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Dutch Researcher Creates A Super-Influenza Virus With The Potential To Kill Half the World’s Population

Posted by Good German on November 30, 2011

H5N1 VirusesVia DoctorTipster.com:

A Dutch researcher has created a virus with the potential to kill half of the planet’s population. Now, researchers and experts in bioterrorism debate whether it is a good idea to publish the virus creation ”recipe”. However, several voices argue that such research should have not happened in the first place.

The virus is a strain of avian influenza H5N1 genetically modified to be extremely contagious. It was created by researcher Ron Fouchier of the Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Netherlands. The work was first presented at a conference dedicated to influenza, that took place in September in Malta.

Avian influenza emerged in Asia about 10 years ago. Since then there were fewer than 600 infection cases reported in humans. On the other hand, Fouchier’s genetically modified strain is extremely contagious and dangerous, killing about 50% of infected patients. The former strain did not represent a global threat, as transmission from human to human is rare. Or, at least, it was before Fouchier genetically modified it.

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  • Dueyv9

    Well, isn’t that special.

  • Anonymous

    Granted it’s a scary thing to have around, but isn’t it better that someone learns about how to defeat something like this in a lab now as opposed to when it happens out here? Besides, he’s a Dutchman what could go wrong?

  • Anonymous

    I’m so proud to be of Dutch heritage. Or I would be if the headline ended with “and holds the world ransom”

    Actually no, I’d be even more proud if he just let the virus go for the lulz.

  • Anonymous

    Full Disclosure.

  • trish

    Why would you WANT to genetically modify it to be contagious?!  Niet lekker!

  • DeepCough

    I get the feeling this was gonna happen sooner or later–you know, “Sustainable Development” and all.

  • Simiantongue

    “Besides, he’s a Dutchman what could go wrong?”

    Sabotage, etymology- It may have derived from the Netherlands in the 15th century when workers would throw their sabots (wooden shoes) into the wooden gears of the textile looms to break the cogs, fearing the automated machines would render the human workers obsolete.

    Dutch have a rep I guess. I knew that Star Trek education would come in handy some day. 

  • Dr K

    It’s okay we’ll just send Bruce Willis back in time to find the 12 Monkeys.

  • Markymark

    And let me guess only one person( sorry , corporation ) holds the cure to it.  My first question would be who were these so called ‘patients’. I seriously doubt they were volunteers.  Second the surviving members of the Japanese Unit 731 would be proud.  Someone achieved what they wanted to create 60 years ago.  And What perfect timing, With OWS crowds getting bigger they can now be handled swiftly and decisively.  Aint there already some kind of flu bug going around most of those camps anyway. 

  • Anonymous

    We made slavery a thing too. umad?

    Fucking up the world for profit ever since we realized how to do it.

  • Anonymous

    We made slavery a thing too. umad?

    Fucking up the world for profit ever since we realized how to do it.

  • again, really?

    your not a very interesting troll, just quit already

  • Anonymous

    Honest opinion lady. I want to see mankind reduced to sobbing wrecks pleading for death.

    We all have our kinks.

  • Ewop07

    You mean like HIV and AIDS?

  • Clever Screenname

    You first.  

  • http://hormeticminds.blogspot.com/ Chaorder Gradient

    he was trolling?

  • It’s inevitable

    I say turn it loose, the environment is in trouble, and radical changes are needed to save mankind. You will either die, which doesn’t seem so bad the way things are looking, or live and have a lot more room, cleaner air to breath, and less polluted water. Kind of like a lottery.

  • Camron Wiltshire

    I remember hearing about this discovery on infowars a little more than a week ago
    http://www.infowars.com/scientists-weaponize-bird-flu-consider-releasing-results-to-create-bioweapon/

    Do you guys remember the scientist (Joseph Moshe) who was picked up in the middle of LA traffic by a swat team for his connection to exposing Baxter Pharmaceutical’s own tinkering with pandora’s box about a year plus ago?  

    The Ukraine Flu epidemic etc, from our recent past, it seems as though they are leaking the reality of these superbugs by and by, perhaps predictive programming?  Combining 5 different resistant mutations to every known drug for Bird Flu is so incomprehenisibly stupid and fucked.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foXnGJy39f0  << What do you think of this video?

    And here is a little more from this recent episode in potential cataclysmic bioterrorism.

    http://www.disinfo.com/2009/11/spanish-doctor-reveals-important-information-about-swine-flu/

  • Anonymous

    All things must end. So, you whenever.

  • trish

    the biocentric in me agrees, wipe us out. but i still cling to my feeble hope that humanity will evolve  :(

  • Monkey See Monkey Do

    That’s what the elites are planning anyway. Now they have machines that they can use to replace the human machine model (ie: assembly lines, slavery).

