S.A.R.S.-----12 monkeys ????

[emef]

its all getting a bit freaky in hong kong and spreading

[marcel]

12 monkeys is a damn good movie.


what i heard too, is that the SARS virus came out of a region in china there in the past came a lot of different virus(? whats the plural?) from. and this one could kill millions of people, like one from that region did in the 20ies of the last century iirc

[Virus]

hmm....

given my job i wish i could offer us all some reassurance, the UK World Health Orgainisation labs for looking into this are just down the corridor from me, and to be honest they have been clueless for weeks despite getting a load of extra folk in, until now

the vibe now is that they have an agent, once they validate some assays it will be alot easier for them to implement much more effective surveillance and begin to control its spread, they are all busy (and talented) girls and boys here so lets hope we get some good news soon....

as for the concern about a 1918 style 'flu pandemic , these fears are unfounded because its not a 'flu virus, also in 1918 lots of the deaths were due to secondary bacterial infections which could now be controlled with antibiotics which they did not have then,

though i do admit think the scariest bit was seeing my Proffessor ( one of the UK's leading experts ) on TV saying he was less concerned about HIV when it first appeared....

now back to the music

[Weishaupt]

i think the half world will wear gas-mask and the other half will wear a mask for the mouth

life is beautiful

[CHIP TRONIC]

have you ever read James Herbert´s novel "1948"?

It´s really great.
it is about a weapon hitler used in this sci fi novel as retaliation.

he sent some v2 rockets to London, which contained a kind of virus. Consequently, all people in the city died an agonizing death , because the virus made their blood o clot within some minutes inside their veins until embolism occurred.
Only people with AB negative survived. This virus spread quickly throughout the world.

Hmm. SARS is for me only another disease.

Much worse are biological weapons such as this fictive weapon of retaliation.

OR remember "The Stand" by stephen king. Super flu.

[Weishaupt]

1984 is also cool..................

[KaOz]

well i think the SARS virus isnt that complex.

[Basic 2: The Revenge]

Flu is more contagious than this. As with flu, it seems to be effecting the usual areas of the populus the worst - elderly and infirm.

[Yer_Maw]

Originally posted by Virus


as for the concern about a 1918 style 'flu pandemic , these fears are unfounded because its not a 'flu virus, also in 1918 lots of the deaths were due to secondary bacterial infections which could now be controlled with antibiotics which they did not have then,



and if i remember higher history correctly the health of people after ww1 didn't help either.

[CHIP TRONIC]

and the flu virus mutates very quickly

[goinz]

12 monkeys is my favorite film. i say only Jeffrey Goinz.

[bitch one]

hey virus - what u workin on? i used to be a biologist til i got bored (evolutionary/population genetics - yes, i said POPULATION genetics, ie counting flies endlessly, hence the extreme boredom)

[Virus]

at the end of the day millions of people are dying from infectious diseases every year mostly in the developing world be it Malaria, HIV, Hepatitis, Tuberculosis and indeed 'flu etc....

SARS is another one to add to the list, lets hope drug companies get intersted in it quickly, which they will as it is infecting rich westerners, which will always guarentee some return on their investment

[marcel]

Originally posted by Weishaupt
i think the half world will wear gas-mask and the other half will wear a mask for the mouth

hey! youre ripping off harald schmidt! it was him who said that first, ts..

[Virus]

Originally posted by bitch one
hey virus - what u workin on? i used to be a biologist til i got bored (evolutionary/population genetics - yes, i said POPULATION genetics, ie counting flies endlessly, hence the extreme boredom)

mainly working on hepatitis B at the moment, basically i am doing a whole bunch of functional assays to look at the mechanisms by which this virus becomes resistant to drugs and vaccines, sometimes both at the same time which is no good

sorry to hear about the population genetics, its all a bit nae joy, its a bit madder for viruses than flies though, cos evolution is so stupidly fast it can be studied in an infected patient over the course of months ( as opposed to millions of years for other organisms )

where did you do your work? glasgow?

[Yer_Maw]

Originally posted by bitch one
ie counting flies endlessly

3hrs of counting larvae feeding was enough for me. do the feed up?or do they feed down? what happens when we shine a lamp on them, do they feed up? dothey feed down? what happens if we... etc etc etc etc arrrghh!!

[ischo]

Originally posted by Yer_Maw


3hrs of counting larvae feeding was enough for me. do the feed up?or do they feed down? what happens when we shine a lamp on them, do they feed up? dothey feed down? what happens if we... etc etc etc etc arrrghh!!

mmhh, sounds like a good job for a stoner then..

