MERS, AIDS, the Asian carp and the jet age

[Ancalagon44]

Well yea, I mean you cant spread lung cancer with a 747 can you? Or can you? :hmm:

If you load up a 747 with a combination of pesticides and asbestos, and then have it drop its load over a city, sure you can spread lung cancer with a 747.

 

[bradly1101]

Fortunately for everyone, it appears that you don't get MERS from a handshake or from sitting next to someone on a plane. The CDC has said the man who supposedly contracted MERS from 2 short business meetings does NOT have MERS but instead had a false positive which further testing negated.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/me...llinois-man-didnt-have-mers-after-all-n116436

Whew!

 

[MongGrel]

I'm just expecting Ebola to eventually mutate and we'll have 12 Monkeys someday.

That or someone to figure out how to make water solid and the Cat's Cradle thing.

 

[Northern Lawn]

I'm just expecting Ebola to eventually mutate and we'll have 12 Monkeys someday.

That or someone to figure out how to make water solid and the Cat's Cradle thing.

I'd bet everything I own that that mutation already exists in a lab somewhere, probably multiple labs.

 

[bradly1101]

There have been five great extinction events in earth's past. In Elizabeth Kolbert's amazing book "The Sixth Extinction" she laid out a compelling case that humans are causing the sixth one now. Indeed she and many other scientists believe we have left the Holocene and entered the 'Anthropocene' since humans have altered the earth so radically (extinction, climate, geography, geology ...) that we're dooming the planet and ourselves.

http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Sixth_Extinction.html?id=YODWAgAAQBAJ

 

[shira]

I'm just expecting Ebola to eventually mutate and we'll have 12 Monkeys someday.

That or someone to figure out how to make water solid and the Cat's Cradle thing.

Ice-nine, I think.

 

[werepossum]

Fortunately for everyone, it appears that you don't get MERS from a handshake or from sitting next to someone on a plane. The CDC has said the man who supposedly contracted MERS from 2 short business meetings does NOT have MERS but instead had a false positive which further testing negated.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/me...llinois-man-didnt-have-mers-after-all-n116436

That just underscores the true modern epidemic - the false positive!