do anything it has to to hold onto power.

If they have to kill half the worlds population, so be it. The ends justify the means.

[Doogle]

Jurassic Park