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Scientist creates new flu virus that can kill all of humanity
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Posted on 07/02/2014 12:26:00 PM PDT by chessplayer

Working at a lab with a relatively low level-two biosafety rating, University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Yoshihiro Kawaoka has created a strain of flu that can completely escape the human immune system.

Most people today have a level of immunity to the H1N1 flu, which is now regarded as a relatively low threat. Kawaoka genetically manipulated H1N1 so it can "escape" our neutralising antibodies. This would make the human immune system—and population—unable to resist an outbreak.

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To: Olog-hai

Can’t study how to fight extremely fatal viruses without extremely fatal viruses. Also recombining the flu in lab conditions gives them better ability to predict normal flu mutations, so maybe we could actually start making flu vaccines for the ACTUAL strains that will be spreading rather than best guessing (usually wrong).


21 posted on 07/02/2014 12:37:17 PM PDT by discostu (Ladies and gentlemen watch Ruth!)
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To: Olog-hai

First thought I had as well...

I can see it happening by accident, but to have that as a goal, you’d have to be a liberal.


22 posted on 07/02/2014 12:38:15 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: chessplayer

Who funded this “research?”


23 posted on 07/02/2014 12:39:16 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Olog-hai

I thought Mengele was dead.


24 posted on 07/02/2014 12:39:34 PM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: rktman

“The warmers and ecowackos will love that. Let’s let them do the clinical trials on it. Lookin’ for hands.”

Sometime in the ‘70’s an animal rights terrorist group attacked the CDC animal research building in Atlanta. They freed hundreds of lab animals. Among the experiments was a horror list of plagues. There were apparently not any infections probably because the rats died too quickly to pass on the diseases. I’m sure this whacko things he’ll win a Nobel prize. But the thought of something so foolish is sobering. Also, once he publishes his paper then anybody in the middle east can duplicate his “research.” Several years ago in a particularly bad outbreak of Ebola Iran sent scientists to collect samples for research.

Actually our window for resolving the Muslim terrorist problem is probably a lot shorter than we think.


25 posted on 07/02/2014 12:39:39 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: chessplayer


26 posted on 07/02/2014 12:41:14 PM PDT by Joe Brower (The "American People" are no longer capable of self-governance.)
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To: chessplayer

Must be a backup plan for the Ebola outbreak and TB in California.


27 posted on 07/02/2014 12:43:32 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“It is not far-fetched to imagine some possible technology such that, first, virtually all sufficiently advanced civilizations eventually discover it, and second, its discovery leads almost universally to existential disaster.”

http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=1848


28 posted on 07/02/2014 12:43:43 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer

Uhhh,, paging Jack Bauer

Don’t eat the sushi. Over.

Options?

Clear site, nuke site?

Export to countries where they eat toxics all the time.

WOW. DUDE! NOBEel prize CITY!


29 posted on 07/02/2014 12:43:48 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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To: chessplayer

The Big Bang Theory
Bernadette: Oh, I take pacts very seriously. One time at my lab, a petri dish of genetically modified super-virus went missing. That day we made a pinky swear never to admit we crossed Ebola with the common cold.

Howard: Why the hell would you cross Ebola with the common cold?

Bernadette: We never did. That would be a terrible, terrible thing.


30 posted on 07/02/2014 12:45:00 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: chessplayer

It’s the only way to stop global warming /s


31 posted on 07/02/2014 12:45:42 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Olog-hai

My first thought as well, although I may have used harsher language in my head.

What on earth are these idiots thinking? I won’t mention the obvious thoughts most of us probably have.


32 posted on 07/02/2014 12:45:48 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: chessplayer

http://www.tntdrama.com/shows/the-last-ship.html?SR=about_The_Last_Ship

This is what it is coming to........


33 posted on 07/02/2014 12:49:22 PM PDT by njslim (T)
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To: chessplayer
Is James Baker a friend of yours? The least you could have done was link directely to the "FULL" article that Baker the Blogger excerpted from............

here, try this:

Independent

34 posted on 07/02/2014 12:49:41 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (By now, everyone should know that you shoot a zombie in the head. Don't try to reason with them...)
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To: chessplayer

And the vial will be accidentally dropped and broken in 3...2...1...


35 posted on 07/02/2014 12:53:08 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If you don't read the newspapers you are uninformed. If you do read newspapers you are misinformed)
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To: SkyDancer

Nah...someone will sell it to the highest bidder.


36 posted on 07/02/2014 12:54:10 PM PDT by caww
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To: Hot Tabasco

Is James Baker a friend of yours? The least you could have done was link directely to the “FULL” article that Baker the Blogger excerpted from............

here, try this:


Up yours,,,jerk.


37 posted on 07/02/2014 12:55:00 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer
“Have there been any accidental releases from labs in the past?”

Ever hear of killer bees?

38 posted on 07/02/2014 12:55:28 PM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: chessplayer

What could possibly go wrong?


39 posted on 07/02/2014 12:56:00 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Oh, yes. I’m sure this will “mysteriously” (or UNEXPECTEDLY) show up on our southern border.


40 posted on 07/02/2014 12:57:47 PM PDT by Disambiguator (#cornedbeef)
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