Sunday, November 25, 2012

How easy it is to create a deadly mutant virus

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/health/amateur-biologists-are-new-fear-in-making-a-mutant-flu-virus.html?ref=biologyandbiochemistry
Amateurs creating destruction

After months of intense worldwide debate, a group of scientists brought together by the World Health Organization recommended last week in favor of publishing the results. But when they do, will it be possible for others to recreate the mutant virus?
One of the most serious concerns of the scientists, against giving out the information, is that new deadly H5N1 mutated virus could be accidently created in the "lab" of some "inventive American" as they said. Over recent decades the amount of amateur scientists has increased dramatically, and some groups are past 2,000 members.
 
As you can see compared to the H1N1 that ran rampant across the world just a few years ago, the H5N1 virus is much deadly and nearly fatal each time it contracts a victim.
 
Here you can clearly see that when the H5N1 broke out in a duck farm in China nearly 50% of the contracted ducks died and the rest infected were killed off for safety measures. If this can do this much damage to a flock of ducks imagine what it would do to the human population had it got loose? My opinion is that the virus needs to be rounded up and its information kept hidden away from the evils of the world so that there doesn't become a mass biochemical warfare weapon of clear mass destruction.

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