They're Baaaaaaaaaaack!!!

[Cancel 2016.2]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-...-be-five-steps-from-pandemic-study-finds.html

Bird flu!!! OMG!!!!!

Swine flu!!! OMG!!!!

look out...

Five genetic tweaks made a deadly strain of bird flu that can infect humans spread more easily, according to a study that the U.S. government had first sought to censor on concerns it could be used by bioterrorists.

A similar study led by Yoshihiro Kawaoka at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, which was also delayed, was published in the journal Nature in May. That showed how H5N1 could become highly transmissible by mixing with the H1N1 virus that sparked the 2009 swine flu pandemic.

The controversy over the studies triggered a new U.S. government policy for conducting or funding research that could potentially be used for harm, Anthony S. Fauci, the director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Francis S. Collins, the director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, wrote in an accompanying article.

The benefits of the research “far outweigh the risks of the nefarious use of this information,” Fauci said on the conference call. “Being in the free and open literature would make it much more easy to get a lot of the good guys involved than the risk of getting the rare bad guy involved.”

Is it me or is the bolded a tad arrogant/ignorant? They basically state 'bio weapon here'... but knowing that it can mutate benefits us how? there have been less than a 1000 total deaths from the two combined (to my knowledge). Yet genetically tweaking and playing with the viruses we now know that creating bio weapons from them are possible. More Tamiflu!!! (I wonder who benefits from this)

 

[Billy the Great Khan]

Yawn. Wake me when its Ebola or something actually dangerous.