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Scientists condemn 'crazy, dangerous' creation of deadly airborne flu virus
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jun/11/crazy-dangerous-creation-deadly-airborne-flu-virus ^
Posted on 06/11/2014 10:55:30 AM PDT by chessplayer
Scientists have created a life-threatening virus that closely resembles the 1918 Spanish flu strain that killed an estimated 50m people in an experiment labelled as "crazy" by opponents.
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison used a technique called reverse genetics to build the virus from fragments of wild bird flu strains. They then mutated the virus to make it airborne to spread more easily from one animal to another.
"The work they are doing is absolutely crazy. The whole thing is exceedingly dangerous," said Lord May, the former President of the Royal Society and one time chief science adviser to the UK government. "Yes, there is a danger, but it's not arising form the viruses out there in the animals, it's arising from the labs of grossly ambitious people."
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To: AU72
It is:
To: chessplayer
These bastards are crazy developing that virus.Have they even thought what would happen if that virus somehow managed to get out of the laboratory?
The lives of millions of people are or should I say were in their hand.
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posted on
06/11/2014 1:06:46 PM PDT
by
puppypusher
( The World is going to the dogs.)
To: chessplayer
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posted on
06/11/2014 2:28:15 PM PDT
by
Bobalu
(What cannot be programmed cannot be physics)
To: Bobalu
I hope these “scientists” weren’t trained by the “scientists” in Brazil who created (and released) killer bees.
44
posted on
06/11/2014 2:56:03 PM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
To: Smokin' Joe
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posted on
06/11/2014 3:28:22 PM PDT
by
cycjec
To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
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posted on
06/11/2014 7:02:08 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Smokin' Joe
To: chessplayer; null and void; Velveeta; Rushmore Rocks; Oorang; MamaDearest; Myrddin; azishot; ...
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posted on
06/11/2014 7:59:06 PM PDT
by
LucyT
(If you're not paranoid, you don't know what's going on.)
To: LucyT
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posted on
06/11/2014 8:22:16 PM PDT
by
PGalt
To: Smokin' Joe; LucyT
Thanks for the pigs.
Truth is stranger (and scarier) than fiction.
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posted on
06/11/2014 8:29:07 PM PDT
by
azishot
To: LucyT
The same author who wrote The Hot Zone (about Ebola) also wrote The Demon In The Freezer (about smallpox).
Folks, it ain't gone.
Russia weaponized “black pox”, a hemorrhagic form of small pox. It kills over 95 percent of the people who are infected.
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posted on
06/11/2014 9:11:06 PM PDT
by
SatinDoll
(A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE US OF US CITIZEN PARENTS.)
To: Alamo-Girl
You’re Welcome, Alamo-Girl!
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posted on
06/11/2014 9:29:37 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Smokin' Joe
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posted on
06/12/2014 7:28:12 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(#2 reply spot RESERVED for Tokyo Rose comments: "nothing works - give up - it's all hopeless".)
To: GOPJ
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posted on
06/12/2014 8:03:22 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: chessplayer; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; ...
Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the Bring Out Your Dead ping list (formerly the Ebola ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the Bring Out Your Dead threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
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posted on
06/14/2014 8:49:38 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Fascists never think they're fascists. They just think everybody should obey them.)
To: reg45
The goal of the environmentalists is to reduce the human population of the earth by 90-95%.
At that rate, the human race would no longer be sustainable, and there would be very, very
few producers of wealth and goods. Who the heck do they think provides all the goods and
services they need to live?
Agenda 21 is a suicidal plan for the entire planet. I wish I could be there at the end, just to
say "I told you so." Nah, nah.
Schadenfreude to the max.
But alas, I will probably be one of the 90-95%.
To: chessplayer
Frightening. It’s bad enough that we have the Soros Adminstration sending thousands of diseased illegals throughout the country.
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posted on
06/14/2014 2:54:33 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
To: Bigg Red
Soros Adminstration = Soros Administration
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posted on
06/14/2014 2:55:04 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
To: chessplayer
Now, all we need to do is to combine it with the shifting-antigen capabilities of the HIV virus, and we have Captain Trips! Wheeeeeeeee!
To: chessplayer; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ...
Liberal Madison scientists stuck on dumbass.
PING!
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