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Superflu Being Brewed in the Lab
Genial Generalist writes "Superflu is being brewed in the lab, an article by Michael Le Page, describes some of the ongoing efforts to genetically modify the different strains of flu, specifically CDC modification of bird flu for the purpose of developing new vaccines."
Wasn't there a movie about this very topic not too long ago?...hmm...I believe it was dubbed Mission Impossible 2.
Point being, haven't we learned any lessons from the movies?!
Create super virus - (and hopefully the corresponding vaccine).
Sell super virus to terrorists - (and act like it got stolen).
Keep vaccine to sell to public when 'Outbreak' occurs (another good movie).
I hope someone can understand the devastation that could arise should this truly happen!
But, if 'Outbreak' does occur or 'Mission Impossible 2' then I'm getting out of the city and heading to the hills!
From the article:
In 2001, for instance, Australian researchers created a mousepox virus far more virulent than any wild strains. This scenario is unlikely, but not impossible, says virologist Earl Brown of the University of Ottawa, Canada.
"You could create something that is right out of whack, but I'd be surprised."
Mousepox virus. Is it good or is it whack?
Looks like this researcher has been reading a little bit too much slashdot.
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First news item about Cap'n Trips I've seen in a while anyway.
I'd better start looking for real estate in either Boulder or Las Vegas. Not sure yet.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Quickly, someone call Hollywood! Only Tom Cruise can save us now.
We've been in a position for years where a massive failure at any number of nuclear or biological research facilities could effectively kill us all.
so they've added one more to the list.
It's the sort of thing you get used to.
lysergically yours
Sounds like a superhero name. "What's wrong with that guy? It's mono! It's a cold! It's....SUPERFLU!"
Please take a number to administer beatings.
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Yet another post by someone who didn't click-thru to the article
Magic Eight Ball: Outlook not so good., Hmmm, how about Excel and Word?
My kid's daycare has a pretty good batch going at all times...
That's it, you're goin' on the B Ark...
Only Tom Cruise can save us?
We're all doomed!
Heads for the nearing sporting goods department and sets up home in a nearby supermarket
Music is everybody's possession.
It's only publishers who think that people own it.
Fuck Beta
~John Lenno
Isn't that a bit superfluous?
Oh snap, oooooh snap! Score one for the big I!
Until Slashdot fixes the funny modifier, use insightful or interesting. The poster knows your intentions.
Mainly because he's one of the few that lives in Steven King's "The Stand".
The part of the Walking Dude should be played by Darl McBride =]
End of Line.
1. Create ubervirus
2. Create vaccine for said ubervirus
3. ????
4. Profit!
sorry about that...
I'm from up north, but I'll give it a try:
"Ootbreark."
"Owwwwootbreeark."
Nope, sorry.
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Sounds not unlike a certain 70s novel I read once. Maybe the survivors of said flu can battle out the final war of good vs. evil! Post apocalyptic society here I come! -Runz
So, would you go out with me if I was the last man alive???
Yes? Hmmmmmmm....
Probably because the trolley crashed, he just failed to mention that. Book sales and all.
Anyone wanna join me in a group called "Army of the 12 monkeys" in order to divert the attention of the time travellers and preserve a future of virtual instinction?
Just a suggestion..
I am not concerned - I have the Super Vaccine and a 100 Megaton bomb and I ain't afraid to use them!
www.eFax.com are spammers
I am afraid for the whole Human Race. How do we prepare for this or prevent this?Antibacterial soap and a shotgun? Or how about all those little masks I see old Asian people wearing around San Francisco?
there are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots
no but i say we keep the telephone sanitizers this time
Hey all this superflu being brewed in a lab HAH
Ive got strains of all kinds of previously unknown shit growing in my fridge at the moment
Ive even tested the human vector factor by eating some greenish ham yesterday, GUESS WHAT ????
Im sick as hell, guess it works !
It was to be dubbed Superflu-US, but then it was decided they didn't need it after all..
-dameron
The folks at Symantec will take care of it. Actually, I suppose getting a flu shot is conceptually the same as doing a "liveupdate" -- it just hurts more.
All science and research should be stopped for fear of the off chance that something out of a crappy checkout-line novel will occur.
Have Stephen King books taught us nothing?
Blaze a trail to the New World
Never a dude like this one!
He's got a plan
to stick it to the man!
Oh... Superfl u
Am I the only one that accidentally read "Supafly being brewed in the lab?"
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Then people will get sick.
Now we're fucked.
A NYC lawyer blogs. http://www.chuangblog.com/
When Superflu is brewed in the lab, he will fight crime while driving around in a cadilac convertible.
And he'll get all the chicks.
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The price of housing in Boulder, Colorado is going up cause of this...
There's a growing sense that even if The Future comes,
most of us won't be able to afford it.
-- Lemmy
In keeping with the others... shouldn't that be SSARS? :)
Lets hope you don't find yourself in 'Deliverance' as a result!
Those pushy people who pounce on you in the mall parking lot are the terrorists, but they don't even know it.Read more.
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