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2009-04-29 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Fred 2009-04-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Umm this one's actually a bit simple to debunk. The virus has already been sequenced. They only need to check it against various lab samples and known strains. Creating a supervirus for profit is typical 3rd world fantasy BS.

The probable cause has been discussed here by others far more informed than me, and apparently for more informed than the Indonesian ignoramuses.

Step 1 Avian flu needed only one evolution to become able to infect pigs. Inoculating pigs with live virus could have caused this as well.

Step 2 Flu moves as normal H1 swine flu, from pigs to people. Happens every year, albeit in small numbers Still no human-to-human transmission. But the bird flu alleles may help that.

Step 3 Flu evolves to become type A transmittable between humans. Either corsses wiht Influenza A, or just a "lucky" hit.

Voila! ManBirdPig Virus. No evil pharma company or mad Islamic scientist needed.

And a cardiologist is not the person to quote about this - she knows diddly epidemiology. Stick to your specialty or earn the title of Doc Dumbass. I'd trust her as much as I would a Dentist or a plumber - they have pretty much the same level of specialized education in virology.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-04-29 01:18|| 2009-04-29 01:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Step 1: Genetically engineer superflu.

Step 2: ??????

Step 3: Profit!

Posted by Seafarious 2009-04-29 09:33|| 2009-04-29 09:33|| Front Page Top

#3 While it is not impossible that this bug was 'engineered' I am confident it would not have been done by evil and greedy Western pharmaceutical companies. IF (big 'if') it was intentionally created and released, it would have to have been done by a group which does not value life - perhaps a group which professes to "love death." Not likely, but more likely than the pharma scenario.

Posted by Glenmore 2009-04-29 09:54|| 2009-04-29 09:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Perhaps it was developed in order to scare the American people into universal health care.

Posted by bman 2009-04-29 11:01|| 2009-04-29 11:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Egypt has no reported cases of the flu, it is not transmitted from eating pork, yet they are destroying the 300,000 swine there. Most likely any engineering would be be from the anti-capitalist, anti-western culture of death.

Posted by Thealing Borgia 122 2009-04-29 11:08|| 2009-04-29 11:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Yeah, that 5 year old Mexican kid on the pig farm is a world-class mad scientist in his spare time.

Posted by mojo 2009-04-29 11:26|| 2009-04-29 11:26|| Front Page Top

#7 It might be manmade, albeit inadvertent.

Using live virus flu vaccinations is just adding more genetic material, wild strains can combine with.

Posted by Phil_B 2009-04-29 12:20|| 2009-04-29 12:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Captain Trips!

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-04-29 14:57|| 2009-04-29 14:57|| Front Page Top

#9 Somebody had to say it.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-04-29 15:04|| 2009-04-29 15:04|| Front Page Top

#10 Drudge red letter headline:

WHO says only 7 swine flu deaths not 152

So shouldn't the headline be in black?

Posted by Cynicism Inc 2009-04-29 18:07|| 2009-04-29 18:07|| Front Page Top

#11 I heart your reference, Ebbang.

M-O-O-N. That spells swine.

Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2009-04-29 21:29|| 2009-04-29 21:29|| Front Page Top

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