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New strain of 'Killer Flu' created in Chinese lab "could kill millions globally"
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[quote:The Tauremini:MV8yMjIzNzc5XzM3NjkyMjY3Xzk5QkU0MTBB] I'm an optimist at heart, but I sometimes worry about the Murphy's Law factor (what can go wrong eventually will go wrong). Just as the A-bomb was originally an experiment converted into a one-nation-use "war-ender", up to 9 countries now have the A-bomb and some are now threatening to use this weapon preemptively. That means that in a matter of time, it will be. In many ways, deadly diseases like the one created in this Chinese lab are much worse, because if it is released somehow and manages to spread (i.e, via an international airport) the damage is [b]infinite [/b]in scale. No diseases like this should [b]ever [/b]be created. [/quote]
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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.
Lord May of Oxford, a former government chief scientist and past president of the Royal Society, denounced the study published today in the journal Science as doing nothing to further the understanding and prevention of flu pandemics.
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