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BROOK · 06-15-2009, 05:33 AM

Remember how they were saying that the swine flu was killing people in Mexico..but not here...just made them really sick?
It sounded like they modified the virus to fit the genetics ...possibly as a test I believe I saw someone here describe it that way...I'm not very up on the science of it..but if that is the case...a program to profile our genetics would be a great way to attack with a virus..to do the job completely...and having that kind of information in a database is a bit frightening...in the wrong hands that is.....
The concept they describe..is wonderful...if used for that purpose...I just have reservations about that information being put into a database for research..and available to the wrong ones...maybe I am being paranoid...maybe not.

06-15-2009, 05:33 AM	#5
BROOK Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 3,117	Re: New era of gene-based 'personalized medicine' dawning Remember how they were saying that the swine flu was killing people in Mexico..but not here...just made them really sick? It sounded like they modified the virus to fit the genetics ...possibly as a test I believe I saw someone here describe it that way...I'm not very up on the science of it..but if that is the case...a program to profile our genetics would be a great way to attack with a virus..to do the job completely...and having that kind of information in a database is a bit frightening...in the wrong hands that is..... The concept they describe..is wonderful...if used for that purpose...I just have reservations about that information being put into a database for research..and available to the wrong ones...maybe I am being paranoid...maybe not.