read more........from rt.com....
"A man-made virus that could wipe out half humanity has been deemed a terrorist threat. And while the scientists behind the Frankenstein-flu hoped their research would help find a cure, critics fear they have developed the ultimate bio-weapon.
When virologist Ron Fouchier and his team of scientists first "mutated the hell out of” the H5N1 bird flu virus and presented their findings this past September, fear spread like contagion across the Internet.
But it is not just panic-prone bloggers who are up in arms about the latest virus.
Microbiologist and US National Science Advisory Board (NSABB) chair Paul Keim did not mince his words when describing the potentially deadly bug.
"I can't think of another pathogenic organism that is as scary as this one," Keim, who has worked on anthrax for many years, Keim told the Science Insider Journal. "I don't think anthrax is scary at all compared to this."
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