In one of the safest laboratories in the world, scientists are intent on mixing one of the most contagious viruses in this world with one of the most deadly ones, she writes.
The goal is to find out whether swine flu and bird flu can end up as a deadly mixture, writes the Norwegian news agency ANB.
Swine flu (H1N1) is very contagious, but ends up only killing a minority of the persons who actually get the flu.
Bird flu (H5N1), on the other hand, kills more than 60 percent of its human victims, but only in rare cases spreads from person to person.
Should those two viruses mix or mutate, a new horror virus might appear: A virus as devastating as the avian flu virus and as contagious as the swine flu virus.'
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nasty, vile, crude & probable. Once the US has been bankrupted, I could see this laying the groundwork for a complete takeover.
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