With this corpse here? I was just ... virus harvesting. You know, the way people do.

I'd have snipers on standby. Anyone out of that lab so much as sneezes - BAM!

Then sterelize the whole location with napalm.

Weaver95: Then sterelize the whole location with napalm.

Nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

fariasrv: Weaver95: Then sterelize the whole location with napalm.

Nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Or close all the ports in Madagascar.

Weaver95:

Then sterelize the whole location with napalm.

I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

China exports coffins now?

I, for one, salute our new Zombie cheap bastard overlords.

So, when are Larry, Stu, Glen and Ralph going to Vegas?


/Baby, can you dig your man?
//Catpain Trips baby!

The flu is good for the Earth.
Gets rid of the old and weak.
And enough kids should survive(except Mamas little snowflakes) to reproduce a new, better, stronger master race of evil mutants. Bent on destroying every normal left in existence.

Get Lost: The flu is good for the Earth.
Gets rid of the old and weak.
And enough kids should survive(except Mamas little snowflakes) to reproduce a new, better, stronger master race of evil mutants. Bent on destroying every normal left in existence.

I believe they're called "normies"

The Spanish flu outbreak killed 50million worldwide.

Holy Fark!

A Scot dies of the Spanish flu in France. There's got to be a joke in there somewhere.

Or close all the ports in Madagascar.

Well as long as you don't let it go all Greenland and leave everything open after 2/3 of the population has died.

Scared? You should be.

Get Lost:
The flu is good for the Earth.
Gets rid of the old and weak.
And enough kids should survive(except Mamas little snowflakes) to reproduce a new, better, stronger master race of evil mutants. Bent on destroying every normal left in existence.


A human cull?
Humans as parasites to the planet?
Niiiice.

Whether we like it or not, the flu serves a purpose.

Joker you diabolical...

Scared? You should be.

Garth Marenghi pic!

Marenghi:
"The doors of Darkplace were opened. Not the literal doors to the building, most of which were closed, but evil doors, dark doors, doors to the beyond. Doors that were hard to shut because they were abstract and didn't have handles. They were more like portals, really. From this day on, I'd have to fight these forces of darkness . . . and deal with the burden of day-to-day admin. "

nunia: Weaver95:

Then sterelize the whole location with napalm.

I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

Napalm, it sticks to kids......

jjorsett: A Scot dies of the Spanish flu in France. There's got to be a joke in there somewhere.

Yeah... he shat himself on his deathbed.

I knew this day would come. Time to stock up on supplies and barricade myself into my house. I have a 45lb longbow with plenty of arrows, the ingredients for some basic explosives, a riot shield, enough canned food to last 6 months, and (most importantly) the means to make beer. Whose with me?

/Who wants to guess which of those items I actually own?

MacBeathian drama queens piss me off.

cksewell: MacBeathian drama queens piss me off.

fix...gawd

erm, there have been survivors of the epidemic. their antibodies are in the process of being analyzed so a vaccine can be made from them. so, why are we resurrecting a mutated scottish zombie?

Cambo_: /Who wants to guess which of those items I actually own?

Riot shield.

Get Lost:
The flu is good for the Earth.
Gets rid of the old and weak.
And enough kids should survive(except Mamas little snowflakes) to reproduce a new, better, stronger master race of evil mutants. Bent on destroying every normal left in existence.

Well, actually...

The 1917 flu took the biggest toll on people with the *healthiest* immune systems. The immune reaction was so strong on top of the damage the flu was already doing that it would kill them overnight.

The old and very young were the ones least likely to die.

Nobody expects the Spanish influenza!

In a bid to prevent a flu pandemic, scientists dig up a the body of a wealthy Scottish land owner buried in a lead coffin in a Yorkshire church graveyard. The aristocrat

I've got a gr't family vault at Kingsbere and knighted forefathers in lead coffins there!

Phone_Answering_Monkey: Cambo_: /Who wants to guess which of those items I actually own?

Riot shield.

I was going to guess "rubber fist", but unfortunately it was not one of the options.

Spider Dijon: Joker you diabolical...

Scared? You should be.

Garth Marenghi pic!

Marenghi:
"The doors of Darkplace were opened. Not the literal doors to the building, most of which were closed, but evil doors, dark doors, doors to the beyond. Doors that were hard to shut because they were abstract and didn't have handles. They were more like portals, really. From this day on, I'd have to fight these forces of darkness . . . and deal with the burden of day-to-day admin. "

That cat just told me to leave...

Meh, ReGenesis already did the Spanish flu like, three seasons ago.

I'm pretty sure overlord won the thread.

Yeah, he did. +1.

Interesting tidbit of information: the Spanish Flu was not, in fact, Spanish. It most likely originated in Kansas, specifically Fort Riley, due to the large number of people concentrated there who had lived in close proximity to farm animals (specifically pigs and chickens). The 1917 pandemic started as a bird/swine flu, and jumped to humans.

Such a jump is less likely to occur in the U.S. these days because most of the population lives outside of rural areas, and those that do live on farms don't share housing with their livestock. However, countries in which there is a large rural population, and where people share buildings with their livestock (barn space on the first floor, living space on the second floor) are the current breeding-grounds of nasty virus strains (e.g., China and H5N1).

