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Originally posted by noslenwerd
mr conspiracy... you still have yet to tell us where you came up with the idea that this was created in a US lab????
Links? Something?? anything????
Originally posted by mr conspiracy
Originally posted by noslenwerd
mr conspiracy... you still have yet to tell us where you came up with the idea that this was created in a US lab????
Links? Something?? anything????
www.timesonline.co.uk...
Originally posted by Nygdan
This has nothing to do with the US creating the h5n1 variant avian flu virus
Originally posted by cavscout
Originally posted by Nygdan
This has nothing to do with the US creating the h5n1 variant avian flu virus
Nygdan, you can't be any more sure of that than the people who think the US did manufacture it.
Originally posted by mashup
I read today that they have produced a spanish flu thing (not sure if this is right) which they've discovered is practically the same as the bird flu. That killed a lot of people.
I might be wrong here.
Wednesday, October 5, 2005
Researchers recreate killer 1918 virus in hopes it will help fend off bird flu
By MIKE STOBBE Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA (AP) — Scientists have made from scratch the Spanish flu virus that killed as many as 50 million people in 1918, the first time an infectious agent behind a historic pandemic has ever been recreated.
Why did they do it? Researchers say it may help them better understand — and develop defenses against — the threat of a future worldwide epidemic from bird flu.
Like the 1918 virus, the current avian flu in Southeast Asia occurs naturally in birds. In 1918, the virus mutated, infected people and then spread among them. So far, the current Asian virus has killed at least 65 people but has not spread person-to-person.
But viruses mutate rapidly and it could soon develop infectious properties like those seen in the 1918 bug, said Dr. Jeffery Taubenberger of the U.S. Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.
Originally posted by soulforge
You know, the other half of the Iron Curtain was into biological warfare also in the last century. Why is it always the U.S. that did everything!?!?
Originally posted by cavscout
Originally posted by Nygdan
This has nothing to do with the US creating the h5n1 variant avian flu virus
Nygdan, you can't be any more sure of that than the people who think the US did manufacture it.
Got a link?