Super Flu that could wipe out half of the populaion

[Soapy]

Half the population?

Come on, science! We can do better that!

 

[Godsfireworks]

I wanna know why he was conducting this research. It doesn't sound like it could yield any results that better our understanding on the influenza virus. All 5 of his added mutations already occur in nature.

This is what happens when scientists get bored and have funding

they also save lives when they have funding...

 

[HisMagicTrick]

Yep, they should definitely keep the recipe to themselves.

 

[Ultra Lantern]

If the recipe gets into the wrong hands,we're all in big trouble.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

they also save lives when they have funding...

Yeah, they do

 

[Godsfireworks]

Yeah, they do

I interpreted your post as saying that funding was bad. Bad interpretation, sorry.

 

[Lasirius]

If the recipe gets into the wrong hands,we're all in big trouble.

I think it's already in the wrong hands; of that scientist bastard that came up with it.

 

[SuperSoldier985]

The virus has taken its first casualty:

Spoiler

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

I think it's already in the wrong hands; of that scientist bastard that came up with it.

If ever we needed an Israeli Mossad hit, it's on that guy. There's no scientific justification for creating something like that.

 

[Ultra Lantern]

The virus has taken its first casualty:

Spoiler

The End Is Near!
December 21,2012 is the end of the world.

 

[The Question]

I agree. In this day & age where terrorism has become a global threat, giving them the recipe to create a bio weapon that they can use for blackmailing or even genocide is just incomprehensible and nothing good can come out of it.

Since when is terrorism any more of a global threat than any other point in history. 9/11 and the London Subway Bombings aside, almost all terrorist activities have and continue to be based in the regions where the terrorists call home. 9/11 and the subway bombings were, in that sense, anomalous.

And even if they weren't, bio-weaponry is not easy. Bombs and, to a lesser extend, chemical weapons are the killing tools of choice for terrorism because they are not that difficult or expensive to make. Bio-weapons require very sofisticated laboratories and equipment and large groups of highly trained people to build weapons that will actually be effective and not just kill the people trying to make them. Most terrorist organizations are guerilla organizations, with relatively little money or resources, certainly not enough to have effective bio-weapon making facilities, and cetrainly lacking enough trained members to staff such facilities.

1) Why would someone create this?

To study how such a virus would mutate and develope, and to test how likely it is that such a mutation would happen in nature without human intervention.

2) Why would they even consider releasing the recipe?

They're not releasing a recipe, they're releasing their research, which would include the steps they took to create this which could be used as a recipe by parties who had access to laboratories that can produce viruses. The reason they are doing this is so that scientists from all around the world can work on ways to combat such a strain of super flu if it every came to be naturally.


Now, to clarify to everyone, I am not saying that there isn't a potential danger. There is. And I myself am somewhat uneasy with the idea of this research being conducted and being published. I'm just trying to keep things in perspective.

 

[enterthemadness]

The End Is Near!
December 21,2012 is the end of the world.

I wonder if this "mad scientist" is thinking "I'm a silly Billy, let me work on that zombie virus."

Flu virus+Rabies=steps Towards zombie virus. But it's more complicated than just mixing the two viruses.

 

[Superwoman Prime]

Before the first atomic bomb was dropped, some scientists feared it would ignite the atmosphere of earth and destroy all life. They dropped it anyway.

 

[Microchip]

I wonder if this "mad scientist" is thinking "I'm a silly Billy, let me work on that zombie virus."

Flu virus+Rabies=steps Towards zombie virus. But it's more complicated than just mixing the two viruses.

If he could work in the ferrets he's been testing on we could have zombie ferrets. With the flu. And that's how 50% of the population would die.

 

[Mace Bloodstone]

Before the first atomic bomb was dropped, some scientists feared it would ignite the atmosphere of earth and destroy all life. They dropped it anyway.

My kind of people!

 

[Speedball]

This happens every year. There's some "super virus" the media decides to blow out of proportion in late fall, we panic during the winter, then we move on in early spring.

 

[Wolfwood]

They tested this on ferrets? Oh my God, don't let SuperFerret see this!

 

[Venom75]

Humans are just determined to kill themselves aren't they? Again,for the being the smartest creatures on earth,we're certainly the stupidest.

 

[Quasimod0]

lol. This is supervillain stuff. What the heck?

 

[SuperFerret]

If he could work in the ferrets he's been testing on we could have zombie ferrets. With the flu. And that's how 50% of the population would die.

*angrily scratches "Zombie Flu Ferrets" off my list of World Domination plots*

They tested this on ferrets? Oh my God, don't let SuperFerret see this!

Too late.

Is it bad that I'd like this one named the Ferret Flu?

 

[PSYLENTGuardian]

I say they lock up that recipe and any traces of the virus inside a large bulletproof vault and bury it in cement, 100 stories deep, inside a hole.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

If the recipe gets into the wrong hands,we're all in big trouble.

Has anyone seen Lindsay Lohan recently?

December 21,2012 is the end of the world.

Wow. I've never heard that one. God, I can't wait until December 22nd of that year, so I never have to read that date on the internet again.

 

[Duke]

The End Is Near!
December 21,2012 is the end of the world.

Ignorance is bliss.

 

[John McGuirk]

Contagion, the movie, in real life form.

 

[CJ]

Why on earth would someone want to CREATE a deadly virus? How can someone be that.. incredibly stupid?

As someone else said, this is supervillain stuff.