Posted on 09/10/2014 11:17:48 AM PDT by Covenantor
Two of my children are microbiologists specializing in genetic engineering & cloning. They primarily worked in medical schools with virus hosts such as malaria mosquitoes and bovine babesio to genetically modify the host to be invulnerable to the virus.
They both have now sold their souls to the pharmaceutical industry. They are the reason why I follow virus research as much as possible.
The one that really peaks my interest is CreutzfeldtJakob disease, which is a prion disease. That stuff is almost indestructible.
Two of my children are microbiologists specializing in genetic engineering & cloning. They primarily worked in medical schools with virus hosts such as malaria mosquitoes and bovine babesio to genetically modify the host to be invulnerable to the virus.
They both have now sold their souls to the pharmaceutical industry. They are the reason why I follow virus research as much as possible.
The one that really peaks my interest is CreutzfeldtJakob disease, which is a prion disease. That stuff is almost indestructible.
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...
Not dissimilar to Captain Trips, I take it.
PING!
Thanks for the ping!
You’re Welcome, Alamo-Girl!
and possibly sent to all 50 states at once? Inside little children who cant speak the language so they cant describe their symptoms?
Ping
Of course, this administration will do exactly the wrong thing - let patients in so they can spread it here.....I truly believe this is the administration’s biological warfare attack on it’s own people. Don’t forget Bill Ayres and the rest of the commies said 25,000,000 people must die to bring the people under control.
How so?
Why do viruses mutate?http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/technology/faq-how-viruses-mutate-1.780051To survive: unlike plants, animals and other organisms, the only way a virus can reproduce is through a host cell, which it does by attaching its surface proteins to the cell's membrane and injecting its genetic material into the cell. This genetic material, either DNA or RNA, then carries with it the instructions to the cell's machinery to make more viruses. These new viruses then leave the cell and spread to other parts of the host organism.
But host organisms are not passive observers to this process, and over time a human's or pig's immune system can learn from these encounters and develop strategies to prevent reinfection. The next time the same virus comes to a host cell, it may find that it is no longer able to attach to the cell's surface membrane. So to survive, viruses must adapt or evolve, changing its surface proteins enough to trick the host cell into allowing it to attach.
Before we started importing Ebola cases, there was virtually zero risk of any Ebola epidemic in the US. Now, there is a nonzero risk. Some say it’s major, some downplay it, but no one will say it’s still zero. So already, it’s increased — which is VERY bad policy.
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