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Dutch Scientists Develop Airborne H5N1 (Flu)

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  • #32
    Stiffler2
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,536 ✭✭✭Stiffler2


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


    Good Idea IMO - too many of us


  • #33
    LK_Dave
    Closed Accounts Posts: 376 ✭✭LK_Dave


    Conor108 wrote: »
    How did he drive to work each morning without stopping and thinking "Wait wtf am I doing?!"

    Being Dutch he probably cycled!!!


  • #34
    Raging_Ninja
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,717 ✭✭✭Raging_Ninja


    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.


  • #35
    Doom
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    Banking crisis solved.....


  • #36
    orourkeda
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    Is it worse than diarrhoea?


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  • #37
    Dotrel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,980 ✭✭✭Dotrel


    orourkeda wrote: »
    Is it worse than diarrhoea?

    Yes. It's even worse than Chris Rea.


  • #38
    dr gonzo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,676 ✭✭✭dr gonzo


    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.****.


  • #39
    AnonoBoy
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    Can't see anything going wrong at all with this.


  • #40
    John Doe1
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    They should release it just once for the craic :D


  • #41
    Kaneda_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 318 ✭✭Kaneda_


    They should release it in offaly


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  • #42
    yermanoffthetv
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 625 ✭✭✭yermanoffthetv


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




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




  • #43
    The Outside Agency
    Closed Accounts Posts: 235 ✭✭The Outside Agency


    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


  • #44
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    release the hounds! virus!


  • #45
    The Outside Agency
    Closed Accounts Posts: 235 ✭✭The Outside Agency


    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.


  • #46
    jonnyfingers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,333 ✭✭✭jonnyfingers


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


  • #47
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


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


  • #48
    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,331 ✭✭✭RichieC


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


  • #49
    The Outside Agency
    Closed Accounts Posts: 235 ✭✭The Outside Agency


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


  • #50
    Biggins
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    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


  • #51
    Plazaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,037 ✭✭✭Plazaman


    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.


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  • #52
    Seachmall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    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.


  • #53
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    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:


  • #54
    biko
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    The zombie apocalypse approaches...


  • #55
    hooradiation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,922 ✭✭✭hooradiation


    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"?


  • #56
    Seachmall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    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?!?!?!?!??!


  • #57
    hooradiation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,922 ✭✭✭hooradiation


    Seachmall wrote: »
    tl;dr

    I am unsurprised at this predictable response.


  • #58
    Doc Ruby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,956 ✭✭✭Doc Ruby


    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.


  • #59
    Seachmall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    hooradiation wrote: »
    I am unsurprised at this predictable response.

    And again I'm forced to use this image...


  • #60
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Only in America..


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  • #61
    hooradiation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,922 ✭✭✭hooradiation


    Seachmall wrote: »
    And again I'm forced to use this image...

    I see your image macro and raise you a youtube clip.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bhsKlz8xkg


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