Nothing can possibly go wrong.......

[James Deuce]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6271833.stm

[bell]

Geez, if they'd waited a bit they could've tested it on Saddam Hussein and a few of his mates eh......

[Karma]

And they all thought the commies were gonna kill us?

Might dig out that copy of Twelve Monkeys again...

[yungatart]

I hope you are right Jim... time will tell, I suppose.

[Laava]

Canadians? Monkeys? Professor Bunsen Honeydew? Bring it on, the world needs to defrag!

[MyGSXF]

poor bloody monkeys.... :angry:

why don't they test these things on the fucking lowlife raping, murdering scum overflowing the prison systems.. & leave the poor defenceless animals alone!!!!!?? :argh:

[Crasherfromwayback]

Tough one that sort of stuff. Kinda like a rock and a hard place though right?

While we need to discover cures to things like that, and understand why it was as powerful and uncontrollable (date aside) as it was...are we tampering with nature too much?

I was into the whole 'punk' movement as a youth....and with that scene went the anti vivisection brigade. But I could never agree with that side of it, as to me (yes selfish as it is) humans can pull rank for a reason, and that reason is we're (generally speaking) always looking for ways to survive.

I don't condone spraying hairspray into a helpless animals eyes to see if it blinds us....but.....

[Lou Girardin]

Geez, if they'd waited a bit they could've tested it on Saddam Hussein and a few of his mates eh......

Pandora's box would have nothing on this idea.

[Lou Girardin]

Geez, if they'd waited a bit they could've tested it on Saddam Hussein and a few of his mates eh......

Pandora's box would have nothing on this idea.
I guess you're too young to know anything of what happened in 1918.

[SixPackBack]

Pandora's box would have nothing on this idea.
I guess you're too young to know anything of what happened in 1918.


Lou remembers it well.

[Squeak the Rat]

Might dig out that copy of Twelve Monkeys again...

I was thinking 28 Days Later.......

Oh well, I don't mind as long as it's only earmarked for military purposes :bye:

[MacD]

Pandora's box would have nothing on this idea.
I guess you're too young to know anything of what happened in 1918.

Well I'm not *that* old (OK, well maybe - but we breed slowly in my family) but my Grandfather died of the 1918 flu. He was fit, healthy and in his early 20s, and my mother was just a few months old at the time. As the article points out, people literally drowned in their own body fluids, not a nice experience I imagine.

That was one of the features of the virus, it killed young healthy people, which is unusual for influenza. It's been recognised for a while that it was the host (immune) response that did the damage, which is one of the reasons why health authorities really are concerned about the possibility of "bird-flu" causing a pandemic if human-human transmission arises.

[idleidolidyll]

Geez, if they'd waited a bit they could've tested it on Saddam Hussein and a few of his mates eh......

It'd be better to test it on Bush, Cheney and Rummy. Without Amerika Saddam would have been nothing.

[El Dopa]

one of the reasons why health authorities really are concerned about the possibility of "bird-flu" causing a pandemic if human-human transmission arises.

If H5N1 mutates into a form that is easily transmissible between humans, and in doing so maintains lethality, we really are fucked, '28 days later/12 monkeys' stylee.