"The fear is that if you create something this deadly and it goes into a global pandemic, the mortality and cost to the world could be massive," a senior scientific adviser to the US Government told The Independent, speaking on condition of anonymity, added "Isn't it amazing how, when you're dying from flu and feeling like shit, you can still always muster just enough energy for a wank."
Gee isn't that helpful. Say, how about we develop a disease that could wipe out mankind, y'know, just for research? We'll write a paper and get our PhDs and ride off into the sunset. What say you? Seriously, if they could engineer a virus that kills stupid people I'm all for it. Start with Holland.
Well at least the idiot admits he is stupid: "At a conference in Malta in September, he described his work as something that was "really, really stupid," but ultimately useful for the development of vaccines." And this sounds really cool: "The study was carried out by a Dutch team of scientists led by Ron Fouchier of the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, where the mutated virus is stored under lock and key, but without armed guards, in a basement building." Stored without armed guards in a basement building? How intelligent. And they are so excited over themselves they want to publish full results of how they did it? WTF? Who in the hell let these retards into a lab in the first place?
This virus again (mutate) Look. "29 August 2011, Rome - FAO today urged heightened readiness and surveillance against a possible major resurgence of the H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza amid signs that a mutant strain of the deadly Bird Flu virus is spreading in Asia and beyond, with unpredictable risks to human health. The H5N1 virus has infected 565 people since it first appeared in 2003, killing 331 of them, according to WHO figures. The latest death occurred earlier this month in Cambodia, which has registered eight cases of human infection this year -- all of them fatal. Since 2003 H5N1 has killed or forced the culling of more than 400 million domestic poultry and caused an estimated $20 billion of economic damage across the globe before it was eliminated from most of the 63 countries infected at its peak in 2006. However, the virus remained endemic in six nations, although the number of outbreaks in domestic poultry and wild bird populations shrank steadily from an annual peak of 4000 to just 302 in mid 2008. But outbreaks have risen progressively since, with almost 800 cases recorded in 2010-2011" http://www.fao.org/news/story/es/item/87196/icode/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So now this virus is (not transmissible) yet, but is very possible for this to become transmissible from bird to people, then people to people. If science can know this gene mutation sequence (before) pandemic, that is good for humanity.
60 % kill rate...wow "What makes H5N1 so dangerous, though, is that it has killed about 60 per cent of those it has infected, making it one of the most lethal known forms of influenza in modern history â a deadliness moderated only by its inability (so far) to spread easily through airborne water droplets."
No its not stupid. Its all done with purpose. The ruling elite wants to kill as much population as possible. The sheeple dont care hearing this flu was made by scientists working for big pharma. More, those scientists are respected members of the society. You, know they make some serious MONEY! What they are working on? Something capable of killing 60% of population? Nahh.. why big pharma workers are not treated as enemies by the rest of the society? personally, when i've contact with someone from that "industry' or an oncologist, i rip the sh!t out of their brains and quickly inform them about the true paid whore nature of their "job"
If Obama wants to do something smart, he'll send a drone to level that building and all the scientists in it.
The reasoning behind doing this wasn't clear from the article, but I'd guess that since the flu will probably mutate eventually in nature, if we do it first in the lab, then we can create the vacine in advance of an outbreak. Anyway, I'm sure they must have a good lock on that door, and probably only 10 or 20 people have a key.
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