sentinel
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Post by sentinel on Jul 7, 2014 8:41:13 GMT 10
Just when you think that governments or big business or research dept's "CAN'T" get more stupid they continue to surprise and amaze me by reaching new heights at an unimaginable level we mere mortals (such as ourselves) can only dream off attaining - in the - 'Stupidity Stakes Contest'.
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Todays Winner Is.........
Exclusive: Controversial US scientist creates deadly new flu strain for pandemic research
Exclusive: Controversial US scientist creates deadly new flu strain for pandemic research - Science - News - The Independent
www.independent.co.uk/news/science/exclusive-controversial-us-scientist-creates-deadly-new-flu-strain-for-pandemic-research-9577088.html
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Post by graynomad on Jul 7, 2014 9:05:13 GMT 10
Nah she'll be right, they gaffer tape all the windows in those labs, no way it will get out.
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Post by sentinel on Jul 7, 2014 9:11:01 GMT 10
Nah she'll be right, they gaffer tape all the windows in those labs, no way it will get out. Yeah lioke the 'rabbit calicivirus' that was under quarantine in S.A. until it could be determined if it was safe for release a few years back on that island - it miraculously made it to the mainland. (all by itself)!! |
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Post by Frank on Jul 9, 2014 9:28:35 GMT 10
WOW! Not the same, but still stupid..... www.news.com.au/world/vials-containing-the-deadly-smallpox-virus-have-been-found-in-a-forgotten-1950s-cardboard-box-at-the-back-of-a-cold-store/story-fndir2ev-1226982462210
"US government workers cleaning out an old storage room at a research centre near Washington made a startling discovery last week — decades-old vials of smallpox packed away and forgotten in a cardboard box.
The six glass vials of freeze-dried virus were intact and sealed with melted glass, and the virus might have been dead, officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said last night.
Still, the find was disturbing because for decades after the lethal disease was declared eradicated in 1980, world health authorities believed the only samples of smallpox left were safely stored in super-secure laboratories in Atlanta and in Russia."
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Post by graynomad on Jul 9, 2014 9:38:23 GMT 10
Nah she'll be right, they gaffer tape all the windows in those labs, no way it will get out. Yeah lioke the 'rabbit calicivirus' that was under quarantine in S.A. until it could be determined if it was safe for release a few years back on that island - it miraculously made it to the mainland. (all by itself)!! I have it on good authority that that lab didn't have any gaffer tape due to funding cut backs. |
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Post by You Must Enter A Name on Jul 9, 2014 12:40:09 GMT 10
WOW! Not the same, but still stupid..... www.news.com.au/world/vials-containing-the-deadly-smallpox-virus-have-been-found-in-a-forgotten-1950s-cardboard-box-at-the-back-of-a-cold-store/story-fndir2ev-1226982462210
"US government workers cleaning out an old storage room at a research centre near Washington made a startling discovery last week — decades-old vials of smallpox packed away and forgotten in a cardboard box.
The six glass vials of freeze-dried virus were intact and sealed with melted glass, and the virus might have been dead, officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said last night.
Still, the find was disturbing because for decades after the lethal disease was declared eradicated in 1980, world health authorities believed the only samples of smallpox left were safely stored in super-secure laboratories in Atlanta and in Russia."
That's extremely scary and at the same time not at all surprising. Given the complexities of these things I would not be at all surprised if it still existed in some mutated form in the wild. |
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Post by overlord on Jul 9, 2014 20:13:24 GMT 10
Scary stuff indeed!
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