Well - I can only hope that the United States' interests will never diverge strongly enough from Europe's in order to justify usage of biological weapons against Europeans or anyone else on this planet. It left me shocked when the chinese embassy was accidently destroyed in an European capital this summer. I am working as a molecular biologist and in this field the only competition / rivality between nations I expirienced so far, has been either of economic or scientific kind. As a European citizen I can cope with this and even enjoy it. My deepest and most urgent hopes are, that the restriction on theese "battlefields" will still be in place in a new era of highly potent antiviral drugs and the ability to create / design novel virus strains. I am somewhat doubtfull if the risks that are inherent to this technology should be taken. Especially when I read the East Coast / West Coast thread in this forum. Hell - I come from Germany and I had to learn my leassons on this topic from my grandparents' generation. I thank god that this generation did not have such technologies in their hands. But I am really bothered when I ask myself if our generation should (at any geoplace you name)...
There should be no problem with this. The drug would normally be used after the first symptoms of the infection arised. At this point the immune system is allready in an alerted state. The drug would just reduce the strength and the duration of the illness. In fact a combination of the fully pathogenic virus and the drug could possibly be used as an vaccine and therefore establish protection against the virus without further need for the drug...
a biological weapon that could be used for anything from the perfect murder to a full blown biological warfare. The problem with this drug lies in the broad spectrum of Virus targets. It blocks not only trivial flu but also more dangerous viral diseases. I hope it will not be export restricted like > 56-bit Encryption? It makes me sad that bright people from all over the world give things like this to the hands of the USA-Society and government. a scared soul from old europe
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Well - I can only hope that the United States' interests will never diverge strongly enough from Europe's in order to justify usage of biological weapons against Europeans or anyone else on this planet. It left me shocked when the chinese embassy was accidently destroyed in an European capital this summer. I am working as a molecular biologist and in this field the only competition / rivality between nations I expirienced so far, has been either of economic or scientific kind. As a European citizen I can cope with this and even enjoy it. My deepest and most urgent hopes are, that the restriction on theese "battlefields" will still be in place in a new era of highly potent antiviral drugs and the ability to create / design novel virus strains. I am somewhat doubtfull if the risks that are inherent to this technology should be taken. Especially when I read the East Coast / West Coast thread in this forum. Hell - I come from Germany and I had to learn my leassons on this topic from my grandparents' generation. I thank god that this generation did not have such technologies in their hands. But I am really bothered when I ask myself if our generation should (at any geoplace you name) ...
There should be no problem with this. The drug would normally be used after the first symptoms of the infection arised. At this point the immune system is allready in an alerted state. The drug would just reduce the strength and the duration of the illness. In fact a combination of the fully pathogenic virus and the drug could possibly be used as an vaccine and therefore establish protection against the virus without further need for the drug...
a biological weapon that could be used for anything from the perfect murder to a full blown biological warfare. The problem with this drug lies in the broad spectrum of Virus targets. It blocks not only trivial flu but also more dangerous viral diseases. I hope it will not be export restricted like > 56-bit Encryption? It makes me sad that bright people from all over the world give things like this to the hands of the USA-Society and government. a scared soul from old europe