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- FrEaK40, on 08/18/2008, -0/+36Must bring your own weapons. Safety not guaranteed. I have only done this once before.
- inactive, on 08/18/2008, -1/+30My great great grandfather caught this and lived, so does that mean I'm immune to it too? I hope so, because I plan to time travel to 1918 next week, and I just want to know if I should take any precautions.
- solid12345, on 08/18/2008, -0/+23Boy wouldn't it have sucked to survive the great war only to be taken out by the flu?
- ToddsSpleen, on 08/18/2008, -0/+21Well, as it turns out, you ARE your great great grandfather, so you should be OK. Good luck with the time travel, see you last week.
- HeatVision, on 08/18/2008, -2/+18"Good news, everyone! We've resurrected the antibodies from the influenza pandemic of 1918! Let's see if it still works..."
- Vosona, on 08/18/2008, -0/+15I'm moving to Madagascar.
- JerichoSam, on 08/17/2008, -3/+15My great-grandfather died in this pandemic, so this story is of particular interest. Thanks for sharing!
- BDOUG, on 08/18/2008, -0/+10Too bad. We're way overdue for an equally distributed thinning of the herd.
- TheCatsPants, on 08/18/2008, -0/+9They've never made any claims to the otherwise. Why do you think everyone got worked up about SARS?
- wastelander, on 08/18/2008, -0/+9In 1918? Not likely. At the time they didn't even know it was a virus.. most scientists believed influenza was caused by a bacterium.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haemophilus_influenza ... - Devrdander, on 08/18/2008, -1/+9Unless we're able to manipulate genetics making natural selection unnecessary... Then we get to play 'god'.
- Metasquares, on 08/18/2008, -0/+7Perhaps you should go into the medical field, work on some broad spectrum drug therapy that does to viruses what antibiotics do to bacteria, and win a Nobel Prize or two then.
Medicine is harder than you think. - TheSpook, on 08/18/2008, -0/+7Is the word "screwed" a curse in your household?
- inactive, on 08/18/2008, -2/+8Time to play Pandemic.
- sparepost, on 08/18/2008, -0/+6No, you are not immune to this flu. The genetic changes that produce new antibodies happen to somatic cells - cells that are not passed on to offspring. The sperm from your great great grandfather does not "remember" this killer flu
- radiantstorm, on 08/18/2008, -2/+7"The bodies, and the virus, had been preserved in the permanently frozen soil of Alaska." Oh, great. What else is thawing out as we speak. We're scr%&ed.
- zyklon, on 08/18/2008, -0/+5Ahh crap, beat me to it.
- inactive, on 08/18/2008, -0/+5Does Madagascar really not have an airport?
- kent1146, on 08/18/2008, -0/+4Say hi to your great great grandmother for me while you're there.
- dgendreau, on 08/18/2008, -0/+4http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibody
Except antibodies are not the disease. They are the proteins your body manufactures to help your body identify any kill a specific disease (ie. make you immune to it). - jrhick, on 08/18/2008, -0/+3While modern medicine is amazing - the human body is even more so - one of the most deadly flu viruses is countered with one of the most potent and long lasting anti-bodies ever known - meaning those that survived would continue to be "safe" from that virus for survival puposes
- maj0rm0j0, on 08/18/2008, -3/+6Stopping natural selection makes mankind weaker.
- atact88, on 08/18/2008, -1/+4awesome.
- SuperVepr308, on 08/18/2008, -0/+3Ahhh, so the "beaker breaking" moment actually happened in 2005: "In 2005, researchers from Mount Sinai and the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C., resurrected the 1918 virus from the bodies of people killed in the outbreak. The bodies, and the virus, had been preserved in the permanently frozen soil of Alaska." Still, we are OK because they found some people still alive that had the antibody or "immunity" to the virus.
- mithrasinvictus, on 08/18/2008, -0/+3That would be a vaccine. Here is your new link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine
Vaccines make your body produce antibodies on it own. - thunderclap, on 08/18/2008, -0/+3Just remember that everyone kills Hitler on their first trip.