  • Lmnop_nis

    Captain Tripps here we come. Next stop the Stand.

  • Rex Vestri
  • Rex Vestri
  • Anonymous

    I hate you scumbags that say things in favor of unleashing a deadly virus that will kill millions, maybe billions.

    FUCK YOU you sick, twisted little sack of shit. KILL YOURSELF FIRST -AND YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS (if you have any)

  • Anonymous

    Heh, and I say KILL YOURSELF first and well first your family and friends and then yourself. 

  • Anonymous

    In favor of mass genocide eh? You’re a wonderful, ethical human being.

  • FreddyMac

    fuck it, release it, humans are a plague, and animals are worth more, we should be the ones who are made extinct

  • Anonymous

    You’re going to be, in all likely hood, one of the dying pieces of crap. Hush now and go back to listening to Megadeath or whatever it is you wank to

  • undomesticated primate

    eye spy useful idiots unwittingly helping the elite by giving into total cynicism and apathy and letting their spirits be broken. methinks some agent provocateurs are sure to be here in the mix as well (though some might be unaware of their position)

  • Anarchy Pony

    Yeah, because human lives are totally worth so much more than every other living thing on earth. Get over yourself.

  • Anarchy Pony

    It’s only a matter of time before one of these things gets out, or, an actual natural plague gets on the move, and the higher the human population gets, the more likely a naturally evolved pandemic will start running wild.

  • Anarchy Pony

    It’s only a matter of time before one of these things gets out, or, an actual natural plague gets on the move, and the higher the human population gets, the more likely a naturally evolved pandemic will start running wild.

  • Are you serious

    I would have to say YES! Yes, we are worth much more than every other living thing on earth. WTF were you thinking when you wrote that? 

    WE ARE SUPERIOR BEINGS, period. 

    When cows make it to the moon, ill give what you said a second thought.. Get over yourself.

  • Anonymous

    I’m happy to agree with you that You aren’t worth more than a rat and if you have children and a wife, they aren’t either.

    If there is a god (doubt it but) if there is a god people like you are the reason it doesn’t talk to us anymore.

     

  • Andrew

    We (humans, like you) are animals.

  • http://www.facebook.com/burnsroadie138 Travis Burns

    DESTROY THIS PLANET!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/burnsroadie138 Travis Burns

    DESTROY THIS PLANET!!

  • It;s inevitable

    Hate me all you want hypocrite, it won’t put the genie back in the bottle.

  • trish

    haha, no.

  • Anonymous

     I don’t see how I’m being hypocritical….?

    Look, wanting it to happen and believing it will inevitably happen, two different.. ya know.

  • Anonymous

    Only the ‘biocentric’ part of you, you said. I know. 

  • Gioscolase

    I WILL SURVIVE OOHHH OHHHH!!! 

  • Haystack

    I’d rather die of the virus than watch that movie again. 

  • http://hostpapacoupon.co/ Coupon

    Because you know it’s always a good idea to create something that can kill half the world’s population.

  • It’s inevitable

    If it was let loose now, we would all have an equal chance.

  • Anonymous

    Imagine that. I will die.

    I’m stunned.

  • Anonymous

    Ah life! No one makes it out alive. 

  • BigRed125

    Dude I think somebody needs to take a chill pill.  Everyone has a right to their ideas and opinions…but telling people to go kill themselves and calling them scumbags, because they conflict with your own opinions is just childish.  Grow up.  Oh also everyone lives and everyone dies.  Its a fact.  It will happen sooner or later.  If this wipes out half the human population….well the planet was just saved because its become overpopulated.  Overpopulation puts out more carbon dioxide than the planet can handle.  For the longest time our planets population was on in the millions (around 250 million).  With medical, agricultural, and other advances our population as of today is estimated to be somewhere around 7 BILLION.  Thats why some of these people are saying this.  Not because they want the meaningless death of billions of people, but because if we don’t thin out the heard now our planet, our home is gonna go to hell.

  • BigRed125

    Dude I think somebody needs to take a chill pill.  Everyone has a right to their ideas and opinions…but telling people to go kill themselves and calling them scumbags, because they conflict with your own opinions is just childish.  Grow up.  Oh also everyone lives and everyone dies.  Its a fact.  It will happen sooner or later.  If this wipes out half the human population….well the planet was just saved because its become overpopulated.  Overpopulation puts out more carbon dioxide than the planet can handle.  For the longest time our planets population was on in the millions (around 250 million).  With medical, agricultural, and other advances our population as of today is estimated to be somewhere around 7 BILLION.  Thats why some of these people are saying this.  Not because they want the meaningless death of billions of people, but because if we don’t thin out the heard now our planet, our home is gonna go to hell.

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