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Biotech / Medical : Ebola Outbreak 2014 - News, Updates and Related Investments
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To: sense who wrote (597)2/2/2016 9:15:09 AM
From: madmax123  Read Replies (1) of 608
 
thank you for taking the time to provide such a detailed response. I simply won't be able to address everything that he said, and I think the overarching theme is that in order for me to really form a detailed opinion I would need to read an awful lot more. At least you showed me that there is a large amount of information out there that I wasn't aware of, thank you.

I suppose I can't say that there is zero chance that these problems were caused by a survived population of mosquitoes, although I'm not yet sure that a precautionary principle approach applies here. What if it did just appear on its own? Then rapidly reducing the existing mosquito population would be in everybody's best interest rather than not doing so.

I read through the zero hedge article which was interesting. It doesn't appear that tetracycline was the best antibiotic for them to breed in resistance to the death gene. Antibiotics in animal feed is I think a pretty huge public health emergency which nobody yet seems to pay attention to. But that's a different story.

I'm sorry you can't eat cornflakes anymore, I think they've always been gross, but to each their own :-).

The article you linked to in your subsequent post I think appears to be a Bat Fish:

divephotoguide.com

anyway, thanks again for taking the time to explain some of the principles for how genes can get out into the environment and then evolution takes over. Maybe the overarching principle that I hadn't really considered is even in the case of gene insertion where an existing gene is transplanted, the new organism finds itself in a new niche with a different competitive stresses. Therefore, the evolution of said gene could take a different path than the original organism. Interesting idea.

Edit: I meant to add, it doesn't appear that there have been an increase in cases of the microcephaly in the other countries where there have been outdoor trials performed: oxitec.com I don't think the virus is present in the Cayman Islands yet, however it is in Malaysia.

Cheers,

Max
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