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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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They can discuss all they want but it won't work as a weapon in natural form. It is not transmissible enough to be a widespread threat in non-tropical advanced industrial societies.
Trying to make it a weapon would requires several thousands of hours of work at least in a very sophisticated lab. The work would very difficult physically, logistically and technically. Even then it would not be likely to succeed. Possible ...maaaaybe.
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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The key problem is that whatever measures one took to make the virus more transmissible would very likely change it's ability to target endothelial cells. Endothelial cell targeting is the reason Ebola is so deadly.
The endothelium is the thin layer of cells that lines the interior surface of blood vessels and lymphatic vessels. Ebola has specific molecules that bind to the surface of these cells. Whatever you do to the surface of the virus to make it more durable is likely to change the binding properties.
It takes some pretty dedicated expertise to do something like this..Not Sure these type of people would readily work for ISIS. The work itself would be physically demanding due to hazmat suits, tedious, exacting and dangerous. Testing and production (with humans as would be needed) would be soul destroying and macabre. Not the kind of thing many well educated biochemists would be willing or able to do.
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crankster
Trad climber
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Hey, looney tune right wingers, what happened to your ebola crisis???????
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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So some nitwit presented to one of the wife's cohorts and demanded the Ebola vaccine.
She was informed that no such thing exists for the general public yet. When it was suggested
that she get the flu vaccine, if only for the safety of her fetus, her reply was:
"I don't believe in the flu vaccine."
DOH!
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Ebola is very real!
be sure to wash ur hands and keep clean!
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crankster
Trad climber
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Nov 19, 2014 - 06:32pm PT
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Sep 30, 2014 - 08:13pm PT
Oh RJ, im so glad you enlightened us on the increased intellect of the electorate. We all know Romney would be inviting all manner of diseased immigrants with an even more robust open borders policy than the current mob boss. Dumbass, wasn't he ? Im sure glad we've got Barack, Harry and the dethroned queen Nancy looking out for us, aren't you?
Hey, Rick, what the heck happened to your ebola crisis???? What would Romney do to save us?????
TGT, where's all the scary graphs and video???? Tioga?? Sketchy??
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 22, 2016 - 08:28pm PT
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Ebola is old news! Apparently Zika is now well established in Brownsville, Tejas. I also read
the other day that epidemiologists have identified 55 viruses ripe for causing the next
pandemic. YGD!
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