Reality has caught up to science fiction. That was inevitable I suppose. This one is right out of Stephen King’s book, The Stand. The U.S. government paid researchers to modify the Bird Flu virus, to see it they could make it more virulent and easier to spread. That is what happens in Stephen King’s book and the virus, which leaks out of the lab, is called by the public, Sgt. Trips referring to the fact that the army developed this bug.
And guess what? In the real world of today, 2011, they did it. How serious is this development you ask? The United States government has taken the unprecedented step in having the two labs that made this super flu virus keep the details a secret. Now that they have it, they are afraid that bio-terrorists can duplicate it if they get their hands on the original research.
“The U.S. government took an unprecedented step this week and asked researchers not to publish their findings about the “bird flu.”
The research focuses on how the deadly disease, which kills up to 60%, of the people who get it, could one day mutate to spread more quickly.
Right now, the flu strain doesn’t pass between humans that easily, but researchers were able to work with the virus to create a mutation that does.
The government’s fear is that if the description of the process gets out into the public, it could fall into the wrong hands.”ABC News
My personal advice, stock up on your Muco and hope for the best. What do you think about all of this?
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Pretty crazy stuff, read this in today’s paper. There seems to be enough mutant bugs out there to deal with without our scientists creating new ones…wouldn’t it be bizarre if this gets loose, we will most likely have all contributed to funding (through gov’t grants) toward something that could do us real damage.
In any case, having a strong immune system and healthy body seems to be one step we can control.
Jeff
When I read that scientists were trying to manipulate the H5N1 virus to see if it can evolve in a way that it can be more easily spread amongst mammals, my question was why try to break down the inter-species barrier even further?
It is a known fact that H5N1 (the avian flu virus) can be spread naturally from water fowl to chickens and pigs who can then transmit it to humans. It can also be spread bi-directionally from infected humans to pigs. H5N1 can also be spread from water fowl to horses and dogs, so in a matter of time it could possibly evolve to eventualy be able to be spread from horses and dogs to humans.
I would suspect that the scientists wanted to know the transmittal mechanism in order to create better vaccines, preventative measures or cures for future pandemic outbreaks.
However, one sad conclusion I derive from this news is that regardless of man’s attempts to be more in control of our environment, man’s worst enemy is man himself due to our distrust of other men amongst us and also due to the immense harm that we are capable of doing to our planet.
Yes, we are our own worst enemy. But as one researcher said, nature can be its own bio-terrorist as far as man is concerned.
It makes me wonder which way I should be running right about now.