11-06-2011, 03:23 AM
I offer this up without assurance as to its validity and veracity, especially given that it is sprinkled with product ads. Some of the comments are ill-informed and alarmist. OTOH...
Germany's superbug is weaponized with Bubonic Plague DNA
Posted on June 9, 2011
http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2011/06...lague-dna/
It notes the following source:
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/20...any/38324/
"On Tuesday [May 31], the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung reported that [leading German E. coli researcher Helge] Karch had discovered that the O104:H4 bacteria responsible for the current outbreak is a so-called chimera that contains genetic materia from various E. coli bacteria. It also contains DNA sequences from plague bacteria, which makes it particularly pathogenic."
Though he emphasized "There is no risk, however, that it could cause a form of plague," Karch added that plague DNA sequences make the superbug "particularly pathogenic."
More at the links....
Germany's superbug is weaponized with Bubonic Plague DNA
Posted on June 9, 2011
http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2011/06...lague-dna/
It notes the following source:
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/20...any/38324/
"On Tuesday [May 31], the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung reported that [leading German E. coli researcher Helge] Karch had discovered that the O104:H4 bacteria responsible for the current outbreak is a so-called chimera that contains genetic materia from various E. coli bacteria. It also contains DNA sequences from plague bacteria, which makes it particularly pathogenic."
Though he emphasized "There is no risk, however, that it could cause a form of plague," Karch added that plague DNA sequences make the superbug "particularly pathogenic."
More at the links....
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