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    Remember Swine Flu? Well, It's A Pandemic After All

    Good News! Your Nose Is Too Cold For Avian Flu.

    Eleven Visions of Life After the Great Epidemic

    New Study Shows Mobile Phones Are Spreading Deadly Biological Viruses

    Google Creates Plague Prediction System

    Is the Internet Ready for a Pandemic?

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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    06/14/09

    In reply to Remember Swine Flu? Well, It's A Pandemic After All
    I also have the thought that the medical comapanies will make out like bandits as they are already theiving us with ultra-high costs of health.

    yes we do have a lot of diseases that could be controlled with a little effort and some extra generosity.


    i think that we really need to have a long look at the whole medical industry and why the costs of treatment are as high as they are...........

    prices should be fair for all concerned

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    Image of GreyHammer GreyHammer
    06/14/09

    @gorehound: problem with this reasoning is that you assume we live in a time medical break throughs are just stumbled upon. time was you found mold and pennicilin, now it takes millions to Research and develop drugs to treat things that in the past were untreatable.
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    Image of braak braak
    06/14/09

    @GreyHammer: The problem with that reasoning is that it presumes that all of a pharmaceutical company's revenues are poured back into R&D.


    Of course, most pharma companies really do lose money on vaccinations--or, they don't make very much, at the least. So in this particular case, who's to say?

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    Image of GreyHammer GreyHammer
    06/14/09

    In reply to Remember Swine Flu? Well, It's A Pandemic After All
    doesnt the regular flu have a higher mortality rate? am i wrong to assume it kills the already too young, too old, too weak demographic. a relatively healthy person will weather it with chicken soup and mountain dew as is our cure for such things. or did i huff that paint thinner for the vision quest of my people incorrectly?!
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    Image of braak braak
    06/14/09

    @GreyHammer: The "too young" demographic?
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    Image of thexpert thexpert
    05/14/09

    In reply to Good News! Your Nose Is Too Cold For Avian Flu.
    "Our study gives vital clues about what kinds of changes would be needed in order for them to mutate and infect humans, potentially helping us to" make them deadlier in our lab.
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    Image of Anekanta - Go Play! Anekanta - Go Play!
    05/14/09

    @thexpert: You don't happen to work for R.O.A.C.H., by any chance?
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    05/14/09

    @Atnakena: Don't know if he does, but now he's brought this to my attention.


    (mwa ha ha.)


    (but of course R.O.A.C.H. first wants to find how to make a flu virus that will keep chunky losers in spandex off the streets. it's right there in the name.)

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    Image of Platypus Man Platypus Man
    05/14/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Can someone tell me what the hell all this R.O.A.C.H. stuff is? Did I miss the reason why several people appended that to their names? What does it stand for? What is it?


    I know this is off-topic, but how else do you expect me to find out?

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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    05/14/09

    @Platypus Man: All will be revealed tomorrow!!! Mwhahaaha. It is part of our evil plan.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    05/14/09

    @Platypus Man: Check the last few postings with tag "this is a disaster". It's Garrison Dean's fault.
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    Image of Platypus Man Platypus Man
    05/15/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Ah. Well, thanks for telling me ([io9.com]). Kinda lame, though...
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    05/15/09

    @Platypus Man: Spoken like someone who hasn't seen the video and t-shirt!
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    Image of NotChoinski NotChoinski
    04/28/09

    In reply to Eleven Visions of Life After the Great Epidemic
    Seaking of David Cronenberg, another one of his movies has been in late night cable rotation: Shivers.


    Its like Rabid except instead of a virus its a parasite, and the infected turn from laid back swinging singles into aggressive swinging singles.

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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    04/28/09

    In reply to Eleven Visions of Life After the Great Epidemic
    Another vote for 12 Monkeys and the original Andromeda Strain. If we're adding TV, what about the Star Trek first season ep "Miri" (OK I looked it up) when the kids are all ancient and eveyrone dies at puberty. (Boy were they messing with young minds!)
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    Image of Paul Geringer Paul Geringer
    04/27/09

    In reply to Eleven Visions of Life After the Great Epidemic
    V for Vendetta and Children of Men (sorta)?
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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    04/28/09

    @Paul Geringer: I'll buy Children of Men. I don't think they ever tie down exactly what caused the infertility.
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    04/27/09

    In reply to Eleven Visions of Life After the Great Epidemic
    The description of THE SIGNAL (which I haven't seen) reminds me of the dangers in the spread of memes: infectious ideas that spread via normal channels of communication.


    While the SF lobes in my brain want to think of this like a sort of computer virus but for people, memes in fact occur all the time in real life, frequently as the latest fad in fashion, business, or technology. And like biological viruses, they can be good or bad. The current financial crisis can be thought of as a kind of meme that infected investors, financiers, and bankers to take on more risk than any rational person could justify.


