Biological Warfair/Virus

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Now I got to thinking. What Virus do you think will wipe us out? man-made or natural virus. H-5 Bird virus or Biological Diseases with no cures. What virus do you think will wipe us out?

 

[Mr0llivand3r]

i think that the cancer virus will mutate and become airborne.

either that or the Jonas Brothers get mutated into a virus and is broadcast on all airwaves, infecting the minds of listeners and making them die from a combination of brain hemorrhage, foaming at the mouth, and gayness

 

[AntiAntagonist]

First: "Warfare"

On topic:
Depends, particularly if you are recognizing a difference between "Virus" and "Biological Agent".

I assume the hypothetical case would fit "natural" more easily. Man-made viruses are engineered with the intent that the owner won't die, or the spread can be contained. That means limitations.

The question posed also assumes that utter destruction will happen. While a large outbreak is EXTREMELY likely, similar to smallpox back in the day it means many still live on.

 

[Erana]

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Can you seriously do that?! Sweet!
/sarcasm
I don't understand the purpose of doing that. Why not try rationalizing with people, rather than threatening with an attempt at corporal punishment?
Sorry, I've had a rough night. I'm a bit snippy, hence the dramatic rise in my posts' sarcasm content.

i think that the cancer virus will mutate and become airborne.

either that or the Jonas Brothers get mutated into a virus and is broadcast on all airwaves, infecting the minds of listeners and making them die from a combination of brain hemorrhage, foaming at the mouth, and gayness

Considering that you also posted about the Jonas Brothers, I am quickly led to assume that you were abusing homosexuality. Please inform me if this is true or not; my inner censor is getting fidgety.

As for the thread itself, I have to say that my mother recieved a small Christmas gift from one of her patients. This patient has one of those hospital superbugs, so we decided to toss the thing, even though it made us feel like a couple of jerks.
I do think its gonna be either the bugs we breed in hospitals, or we're going to have an accident with one of our several containers of multiple pandemic-inducing biological weapons that, collectively, could kill all humans hundreds of times over.

 

[vede]

Ha, "Warfair."

Sounds fun, and deadly!

As for a virus killing us all, I dunno.

 

[Incompl te]

what bout the virus/nature thing in the movie "The Happening". That would certaintly doom humanittt... (freezes and chokes self with mouse cable)

 

[orifice]

Various governments have labs that create engineered viruses,(definitely the US and the UK) some of these viruses are race specific others are indescriminate. All it would take is one disgruntled or unstable employee to end the world!

 

[Laughing Man]

It won't be anything man made for the intention of bio warfare. Those agents are notoriously difficult to create, hard to store without killing them and generally aren't anywhere near as effective at killing people as simply dropping a high yield thermonuclear device on them would be.

The biggest killers to date have been variants of the flu virus chances are the next big one will be a naturally occurring variant of the flu virus.

 

[Crystal Cuckoo]

When the bird flu mutates into something worse...
I reckon we'll all die by viruses that have mutated to epic proportions.
And we'll be the ones to blame.
Whenever you take antibiotics, the virus is normally destroyed. But in those one-in-a-million cases, that virus will mutate into something stronger, and you'll need stronger antibiotics to repress it. Then the whole process will continue until you can't engineer a better cure, and everyone dies.
Or we could be all infected by a supernatural/alien disease for which we have no immune system for, kinda like what the common cold did to the new world.

 

[CoverYourHead]

I think it will be a flesh-eating bacteria that eats out our organs before it eats our skin or visible flesh, making it hard to see and quite fatal. Flesh eating bacteria freak me out.

 

[mattttherman3]

Dear me, I saw the title ans thought that this would be about using biological wepons in battle, guess not. Nothing will wipe us out ever, unless the sun burns out tomorrow.

 

[Avida]

Something incredibly infectious, showing no obvious symptoms and not harming the carrier, it would destroy peoples fertility only. Hopefully effects would not kick in for 6-8 years after infection.

 

[EXPLICITasian]

How's about the mad-made virus in the book/movie "The Stand" by Stephen King? Sure only 99% of us would actually die, but the final 1% would fight each other simply because we're bored

 

[the monopoly guy]

i think that the cancer virus will mutate and become airborne.

Kidding? Please be kidding. You're kidding right.

 

[stompy]

Whenever you take antibiotics, the virus is normally destroyed.

I think you need to reread the roles of antibiotics, and how they don't affect viruses.

 

[Mr0llivand3r]

i think that the cancer virus will mutate and become airborne.

Kidding? Please be kidding. You're kidding right.

of course i'm kidding

 

[Marv21]

i think that the cancer virus will mutate and become airborne.

either that or the Jonas Brothers get mutated into a virus and is broadcast on all airwaves, infecting the minds of listeners and making them die from a combination of brain hemorrhage, foaming at the mouth, and gayness

They already have become a virus, thats why Itunes quarentine the Jonas brothers and no one can buy their music.

 

[Mr0llivand3r]

i think that the cancer virus will mutate and become airborne.

either that or the Jonas Brothers get mutated into a virus and is broadcast on all airwaves, infecting the minds of listeners and making them die from a combination of brain hemorrhage, foaming at the mouth, and gayness

They already have become a virus, thats why Itunes quarentine the Jonas brothers and no one can buy their music.

thank Christ lol

 

[darkless]

The Flu/common cold it as no cure just shots to slow it down it evolves to fast to be cured

 

[Laughing Man]

Whenever you take antibiotics, the virus is normally destroyed. But in those one-in-a-million cases, that virus will mutate into something stronger, and you'll need stronger antibiotics to repress it.

LOL prescribing antibiotics to cure viral infections is one of the reason why we have super bugs. You see most people have a whole host of bacterial agents on them most of the time. For the most part they are kept in check by your own immune system and usually never bother you. Generally issues occur when one of bacteria that lives on one part of your body gets access to another part of your body where it shouldn't normally be. I.e MRSA is a good example, it lives on your skin is kept in check by a healthy immune system. Now most people in hospital haven't got a healthy immune system so if you give MRSA access to a cut or injury that's when things get out of hand.

Anyway back to the point. These bacteria have always been there and as a result have always been there whilst we have been over prescribing antibiotics to cure conditions that never needed antibiotics to start with. The issue is two fold as well.

You see most people go to the doctor and say they are ill. Now the situation works more or less the same weather you have something that can be cured with antibiotics or not. Anyway yeah I am ill the doctor goes okay have a two week course of Amoxicillin. So you start taking the drug and after ten days you're feeling better and thinking I don't need this anymore. Throw the rest away and that's that. Nope all you've done is weakened the bacteria and instead of killing it off and having been done with it you've shown it what it needs to fight. So evolution takes over. Some bacteria will get picked off by your own immune system others will come back but cause no issue, some will come back and cause issue and some will develop immunity to the thing you used to try and kill it.

The Flu/common cold it as no cure just shots to slow it down it evolves to fast to be cured

Indeed it also has to do with the fact that a virus requires the host cell to replicate itself. Any anti viral drug would need to kill the virus whilst leaving the host cell unaffected. Quite a difficult task to achieve. In the case of the cold and flu it just wouldn't be worth the effort. Mind you anti virals do exist for Influenzavirus A and B