2004 - POSSIBLE ORIGIN OF THE 2009 VIRUS?

From newscientist.com 06 October 2004


Virulent 1918 flu genes resurrected

Deadly genes from the human influenza virus which caused the 1918 pandemic have been resurrected by scientists in an attempt to understand what made the strain so virulent.

The "Spanish flu" - which may have killed as many as 50 million people in the great pandemic - owed its deadliness largely to one of its surface proteins, say the researchers.

They have tested reconstructed viruses equipped with the protein and warn that it might one day return. If it does, anyone born after 1918 will have virtually no immunity.

Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, US, and colleagues have reconstructed five of the eight genes of the 1918 virus, from fragments in victims buried in permafrost, and from clinical samples.

They reconstructed the two surface proteins - haemagglutinin (H) and neuraminidase (N) - from the 1918 flu strain, and substituted them for the H and N of current flu strains from mice and humans.

Have you read this about 2009 virus?

The 1918 H even made a virus that normally kills mice even more lethal. In every case, the 1918 hybrid replicated more, invaded the deeper tissues of the mouse lungs, and caused nastier lesions.

It's possibe that this virus have spread out from this experiment?
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Ha ha ha ha. You're not in on it are you. Let me explain it to you. Wait, there is a knock on the door. I feel something tightening around my neck. Aiyee!

Good bye cruel world.

Originally posted by son of total newbie
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Ha ha ha ha. You're not in on it are you. Let me explain it to you. Wait, there is a knock on the door. I feel something tightening around my neck. Aiyee!

Good bye cruel world.

Can you prove it's not?
Can you say it's not possible?