More on the Man-Made, Super-Deadly Flu Virus

A few weeks ago I posted about scientists "tweaking" with the bird flu virus to make it more deadly infectious. Well, it's in the news again. (Story here).

A super-strain of bird flu that could infect and wipe out millions has been developed in a laboratory.

Dutch scientists who created the ‘Armageddon virus’ say it is ‘probably one of the most dangerous viruses you can make’.

Their research focused on what it took to convert bird flu – which can kill more than half of those infected but does not spread easily – into a highly contagious virus.

It is somewhat amusing, in a scary way, to read the reaction of those that somehow think that by keeping it secret, no one else will be able to do the same. How naive.