[Virus]

Originally posted by ischo


mmhh, sounds like a good job for a stoner then..

actually had a mate whose job it was to study sheep movements in fields for a whole summer...

basically he had to sit at the side with a little chart and note where they all went in the field every few minutes, i think they thought there might be a "master sheep" or something that they all followed

cannot tell you the results of the study though, but needless to say, its the most 'stoners' job i have heard of ( apart from when i used to dive an ice-cream van )

[bitch one]

microbial evolution i always found relatively exciting for exactly the reason u say - you can actually do evolution experiments, try evolving things on petri dishes. they were the only talks i ever stayed awake in at seminars.

i mean, i could describe what i was doing in more interesting terms by saying i was investigating the evolution of life history traits, trying to discover the evolutionary cause of ageing. but really i was just counting flies - having spent nearly 3 years twisting my head round it, i'm not sure i actually believe a lot of evolutionary theory, and i was at the very top of the tree really working in brian charlesworth's lab at edinburgh. i sort of miss all the brain stimulation, and feel a bit bad cos i was quite good at it and now i'm just treading water doing a pretty stoopid job. but fuck it. there's more to life than work - not a lot of the scientists i was workin with would agree. the other big reason i left.

[DsD]

Originally posted by marcel


hey! youre ripping off harald schmidt! it was him who said that first, ts..

HARAAAAAAAALD! the best guy on german tv ;)

now to sars. let`s be realistic... we need stuff like that cause we are overpopulated. it`s hard but the truth and if i am not totaly wrong it is not 100 percent deadly. i think aids is still a bigger problem except u are sexuall inactiv (true nerds ;) )

[tsr_tomas]

i´m drunk.

[DsD]

nothing new for us tomas ;)

[tsr_tomas]

kejin will win !

[DsD]

corinna will win! kejin has no chance!

[tsr_tomas]

yeah right... corinna will be floored after snoozing on the second beer. hahhahaaa.

[Mirsha]

I'm still worried by my opening a bottle at 2:30am. I've just been called a chufter for admiting to drinking white wine.

[Loz]

You should drink whatever you want to. At least you don't resort to Domestos.

[marcel]

Originally posted by tsr_tomas
i´m drunk.

hahaha, you like to post anything then youre drunk, eh?:)

[Weishaupt]

Originally posted by marcel


hey! youre ripping off harald schmidt! it was him who said that first, ts..

tztz........damn holgo...tz tz..asshole......tststs..cunt. ...nanana........

[jukka]

i can't understand why so many people do like the harry schmidt show.......i can't stand to watch it.
it is too much for me everytime i have to watch at friends places because they like him :(

[Weishaupt]

jukka...harald is the best.the king. he do it!!!!!!!!

i like him very very much.......................... .

Mann aldä....der harald isch de grösste!

[jukka]

nö.....:-p

[KaOz]

tv sucks

[jukka]

yup, it sucks mostly....but its okay sometimes.

[aleks]

Originally posted by jukka
i can't understand why so many people do like the harry schmidt show.......i can't stand to watch it.
it is too much for me everytime i have to watch at friends places because they like him :(

because you don´t know a thang, stoopid!

tv is good btw!

[jukka]

pfffff...tststs.....i guess you boozed away your brain :illin:

[tsr_tomas]

tv rulez... love the idiotbox, it has given me some good memories.
bundy, wentworth prison, familyguy, simpsons. this list can go on forever !

[DsD]

harald is the late night king in germany. not as stupid as the lame stefan raab

[marcel]

harald is defenitely the king! especially in these days, i didnt miss a show for weeks now

[marcel]

Millionen Werktätige, die anständig jeden Tag ihr Geld verdienen, werden fortwährend belästigt von verrottetem Gesindel, das in Hochglanz-Illustrierten sein sinnloses Privatleben ausbreitet. Das muss irgendwie bestraft werden. (H. Schmidt)
--
"Wie heißt das Gefühl aus Mitleid und Ekel? - Ah, ja - Toleranz!" (H. Schmidt)

[amble]

yep he's the man! pretty much the only thing i watch regularly these days.

about SARS: it's kinda weird, when they first talked about it on telly my first thought was that the whole story was made up as a distraction for the coming iraq war, to keep the world press engaged. guess that was just paranoia but hey who knows.

[marcel]

Wenn man sagt Rumsfeld ist toericht, dann ist das auch juristisch abgesicherter. Das klingt dann so als ob er noch resozialisierbar waere.

Harald Schmidt

[wheezer]

Originally posted by DsD
harald is the late night king in germany. not as stupid as the lame stefan raab

the one-eyed king in the valley of the blind :)

[Weishaupt]

Originally posted by wheezer


the one-eyed king in the valley of the blind :)

naaahh..............im not blind...............most of the time:-)