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that’s called bird flu. Just a few mutations away.</blockquote>
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<p>Did anyone (else) read <a
href="https://theliteraryomnivore.wordpress.com/2010/05/17/review-the-white-plague/">"White
Plague"</a> by Frank Herbert (yes that one)? Not a good time to
be pissing off (out of work?) molecular biologists... especially
with CRISPR having matured out of Science Fiction?</p>
<p>BTW, my daughter (Molecular Biologist) is looking for a new gig
after RFKjr & friends halted all the grants she was on at OHSU
as well as many adjacents. </p>
<p>Flaviviruses (Zika, W. Nile, Dingue) are primarily S***hole
country problems (why she made a career of them), or at least they
were when the first world still had good health care, and before
climate change started moving mosquito populations further north,
and into longer and longer seasons. <br>
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<p>FWIW, she's more likely to tweak chickens into tiny TRexes or
give humans back our prehensile tails than follow O'Niell's lead:</p>
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John Roe O’Neill’s world is shattered when an IRA bomb kills
his wife and children on a visit to Ireland. Driven mad by
their deaths, O’Neill, a brilliant molecular scientist,
unleashes a plague upon the world that wipes out most of the
women on the face of the Earth.</span></i></p>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">As a morbid, cynical,
and (at least semi) psychopathic, <b><i><u>old</u></i></b>
guy: where is Covid when we need it?</div>
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