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| Pentagon Virus Detector Knows You're Sick Before You Do |
| 2010-05-13 |
| Imagine knowing you'll be too sick to go to work, before the faintest hint of a runny nose or a sore throat my available sick days juxtaposed against my next days schedule is a pretty good predictor...... Now imagine that preemptive diagnosis being transmitted to a national, web-based influenza map -- simply by picking up the phone. |
| Posted by:Uncle Phester |
| #6 Tested it on the Moslem world, bet it comes up 100% sick. |
| Posted by: Rhodesiafever 2010-05-13 22:06 |
| #5 More likely for use after a bio attack to quarantine entire populations. Just report to the FEMA camp for |
| Posted by: bigjim-CA 2010-05-13 21:19 |
| #4 “There’s a lot of motivation within the Pentagon to get this going,” he said. “So they might have a way around the rulebook.” ....for use on Thursday and Friday afternoons only. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-05-13 19:56 |
| #3 I saw a piece on PBS that caught my attention the other day about dogs. Some dogs can diagnose cancer. Some dogs are called "Seizure dogs." They can detect the onset of a seizure a half hour before it occurs or shows up on an EEG. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-05-13 19:51 |
| #2 I know that work was done on use nano-detectors attached to a mobile phone to detect early onset of Asthma. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2010-05-13 19:47 |
| #1 “Imagine a sensor attached to your telephone, that instantly diagnoses viral agents and transmits that to a central community database,” Ring, ring, ring. Hello boss, I'm not going to make it into work today. I'm sick as a dog. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-05-13 19:45 |