- TheSpook, on 08/18/2008, -1/+4What if you were one of those who were "thinned"?
- serif69, on 08/18/2008, -1/+4Oh thank God. Now I won't die 90 years ago.
- beauley, on 08/19/2008, -0/+2Ever since the inrush of the American "Industrial Revolution", the nutritional value of the food we eat has been on the decline, even following the addition of vitamins and minerals to fortify our foods to offset the losses using artificial fertilizers.
http://www.gomestic.com/Consumer-Information/Our-F ...
Our Food is Quickly Loosing Its Nutritional Value - BDOUG, on 08/18/2008, -0/+2My wife says that to me all the time. Ya pays ya money, ya takes ya chances. Life would be better for all on this planet if there were fewer humans, who have no natural predators and are therefore way out of balance and fouling the nest. Sadly the dumbest of the dumb are the ones who (generally) procreate the fastest.
- kkashx, on 08/18/2008, -0/+2Another cure for cancer?
- jster89, on 08/18/2008, -0/+2Antibodies don't contain the virus in them no. They are proteins which bind onto the viral particles which can neutralise the virus and show it up to other cells in the body so that it may be removed. Vaccines allow the body to produce antibodies on its own. Antibodies themselves are of little use clinically.
- KingGorilla, on 08/18/2008, -0/+2Do not crush butterflies!!!!
- marinebro0306, on 08/18/2008, -0/+2Well there goes the world.
- inactive, on 08/18/2008, -2/+4what's the worst that could happen?
- whodoes, on 08/18/2008, -0/+2From a VERY distant perspective, divorced from the obvious individual horror of such a thing, its probably the best thing that could happen to the human species as long as it happens in the next 15-20 years. Im thinking that the worst (within the same time frame) would an "antidote" against aging.
- Voideyez, on 08/18/2008, -0/+2Dude no you don't unde.....
Okay your right. - sageisgay, on 08/18/2008, -0/+2http://www.aircraft-charter-world.com/airports/afr ...
- Metasquares, on 08/18/2008, -1/+2I thought that too, but apparently our evolution has actually accelerated.
We may have replaced natural pressures with social ones. What exactly this means for the future of the human race is uncertain to me. - haxcorner, on 08/18/2008, -0/+1Danny DeVito?
- iamstevieb, on 08/18/2008, -0/+1Dugg for mentioning cure for HIV.
- SuperVepr308, on 08/18/2008, -1/+2But don't the antibodies (thanks for the link but I actually know what they are) have a portion of the dangerous agent in them? For example, a flu shot is a small, manageable shot of the influenza virus that the body can overcome and hence become "immune" to in most instances.
- CaBaLLeRo, on 08/18/2008, -0/+1This looks like a job for NorBAC! =D
- thunderclap, on 08/18/2008, -0/+1As long as it happens in the areas that are desert with oil. Then its a win -win otherwise its bad. (Not my thoughts those of the flu handlers)
- thunderclap, on 08/18/2008, -0/+1Oh we are not telling you that we did this because we are testing the flu in Iran and don't want want our secret shock troops to get it too.
- manacit2, on 08/18/2008, -0/+1This was the first thing I thought when I read the title.
ReGenesis ftw - inactive, on 08/21/2008, -0/+1You do understand that antibodies bind TO the flu and ultimately lead to its death, right? Just checking...
- whodoes, on 08/18/2008, -0/+1....have you seen "The Thing"...?
one of the best horror movies of all time. - guru42101, on 08/18/2008, -0/+1Not much.. They found the antibodies (what our body uses to fight infection, ie the cure).
- beauley, on 12/31/2008, -1/+1We know that antibodies produced from invading antigens such as the flu virus no matter what the strain protects the body from future invasion as long as the immune system is not compromised. The body is the best protection from disease producing invaders.
Some reference links:
The Immune System
http://www.wellnessletter.com/html/fw/fwLon16Immun ...
http://www.vaclib.org/indexdoc.htm#basic
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