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Re: back yard gene hacking?

by Shawn Wilson <ikonoqlast@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Feb 5, 2008 at 12:51 PM

On Feb 4, 2:30=A0pm, bealoid <sig...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> assume a well funded group, with staff and equipment. =A0(For example,
loo=
k
> at someone like Aum Shin Ryko cult managing to aerosolise Anthrax into
air=

> for 24 hours.)
>
> How hard is it for them to get a bunch of virus / bacteria / fungal
spores=

> and 'gene hack' them into something really vicious - spreads like
measles,=

> infects about 80% of people it contacts, kills 60% of infected within 4
> weeks, leaves the rest immune from future attacks, but with severly
> compromised breathing (eg COPD) and with other weaknesses.


Not too hard at all, with the right resources.  You don't even need
gene hacking, just get your hands on samples of the 'Spanish Flu'.  Or
Smallpox.  Or Plague (need fleas to spread that).




 12 Posts in Topic:
back yard gene hacking?
bealoid <signup@[EMAIL  2008-02-04 21:30:01 
Re: back yard gene hacking?
Mike Williams <nospam@  2008-02-05 04:56:30 
Re: back yard gene hacking?
Shawn Wilson <ikonoqla  2008-02-05 12:51:05 
Re: back yard gene hacking?
ilya2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2008-02-06 05:46:11 
Re: back yard gene hacking?
Shawn Wilson <ikonoqla  2008-02-08 14:20:47 
Re: back yard gene hacking?
bealoid <signup@[EMAIL  2008-02-08 23:30:00 
Re: back yard gene hacking?
John Schilling <schill  2008-02-05 18:52:09 
Re: back yard gene hacking?
Mike Williams <nospam@  2008-02-06 14:07:19 
Re: back yard gene hacking?
John Schilling <schill  2008-02-06 17:26:32 
Re: back yard gene hacking?
"Carey Sublette"  2008-02-17 06:50:12 
Re: back yard gene hacking?
Mike Williams <nospam@  2008-02-18 06:28:54 
Re: back yard gene hacking?
"Carey Sublette"  2008-02-18 09:39:43 

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