Dutch Scientists Develop Airborne H5N1 (Flu)

Stiffler2 · 01-12-2011 5:23pm

ahhh - so this is how they are going to reduce the population to save "Mother Earth"

Good Idea IMO - too many of us

LK_Dave · 01-12-2011 5:31pm

Conor108 wrote: »

How did he drive to work each morning without stopping and thinking "Wait wtf am I doing?!"

Being Dutch he probably cycled!!!

Raging_Ninja · 01-12-2011 6:28pm

Saila wrote: »

pot. kettle. black

Not particularly, anthrax is naturally occuring and all you need to do to cultivate it is get sheep and brush them down, then put the spores into an oven at ~37 degrees celcius, provided with sufficient nutrient agar. A fairly basic working knowledge of microbiology, a handful of sheep and a kitchen will get you that far. Therefore studying it is fairly important.

However, anthrax isn't that much of a problem. You need to inhale a lot of spores in order to get pulmonary anthrax, which has a 90% death rate provided victims don't seek treatment. Problem is, you'll know you've been infected (you'll see the cloud of spores coming at you) and can get a course of antibiotics to deal with it.

A terrorist group cultivated a large quantity of anthrax spores and dumped it out an apartment window in Tokyo. The wind dispersed the anthrax, and nobody inhaled sufficient quantities to develop symptoms. It was only discovered when members of the same terrorist group were interrogated by the Japanese police for the sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system.

Doom · 01-12-2011 6:32pm

Banking crisis solved.....

orourkeda · 01-12-2011 6:54pm

Is it worse than diarrhoea?

Dotrel · 01-12-2011 6:54pm

orourkeda wrote: »

Is it worse than diarrhoea?

Yes. It's even worse than Chris Rea.

dr gonzo · 01-12-2011 7:04pm

When IT people get bored they flip a colleagues desktop upside down for giggles. When microbiologists get bored they think of ingenious new ways to kill three and a half billion people...

What.the.****.

AnonoBoy · 01-12-2011 7:05pm

Can't see anything going wrong at all with this.

John Doe1 · 01-12-2011 7:42pm

They should release it just once for the craic

Kaneda_ · 01-12-2011 7:52pm

They should release it in offaly

yermanoffthetv · 01-12-2011 8:06pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlMSSRweLWM

Aaaaaaargh! Its spread to China already :eek:
THE WORLD IS FCUK3d!!!

The Outside Agency · 20-12-2011 3:44pm

Scientists in Netherlands have developed in a lab an airborne strain of H5N1.

"We have discovered that this is indeed possible, and more easily than previously thought. In the laboratory, it was possible to change H5N1 into an aerosol-transmissible virus that can easily be rapidly spread through the air,"

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/12/20/scientists-spark-fears-by-creating-highly-contagious-airborne-strain-bird-flu/#ixzz1h5Okw8ON

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/terror-fear-scientists-create-killer-flu-114600583.html

Saila · 20-12-2011 3:45pm

release the hounds! virus!

The Outside Agency · 20-12-2011 3:46pm

The fact they've proven it's possible can only lead to other nutjob scientists developing other viruses that spread through the air rather than through human contact.

jonnyfingers · 20-12-2011 3:47pm

I'm just reading Stephen King's "The Stand". Seems fitting for this story.

TeddyTedson · 20-12-2011 3:48pm

sounds like it could be fun:)
I'd love to spray it in work and I'd be the only one left:D

RichieC · 20-12-2011 3:49pm

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSmS96qYfRBQydqoJwt3f9Fv3wVZXnt8dQ7HjfHIhEKNLYSdIc2

The Outside Agency · 20-12-2011 3:50pm

Well, let's say they make AIDS airborne, surely that would be fun to find out too?

Biggins · 20-12-2011 3:51pm

jonnyfingers wrote: »

I'm just reading Stephen King's "The Stand". Seems fitting for this story.

"The White Plague" would be more fitting.
One scary book - more so because its possible and based on a mans revenge and tech skills.!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Plague

Plazaman · 20-12-2011 3:51pm

Ah, Scientists! What the most dangerous thing we can do that could possibly wipe out the planets population? Excellent, let's do it sure it could never fall into the wrong hands.

Seachmall · 20-12-2011 3:52pm

A friend posted that on Facebook with

"Researchers modify H5N1 so that it is viable for bio-warfare"

Someone responds with

"But it's only H5N1, it's not dangerous"

"Researchers modify H5N1 so that it is viable for bio-warfare" you ****ing idiot.

AnonoBoy · 20-12-2011 3:53pm

This couldn't have come at a better time. My neighbours have been blaring music at their fecking Christmas parties until 5 in the morning the past week.

I'll show them. :mad:

biko · 20-12-2011 3:55pm

The zombie apocalypse approaches...

hooradiation · 20-12-2011 4:17pm

Here is a less sensational, and therefore less likely to be read version of the story.
Or would people rather continue their demented shrieking about "idiot scientists"?

Seachmall · 20-12-2011 4:20pm

hooradiation wrote: »

Here is a less sensational, and therefore less likely to be read version of the story.

tl;dr

biko wrote: »

The zombie apocalypse approaches...

WTFOMG?!?!?!?!??!

hooradiation · 20-12-2011 4:27pm

Seachmall wrote: »

tl;dr

I am unsurprised at this predictable response.

Doc Ruby · 20-12-2011 4:30pm

spoofilyj wrote: »

As for releasing the receipe, thats a terrible idea, ever nut job will be trying to recreat it and hold the world to ransome or even worse release it for ****es and giggles!

Contagion like that isn't something even the nuttiest of the nutty mess around with - even the nazis refused to countenance its use. The problem is its really hard to keep it under control, and once you release it, you're as much of a victim as the next fella. Even if you have a vaccine, these things mutate constantly.

It would be like releasing an invisible serial killer who can float through walls.