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Stop Future Plagues By Mutating Viruses To Death

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RAHfanboy
11/12/08

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What could go wrong?
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termitehead
11/11/08

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Soooo... the chances of this producing a super plague is...?
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Ghede
11/11/08

@termitehead: As I understand it, the odds are low. You might get a virus that could conceiveably have been a super plague under normal circumstances but the next generation of viruses wouldn't be the superplague.

Or you are pretty much giving the virus a viral equivalent of cancer.

I'm not actually sure.
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Ghede
11/11/08

@causeiambetta: *cough* Hi, I'm Ghede. One of the reasons I hate the new commenting system, Nobody expands the freaking comments.
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