Posted on 01/17/2007 10:53:10 AM PST by Moonman62
Both. And that small stain on your package? Nothing to worry about.
Don't you remember they were giving Saddam Hussein anthrax samples?
Sorry, that was more of an ill at ease feeling, on the fact that someone so intelligent to be able to recreate something so deadly, and yet to seemingly not be fearful of it themselves. Does that make any better sense?
Yikes. What a trainwreck of a sentence...
DHL.
Who do I call to file a damage claim?
Funny, I keep seeing the other guy....The Walking Dude....whatshisname...
"Dont worry, its labeled Sample Cat# KZ32254."
Exactly!.. right between Cat# KZ32253, sample of cream from the world's first twinkie, and Cat# KZ32255, a toenail clipping found in the pocket of Jimi Hendrix.
Right. And if you go to your left you start to get into the Cat# KYs and there they have samples of....well....you can probably guess.
Many govts experimenting in biological warfare will be interested.
"Right. And if you go to your left you start to get into the Cat# KYs and there they have samples of....well....you can probably guess."
No wonder I almost slipped on the floor over there....heh heh
ping for later reading...I've always found this virus stuff to be interesting. But I'm glad other people and not me have the guts to don a bunny suit to work with the stuff.
All it would take is some "animal rights" activists storming the lab and freeing the infected mice, and we'd have a pandemic.
It is a widely held theory, but the specific mechanism of the cytokine disregulation has never been identified.
Kawaoka has been one of the premier investigators of pandemic flu for years. He and a couple of other researchers like Taubenberger have had to take the science and understanding of flu apart and rebuild it - they have in essence shown that just about everything we thought we knew about flu was wrong.
I am looking forward to reading his paper.
Does that make any better sense?
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absolutely, yes it does.
I don't worry so much about Kawaoka and like researchers. However, the underlying technology is truly frightening. We can now construct a living virus 'from scratch' using literally computer code.
Genetic sequences for a lot of very bad bugs - i.e. our old scourge Variola, are publicly available. These can be spliced together from base nucleotides, implanted into a cell, and out comes a fully functional virus. Furthermore, if the specific genetic factors of virulence are known, they can be 'programmed in' to enhance the lethal effects.
It's a big job, but it can and has been done. Be afraid.
Gotta thin out the population soon ,, too much Soc. Sec. check consumin going on out there!!!
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