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[Old Greg]

Talking of rats, perhaps Churchy would shred some light on why he left the Navy...

His commanding officer was Jewish.

[AtW]

Talking of rats, perhaps Churchy would shred some light on why he left the Navy...

[Old Greg]

The Rats (novel) - Wikipedia

What this novel fails to address is that eating rat was a well established military practice in preference to eating Shauny's corned beef fritters.

[AtW]

The Rats (novel) - Wikipedia

[SueEllen]

Someone creates a virus to kill rats, the rat virus mixes with a human virus living inside a rat, the virus creates a new zoonotic virus that infects humans, goodbye humans.

That's a proper Doom post right there.

Does anyone in the world eat brown/black rats?

If not then it would have to jump animal species to another one we do eat like pigs, cattle or chickens. Then it can jump to humans due to poor farming methods....

[DoctorStrangelove]

FOG

Wrong! Do it again!

[Old Greg]

What's the worst that could happen?

Killer mousepox virus raises bioterror fears | New Scientist

FOG

[DoctorStrangelove]

As a species we probably deserve it.

If any Predator aliens are out there, come on if you are hard enough!

[_V_]

That mink strain seemed to have them in a panic, culling all those tens of millions of them. Still, puts them out of their misery.

One day mother nature will cull all humans. If the aliens don't beat her to it.

As a species we probably deserve it.

If any Predator aliens are out there, come on if you are hard enough!

[Hobosapien]

That mink strain seemed to have them in a panic, culling all those tens of millions of them. Still, puts them out of their misery.

One day mother nature will cull all humans. If the aliens don't beat her to it.

[Zigenare]

What's the worst that could happen?

Killer mousepox virus raises bioterror fears | New Scientist

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a squeak!

[_V_]

What's the worst that could happen?

Killer mousepox virus raises bioterror fears | New Scientist

Someone creates a virus to kill rats, the rat virus mixes with a human virus living inside a rat, the virus creates a new zoonotic virus that infects humans, goodbye humans.

That's a proper Doom post right there.

[DoctorStrangelove]

What's the worst that could happen?

Killer mousepox virus raises bioterror fears | New Scientist

[_V_]

12K mutations already.

Only takes one bad one....

[AtW]

“ A giant study of more than 12,000 mutations in the novel coronavirus finds none of them has made a big difference in how easily it infects people, researchers reported Wednesday.

The mutations, found in more than 46,000 samples taken from 99 different countries, all appear to be neutral, the team of leading viral genetics experts reported in the journal Nature Communications.

"We find that none of the recurrent SARS-CoV-2 mutations tested are associated with significantly increased viral transmission," Francois Balloux, Lucy van Dorp and colleagues of University College London reported.”

So far, coronavirus mutations don't mean much, big study finds - CNN