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Scientists recently developed an airborne super-killer strain of H5N1 bird influenza. Their research focused on understanding the mechanisms of transmission and ultimately how they might be defended or defeated. The study was undertaken because officials at the World Health Organization (WHO) believe it is not a matter of "if" bird flu makes the species jump to humans, but "when."
Apparently, a random genetic twist here and a tweak there…and voila! A highly transmissible super-virus is created as A-H5N1, a super-virus with devastating potential. And H5N1 bird flu is a relatively unstable virus complex so researchers were able to create the super bug with a meager number (five) of laboratory alterations.
Could a super-virus sweep across modern America, certainly including Florida, and kill millions of people? Apparently it could (although current influenza statistics are well within normal annual parameters). In 2005, scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reconstructed the H1N1 1918 Pandemic Influenza virus (called “Spanish Flu”), which killed between 50 and 100 million people worldwide. The entire gene sequence of this virus was deciphered and the scientists were able to recreate viruses with similar characteristics.
Originally posted by DarwinianLaw
I cannot find any information related to that sensational headline.
Scientists recently developed an airborne super-killer strain of H5N1 bird influenza. Their research focused on understanding the mechanisms of transmission and ultimately how they might be defended or defeated. The study was undertaken because officials at the World Health Organization (WHO) believe it is not a matter of "if" bird flu makes the species jump to humans, but "when."
All the mutations have been seen separately in H5N1 from birds. "If they occur separately, they can occur together," says Fouchier. Malik Peiris of the University of Hong Kong, a flu virologist, says this means H5N1 transmissible between humans can evolve in birds, where it is circulating already, without needing to spend time in mammals such as pigs.
Originally posted by OnceReturned
All that has happened is that they've created something in a lab which they believe is highly likely to arise in the wild at some point in the future. They can study it now, and be better prepared for when the real thing pops up. Isn't that obviously a good idea? You really think it would be better to just twiddle our thumbs until the virus arises naturally and then start studying it and start trying to prevent and cure it?
Originally posted by Chadwickus
reply to post by killemall
Quantity over quality is your motto I see...
So bird flu is being sprayed all over everyone via chemtrails, is this what you're telling us?
If so, it isn't working very well since only 344 people world wide have died from H5N1 since 2003.
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edit on 28/1/12 by Chadwickus because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by killemall
what a crack up,
I really like how you explained they've created something in a lab which they believe is highly likely to arise in the wild at some point in the future. They can study it now, and be better prepared for when the real thing pops up.
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by OnceReturned
Don't you see? Airborne! You missed the point entirely!
How else could a virus be airborne unless it was in "chemtrails"?