Dutch Researcher Creates Virus That Could Wipe Out Over Half of The World's Population

[Crazy_Dude]

I live in Holland and my Biology teacher has yet to even mention this in class. Also I take "De Volkskrant" with a grain of salt. It usually isn't as bad as they make it out to be.

 

[Hookman]

Are his initials R.F by any chance? Damn you Walkin' Dude!

 

[Faulty Turmoil]

Guys make sure to read it first...

This quote is from the Huffington post article

"Fear over the possibility that this avian H5N1flu could become highly contagious among humans like the 1918 flu or the 2009 "swine" flu is the reason H5N1 is back in the news. As reported on NPR's Nov. 17 "Morning Edition," Rotterdam scientist Ron Fouchier described in a conference how his group succeeded in making bird flu highly contagious among ferrets. Ferrets may serve as a good animal model for potential spread among humans.."

It's more contagious to ferrets. Not people. FERRETS.

Besides they made it more contagious not more deadly...

Spoiler: Does this look like a person to you?

 

[Iron Mal]

The people who understand how vaccines and anti-viral medication are created will understand that this isn't exactly out of the ordinary and probaly read the title with a breief chuckle and ignored it shortly thereafter.

The people who's main understanding of how the development of how vaccines and viral work comes from movies like Outbreak are probably the ones who are sitting there right now looking up HAZMAT suits on Amazon and crying to themselves 'Why!? Why would they do this to us!?'.

 

[thespyisdead]

honestly... why does he even get paid to do such a monstrous deeds

 

[Ruwrak]

WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU MAKE THIS!?!

The same reason the USA has samples on the Plague and other diseases.
For scientific reasons of course.

 

[Bloedhoest]

All of my neighbours chickens died last week. And I've got this really bad cough. You guys think I'm in trouble?

 

[bluegate]

Good to see that there is still an abundance of stupid people out here on the internet, warms my heart really

No offence to anyone in particular, of course, just a general thing.

 

[Prince Regent]

why? why do people need to make these kinds of things?

WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU MAKE THIS!?!

Well, hard to tell if they don't publish. But I think you can safely say, that it has to do with research about the detailed mechanisms (maybe cellular, maybe molecullar) of a bird flu infection. Maybe it is also research about the pathobiochemistry of this virus or something related. It's allways difficult to say how far you have to go for something or whether you reach borders you shouldn't cross. I think without them publishing we will never be able to answer that questions in this case. One thing is for sure: If the media doesn't overplay it, then this technology is in the world now and won't just simply go away. But I think media exaggerated here, because they always do. Especialy in the field of biosciences.

Also:
The great corruptor is pleased. May Nurgle's Rot sweep the land!

On the Dutch news the researchers stated that a part of the experiment was to discover if the virus would be able to evolve so that it could spread between humans. It's reasearch on possible new diseases in the future and how we can prepare for them or prevent them altogether.

It should be obvious to everyone posting "WTF","ARE THEY MAD" etc, that this is usefull research.

 

[rutger5000]

Wow, a lot of bile towards the Dutch in the comments of that first link. Are the Dutch actually hated by a lot of people or is that just the internet being the internet?

OT: Ok, it says the research was to see how much it would take for an existing virus to mutate enough to kill us all. Fair enough. But I'd agree that it may not be a good idea to tell anyone else how to do it intentionally.

We legalize prostituting, gay marriage, soft drugs (but you'll most likely get away with hard drugs too), are the number one artificially-made-drugs-exporting country and wrote the 'Groningen-Protocole' a protocole about eutanasia. You could say we're rather controversial bunch of people.
OT: It isn't really a smart plan to let people know about it, but I completly trust the scientist behind it. I've got complete confidence in that they'll have taken appropriate safety measures, and that they have a good reason to mutate the virus.

 

[EvanJO]

There are already viral weapons that could wipe most of the planet out. Drug resistant strains of super smallpox were engineered during the cold war.

And someone could always figure out how to weaponize Ebola.

 

[Prince Regent]

*hides*

I know you guys smoke a hell of a lot of pot over there!

Off topic but I couldn't resist.

http://drugwarfacts.org/cms/?q=node/67

US teens smoke twice as much weed as Dutch teens do. (Oh and we also have way less drug adicts)

 

[Kopikatsu]

Wow, a lot of bile towards the Dutch in the comments of that first link. Are the Dutch actually hated by a lot of people or is that just the internet being the internet?

OT: Ok, it says the research was to see how much it would take for an existing virus to mutate enough to kill us all. Fair enough. But I'd agree that it may not be a good idea to tell anyone else how to do it intentionally.

We legalize prostituting, gay marriage, soft drugs (but you'll most likely get away with hard drugs too), are the number one artificially-made-drugs-exporting country and wrote the 'Groningen-Protocole' a protocole about eutanasia. You could say we're rather controversial bunch of people.
OT: It isn't really a smart plan to let people know about it, but I completly trust the scientist behind it. I've got complete confidence in that they'll have taken appropriate safety measures, and that they have a good reason to mutate the virus.

All we need is for a paramilitary group to assault the facility and steal a sample of the virus, but accidentally destroy one of the containers in the process.

Resident Evil! But with less zombies. Maybe.

 

[mionic]

WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU MAKE THIS!?!

FOR SCIENCE!

EDIT: Also, remember that this is a result of research on the H5N1 virus, Y'now, the one so many people freaked on about. What I do wonder though is why they would release information on how to make this virus to the public.

 

[mikey7339]

O god, it's the beginning of that Steven King book The Stand.

 

[Robert Ewing]

*hides*

I know you guys smoke a hell of a lot of pot over there!

Off topic but I couldn't resist.

http://drugwarfacts.org/cms/?q=node/67

US teens smoke twice as much weed as Dutch teens do. (Oh and we also have way less drug adicts)

Of course the US has more pot smokers. Their population 307 million. While the Nethelands has 16 million.

Surely that's just a rule of thumb logic.

 

[Corporal Yakob]

Right I'm off to convert the shed into a bio-warfare shelter and I suggest you all do the same!

 

[Terminate421]

Someone get Matt Damon! He's immune to it!