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JonB
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PostPosted: 16:20 - 18 Jan 2007    Post subject: Lethal Secrets of 1918 Spanish flu virus. Reply with quote
https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6271833.stm

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The lungs of infected monkeys were destroyed in just days as their immune systems went into overdrive after a Canadian laboratory rebuilt the virus.

Writing in the journal Nature, they reported that the results were startling. Symptoms appeared within 24 hours of exposure to the virus, and the subsequent destruction of lung tissue was so widespread that, had the monkeys not been put to sleep a few days later, they would literally have drowned in their own blood.


Absolutely shocking. A really interesting read that I stumbled upon. I wonder if H5N1, will turn out to be as bad. Although we haven't really heard much of that virus recently?
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Annabella
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PostPosted: 20:34 - 18 Jan 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
I know it isn't, but it reads very similarly to a quote from "Biohazard" which is more recent, and far far more scary.

Interesting find Jon - thanks Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 20:48 - 18 Jan 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Jon B wrote:
quote] I wonder if H5N1, will turn out to be as bad. Although we haven't really heard much of that virus recently?


There are still frequent cases out in the Far East - I think there was one this week in Japan with 4,000 chickens dying from H5N1. I think something like 4 people this year have also died. It's only a matter of time before it mutates and spreads human to human. I think the early scaremongering when it first arose means that people are no longer scared of the pandemic warnings.

When it does start spreading human to human the brown stuff is really going to hit the proverbial fan. Get ready for bare supermarket shelves and panic.
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colin1
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PostPosted: 22:17 - 18 Jan 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
so what will your preparations involve ?
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PostPosted: 22:20 - 18 Jan 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
colin1 wrote:
so what will your preparations involve ?


It sounds extreme but better safe than sorry - stock up with tinned/frozen foods and lots of drinking water. Banning visitors as well. Also be prepared not to leave the house for a while. I think this will have a bigger impact than most people expect.

Hopefully it will blow over as if nothing has happened, but better to be prepared for the worst.
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JonB
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PostPosted: 08:22 - 19 Jan 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
I don't want to sound like a bit of a paranoid twat, but my parents already have about 60 tins of beans stocked up. No kidding.

If this turned out to be super contagious, then i'd be staying with my parents in that house, with the TV on until it passed.
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PostPosted: 20:24 - 20 Jan 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Loads of people locked in a house with nothing to eat but baked beans? I'll take my chances with the virus Shocked
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PostPosted: 20:45 - 20 Jan 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Wotcha.

This bit made me think

""Scientists who recreated "Spanish flu" - the 1918 virus which killed up to 50m people - have witnessed its remarkable killing power first hand.""

Great. A virus which has been extinct since 1918, so some clever bugger recreates it. What's the betting that this virus somehow "gets into the wrong hands".
I can think of a few so called terrorist organisations that would love some of that stuff - and don't forget, they ain't bothered about getting killed in order to deliver the stuff to us infidels.

Smallpox or Spanish flu - - - take yer pick Laughing
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PostPosted: 20:47 - 20 Jan 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Lone-Wolf wrote:
I can think of a few so called terrorist organisations that would love some of that stuff - and don't forget, they ain't bothered about getting killed in order to deliver the stuff to us infidels.


Just find a suitable body. They used one buried in permafrost for the last ~90 years.

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