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Chinese researchers for creating new strains of influenza virus

PrecusorPrecusor Member UncommonPosts: 3,589
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Senior scientists have criticised the “appalling irresponsibility” of researchers in China who have deliberately created new strains of influenza virus in a veterinary laboratory.

They warned there is a danger that the new viral strains created by mixing bird-flu virus with human influenza could escape from the laboratory to cause a global pandemic killing millions of people.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/appalling-irresponsibility-senior-scientists-attack-chinese-researchers-for-creating-new-strains-of-influenza-virus-in-veterinary-laboratory-8601658.html

That's some scary stuff right there...

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  • BloortBloort Member Posts: 6
    That is really alarming.... thanks for the info then
  • anemoanemo Member RarePosts: 1,903
    Our scientists play with scarier bacteria/viruses all the time.

    Practice doesn't make perfect, practice makes permanent.

    "At one point technology meant making tech that could get to the moon, now it means making tech that could get you a taxi."

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