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Originally posted by retroviralsounds
I know my employer recommends we do not wear our badges ANYWHERE in public. Despite our numerous contributions to the community, some still view us in a bad light just because we are brining dangerous bugs into their region.
I would not think the gov't would do this to these microbiologists... but most likely kidnappers, or foreign spies that know who they are, what they know, and what they have access to so they take them hostage, and when they find out we really don't know anything to their likings, and really have no way to smuggle any sort of BTA out of the lab, they kill them.
Originally posted by TruthMagnet
From what we understand - it is very unlikely for educated professionals like these to be killed in violent ways - so there is definately a statistical anomoly there.
However - how severe is this spike when viewed over a larger time period - and compared to other educated scientists - that would be an interesting question as well.
It has already been shown that Chemists/Chemical Engineers tend to die of disease up to 20 years earlier than their fellow scientists - one of the reasons I personally abandoned that as a career choice for myself.
I had already worked in enough Bio-Chem labs to know safety protocols were consistantly sacrificed for time and convenience...
My late wife was an MD and died of cancer at 37. Many horror stories related to that and things she observed with other physicians.
If nothing else immune systems of those who work in vicinity of dangerous biological substances are put to the test.
I know of at least one story firsthand of an assassinated WMD designer for Saddam Hussein, Gerald Bull. I imagine there are others in the Bio-Chem field.
Mike
Originally posted by mmiichael
My late wife was an MD and died of cancer at 37. Many horror stories related to that and things she observed with other physicians.
If nothing else immune systems of those who work in vicinity of dangerous biological substances are put to the test.
I know of at least one story firsthand of an assassinated WMD designer for Saddam Hussein, Gerald Bull. I imagine there are others in the Bio-Chem field.
Mike
Originally posted by spellbound
reply to post by karl 12
OMG, these good, studious boys knew too much.
Originally posted by TruthMagnet
I am so sorry to hear of your loss - I can only imagine the ethical dilemma a Doctor must be in between helping uplift humanity and having to endanger themselves in the process.
Thank you for your testimony to these dangers.
I fear that I turned away from the biological science to the computer sciences for very self serving reasons - one of which is that the systems I now design do not hurt anyone if they fail - only inconvenience commerce - but I am in awe of those who have and do serve their fellow man as Doctors and Nurses in the field.
They dug up the bodies of the 1918 flu victims because they wanted to see if the strain had any relation to the H5N1 variety. How else would virologists find out? Since they knew how the 1918 variety spread and how lethal it was it was important information. No conspiracy just people doing their job properly to ensure the fight against a deadly flu strain is effective.