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Paper On Super Flu Strain May Be Banned From Publication
Pierre Bezukhov writes with this excerpt from an article at Doctor Tipster: "A Dutch researcher has created a virus with the potential to kill half of the planet's population. Now, researchers and experts in bioterrorism debate whether it is a good idea to publish the virus creation 'recipe'. However, several voices argue that such research should have not happened in the first place. The virus is a strain of avian influenza H5N1 genetically modified to be extremely contagious ... created by researcher Ron Fouchier of the Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Netherlands. The work was first presented at a conference dedicated to influenza that took place in September in Malta."
This is why the world hates scientists. Sure, politicians and terrorists uses the weapons but it is the scientists who give us atomic bombs, the threat of nuclear winter, super viri, and now an engineered avian flu that can kill off half the planet's population.... what next? This asshat's ego is what has caused this, and all of the other asshats who contribute to weapons of mass destruction. Raccoon city here we come!
Democrats and Republicans are like AIDS and Cancer, I want neither!
Oh noes, some big scary over-hyped disease like swine or bird flu that kills like 5 people but drives the point home that we really, really need our government and medical providers to subsidize big pharma and stockpile(and, scarily, mandate) vaccines, all for the children.
Or perhaps you all should put down the Lysol and hand-sanitizer and let your kids out of the plastic bubbles to play in the fucking mud every once in awhile. That's how they get an immune system. I haven't been vaccinated in 10 years. In that time span, I never got sick from anything other than a hangover.