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Topic started on 12-1-2012 @ 12:15 PM by CodeRed3D

12 Infected With New Swine Flu Strain (Designer Flu)


www.usnews.com
The 12 people with the new swine flu strain live in Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Officials for the Centers for Disease Control say the sample size of H3N2 infections is too small to know whether it will pose a threat to the population at large.

"It's a very small sample and it's geographically spread, which makes it more difficult to get a handle on it," says Jeffrey Dimond, a CDC spokesman. "Most of the cases have come through direct contact with the animals, through the 4H Club and that sort of thing."
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reply posted on 12-1-2012 @ 01:00 PM by blazer955
reply to post by stirling



I also wondered that how could this flu just pop up in 5 different states, then they find the 12 people who are infected. hmm seems a little orchestrated


reply posted on 13-1-2012 @ 05:33 PM by soficrow
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FYI - nobody needs to design flu viruses - nature already does a really fine job of it. Also - H3N2 is VERY mild. The real danger is that it may merge more easily with more virulent strains like H5N1.


reply posted on 13-1-2012 @ 05:47 PM by Fractured.Facade
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They do it because they can...

A virus with the potential to kill up to half the world’s population has been made in a lab. Now academics and bioterrorism experts are arguing over whether to publish the recipe, and whether the research should have been done in the first place.

At least in the above case, they were compelled to go public with the results of their research.

What about those who would do this, just because they can, and would release it upon humanity because they believe that a massive population reduction is needed to bring 'balance' to the world?

Maybe you'll never know about them, until it's too late.

Nature does what nature does, and could come up with a killer bug on it's own... Maybe already has, but nature can never match the evil that exists within some people... Combine that evil with genius, skills, equipment, funding and motive and????




reply posted on 13-1-2012 @ 10:11 PM by soficrow
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Big Pharma mucks with viruses and other pathogens all the time - it's the only way to develop vaccines and medications. The research you cite is unusual only because the researchers wanted to share their findings - they were NOT compelled to publish, they were prevented from doing so. One of the better articles on the issue was published today on boingboing.


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reply posted on 13-1-2012 @ 10:39 PM by soficrow
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It bugs me that these guys are being demonized - when they are acting more honorably (openly and honestly) than anyone else in the field.


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