    Another example is the song that keeps running through your mind (think of ANYTHING except "Gilligan's Island"... ANYTHING!). This has been used in a short story by Arthur C. Clarke (as a weapon against the Nazi's I dimly recall) and in Alfred Bester's THE DEMOLISHED MAN (to avoid mind reading police from pegging a murderer). Just recently I had "Gimme Shelter" by the Rolling Stones running though my mind to the point of distraction. (But if you have to have a song stuck in your head, that's not a bad one.)


    Memes might be described as a kind of obsession for those of us that are so inclined. Or maybe some forms of addictions are meme-based instead of physiological.

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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    04/27/09

    @Chip Overclock: I'm pretty sure Gilligan's Island was a horrific virus that destroyed America.
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    Image of Frostbeard Frostbeard
    04/27/09

    In reply to Eleven Visions of Life After the Great Epidemic
    It's worth noting that in Rabid, the source of the deadly armpit penis wasn't simple cosmetic surgery. The doctors were performing an experimental stem cell procedure! Seriously, it's in the dialogue.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    04/27/09

    @Frostbeard: Well yeah. They were creating special skin that was supposed to regrow any part of the body. But . . . it was basically plastic surgery and armpit penises.
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    Image of CharlesRockyPamplin CharlesRockyPamplin
    04/27/09

    In reply to Eleven Visions of Life After the Great Epidemic
    The original (Spanish) version of "Quarantine" is called "Rec", and was far better.


    [www.imdb.com]

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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    04/27/09

    @CharlesRockyPamplin: Very true.
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    Image of alphanumeric1971 alphanumeric1971
    04/27/09

    In reply to Eleven Visions of Life After the Great Epidemic
    why didn't you go with the original 1971 Andromeda strain? It is much better that that remade piece of crap.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    04/27/09

    @alphanumeric1971: Because the new piece of crap was so hilariously preposterous that it became awesome. Except for the fact that it was horribly boring, some of that dialog was priceless. I love when they discover that the virus is some kind of cheesy ROT13 code, and then it's nano-something, and then it's a von Neumann Probe, and then it's some other ridiculous thing like an invisible dinosaur truck.
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    Image of ZanipoloLebron ZanipoloLebron
    04/27/09

    In reply to Eleven Visions of Life After the Great Epidemic
    you seem to have missed 28 Weeks where the 28 Days Virus jumps to France and blows away the population on the Europe/Asia/Africa continental convergence...Leaving the USA to get all smug about not living in the Same basket as the rest, and the Canadians to go all hypocondriac.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    04/28/09

    @ZanipoloLebron: I didn't miss it. But it was no 28 Days Later.
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    Image of Lassus Lassus
    04/27/09

    In reply to Eleven Visions of Life After the Great Epidemic
    I originally read this headline as "Elven Visions of Life After the Great Epidemic" and became very confused.


    Also, out of respect for the dead, perhaps a "recently departed" (two weeks ago) for Ms. Chambers would be appropriate.

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    Image of matthewtoney matthewtoney
    04/27/09

    @Lassus: Ooooo "Post Apocalyptic Elves" - I'd deinitely watch that
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    04/28/09

    @matthewtoney: Not just post-apocalyptic. These elves are apparently involved in spreading the pandemic that destroys us all! Why don't those elves go off in their ships to that shiny place with Bilbo and leave us alone?
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    04/27/09

    In reply to Eleven Visions of Life After the Great Epidemic
    I humbly offer this trailer to the over-the-top Thai movie, SARS Wars

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    Image of omgwtflolbbqbye omgwtflolbbqbye
    04/27/09

    @Grey_Area: "over the top" and "thai" are redundant adjectives.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    04/27/09

    @omgwtflolbbqbye: Granted. They make Hong Kong movies look like Ingmar Bergman.
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    04/27/09

    In reply to Eleven Visions of Life After the Great Epidemic
    No love for The Stand?
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    Image of Lassus Lassus
    04/27/09

    @goldfarb: Am I the only one who found that production severely lacking? It just wasn't that good.
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    Image of matthewtoney matthewtoney
    04/27/09

    @goldfarb: Personally I like to pretend that "The Stand" made-for-tv-miniseries never happened. :(
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    04/27/09

    @matthewtoney: I didn't realize this list was just for things that were really awesome...

    /re-reads list/


    um...

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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    04/27/09

    @Lassus: Well like many Steven King productions it started off awesome then kind of tapered down until the end was just kind of lame.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/05/09

    In reply to New Study Shows Mobile Phones Are Spreading Deadly Biological Viruses
    So what are you saying? I shouldn't lick the cel phones of ER nurses any more? What am I supposed to do now on a Friday night?!
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