... and just like that it was gone!!!!
Jan 19, 2022 20:09:01 #
Imagine a v***s so deadly and contagious that it disappears when a politician is at risk of losing public office.
Jan 19, 2022 20:28:41 #
ACP45 wrote:
Imagine a v***s so deadly and contagious that it disappears when a politician is at risk of losing public office.
What a surprise. 🤨
We're next!!!!!
And then all we have to do is re-elect Trump, and we're golden!!
Jan 19, 2022 21:10:10 #
ACP45 wrote:
Imagine a v***s so deadly and contagious that it disappears when a politician is at risk of losing public office.
Think that video of him unmasked dancing at a party might have had a bit to do with his new stance...
Jan 20, 2022 00:25:39 #
My research and experience indicates v***ses seek to survive, thus becoming more contagious but less lethal.. other than the need for political theater and power, there is no need to believe otherwise regarding this v***s. The only thing we have to fear are fearmongering politicians.
Jan 20, 2022 04:00:57 #
Fortunate American wrote:
Who the hell is afraid of a bunch of phony fearmongering politicians? My research and experience indicates v***ses seek to survive, thus becoming more contagious but less lethal.. other than the need for political theater and power, there is no need to believe otherwise regarding this v***s. The only thing we have to fear are fearmongering politicians.
Lying bastards should be drawn and quartered.
You want a really good education on v***ses and v***l outbreaks and p******cs and bioweapons, read the following three books by science journalist Richard Preston:
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola V***s
A highly infectious, deadly v***s from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this exotic "hot" v***s. The Hot Zone tells this dramatic story, giving a hair-raising account of the appearance of rare and lethal v***ses and their "crashes" into the human race. Shocking, frightening, and impossible to ignore, The Hot Zone proves that t***h really is scarier than fiction.
Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgent wake-up call about the future of emerging v***ses and a gripping account of the doctors and scientists fighting to protect us, told through the story of the deadly 2013–2014 Ebola epidemic
“Crisis in the Red Zone reads like a thriller. That the story it tells is all true makes it all more terrifying.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction
From the #1 bestselling author of The Hot Zone, now a National Geographic original miniseries . . .
This time, Ebola started with a two-year-old child who likely had contact with a wild creature and whose entire family quickly fell ill and died. The ensuing global drama activated health professionals in North America, Europe, and Africa in a desperate race against time to contain the v***l wildfire. By the end—as the v***s mutated into its deadliest form, and spread farther and faster than ever before—30,000 people would be infected, and the dead would be spread across eight countries on three continents.
In this taut and suspenseful medical drama, Richard Preston deeply chronicles the p******c, in which we saw for the first time the specter of Ebola jumping continents, crossing the Atlantic, and infecting people in America. Rich in characters and conflict—physical, emotional, and ethical—Crisis in the Red Zone is an immersion in one of the great public health calamities of our time.
Preston writes of doctors and nurses in the field putting their own lives on the line, of government bureaucrats and NGO administrators moving, often fitfully, to try to contain the outbreak, and of pharmaceutical companies racing to develop drugs to combat the v***s. He also explores the charged ethical dilemma over who should and did receive the rare doses of an experimental treatment when they became available at the peak of the disaster.
Crisis in the Red Zone makes clear that the outbreak of 2013–2014 is a harbinger of further, more severe outbreaks, and of emerging v***ses heretofore unimagined—in any country, on any continent. In our ever more interconnected world, with roads and towns cut deep into the jungles of equatorial Africa, v***ses both familiar and undiscovered are being unleashed into more densely populated areas than ever before.
The more we discover about the virosphere, the more we realize its deadly potential. Crisis in the Red Zone is an exquisitely timely book, a stark warning of v***l outbreaks to come.
The Demon in the Freezer.
The first major bioterror event in the United States-the anthrax attacks in October 2001-was a clarion call for scientists who work with “hot” agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons. In The Demon in the Freezer, his first nonfiction book since The Hot Zone, a #1 New York Times bestseller, Richard Preston takes us into the heart of Usamriid, the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland, once the headquarters of the U.S. biological weapons program and now the epicenter of national biodefense.
Peter Jahrling, the top scientist at Usamriid, a wry virologist who cut his teeth on Ebola, one of the world’s most lethal emerging v***ses, has ORCON security clearance that gives him access to top secret information on bioweapons. His most urgent priority is to develop a drug that will take on smallpox-and win. Eradicated from the planet in 1979 in one of the great triumphs of modern science, the smallpox v***s now resides, officially, in only two high-security freezers-at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and in Siberia, at a Russian v******y institute called Vector. But the demon in the freezer has been set loose. It is almost certain that illegal stocks are in the possession of hostile states, including Iraq and North Korea. Jahrling is haunted by the thought that biologists in secret labs are using genetic engineering to create a new superpox v***s, a smallpox resistant to all v*****es.
Usamriid went into a state of Delta Alert on September 11 and activated its emergency response teams when the first anthrax letters were opened in New York and Washington, D.C. Preston reports, in unprecedented detail, on the government’ s response to the attacks and takes us into the ongoing FBI investigation. His story is based on interviews with top-level FBI agents and with Dr. Steven Hatfill.
Jahrling is leading a team of scientists doing controversial experiments with live smallpox v***s at CDC. Preston takes us into the lab where Jahrling is reawakening smallpox and explains, with cool and devastating precision, what may be at stake if his last bold experiment fails.
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