I try to be rational but things like this take hold in my imagination ~ kudzu for the mind...

Actually it is kinda scary- the past biggies- the Black Death, Spanish flu- we don't know for sure what they even were.

Black Death is assumed to be Yersinia pestis (Bubonic plague). But one, we didn't have any samples to confirm it, and two, some reports about the symptoms and way it spread are inconsistent with Yersinia pestis. With more recent research we're at least "mostly" sure it was YS.

jjorsett: A Scot dies of the Spanish flu in France. There's got to be a joke in there somewhere.

WINS

dreadprophet Serious question - wtf is it with yanks and Monty Python? About 10% of it is good, 40% is average and the remainder is as amusing as an infected anal polyp.

Possibly the most depressing fiction I have ever read.

"In 1948 Heinrich Mueller, the former head of the Gestapo, told his CIA Interrogator that the most devastating plague in human history was man-made.

He was referring to the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 that infected 20% of the world's population and killed between 60 and 100 million people. This is roughly 3 times as many as were killed and wounded in World War One, and is comparable to WWII losses, yet this modern plague has slipped down the memory hole.

Mueller said the flu started as a US army bacteriological warfare weapon that somehow infected US army ranks at Camp Riley KS in March 1918, and spread around the world. He says that it "got out of control" but we cannot discount the horrible possibility that the "Spanish Flu" was a deliberate elite depopulation measure, and that it could be used again. Researchers have found connections between it and the current "Bird Flu."

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/influenza/peopleevents/pandeAMEX86.html


Conspiracy thread anyone?

Someones been there done that.

Alaskan Victim of 1918 Flu Yields Sample of Killer Virus ... He said that although the 1918 epidemic was called the Spanish flu, the virus apparently was a ..

Every time I hear anything about the Flu Pandemic, I think of this song. (new window)

I blame This Week in Science.

Alyna_jf: Get Lost: The flu is good for the Earth.
Gets rid of the old and weak.
And enough kids should survive(except Mamas little snowflakes) to reproduce a new, better, stronger master race of evil mutants. Bent on destroying every normal left in existence.

I believe they're called we call them "normies"

FTFY

miranda_caldwell: "In 1948 Heinrich Mueller, the former head of the Gestapo, told his CIA Interrogator that the most devastating plague in human history was man-made.

He was referring to the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 that infected 20% of the world's population and killed between 60 and 100 million people. This is roughly 3 times as many as were killed and wounded in World War One, and is comparable to WWII losses, yet this modern plague has slipped down the memory hole.

Mueller said the flu started as a US army bacteriological warfare weapon that somehow infected US army ranks at Camp Riley KS in March 1918, and spread around the world. He says that it "got out of control" but we cannot discount the horrible possibility that the "Spanish Flu" was a deliberate elite depopulation measure, and that it could be used again. Researchers have found connections between it and the current "Bird Flu."

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/influenza/peopleevents/pandeAMEX86.html


Conspiracy thread anyone?

I had heard the Fort Reilly strain actually began in France the previous season and had migrated to the US. It originated in ducks.

Who knows. It wouldn't surprise me since America pretty much led the world in eugenics.

Oh well,

Thats an 827: Someones been there done that.

Alaskan Victim of 1918 Flu Yields Sample of Killer Virus ... He said that although the 1918 epidemic was called the Spanish flu, the virus apparently was a ..

Yeah this is kinda old and busted. The Alaskan sample yielded the 1918 Spanish flu virus back in 2005.

Not just a sequence. In 2007 they reconstructed the virus from the 2005 sequence and infected monkeys showed the same 1918 symptoms. Scary stuff. That virus was a long dead fossil, its essential structure forever destroyed but we resurrected it, even knowing how much power it had to devastate the world again.

Also profound is that as DNA/RNA reconstruction becomes more common, the digital version of the virus can essentially spread by flash drive or unsecured servers leading to widespread downloads. The binary data form obviously can't hurt anyone but one day it won't be inconceivable that it would be easy to have the data transformed into an organism through off-the-shelf processes and there are plenty of crazy people in the world ready to do it. Essentially these crazy people are a disease vector by which it crosses from the digital domain back into human biology, just like the first bird that hosted the mutation that let it cross from birds into the human Spanish Flu.

fariasrv: Interesting tidbit of information: the Spanish Flu was not, in fact, Spanish. It most likely originated in Kansas, specifically Fort Riley, due to the large number of people concentrated there who had lived in close proximity to farm animals (specifically pigs and chickens). The 1917 pandemic started as a bird/swine flu, and jumped to humans.

While it was first identified at Fort Riley, it probably had been around for a long time before then (e.g., Etaple, 1916).

Bring out your dead! Bring out your dead!

Must eat scientist braaaaains...

Iron Chef Scottish: dprophet Serious question - wtf is it with yanks and Monty Python? About 10% of it is good, 40% is average and the remainder is as amusing as an infected anal polyp.

As an American, let me assure you that we think infected anal polyps are gigglity as all hell.

\He said anal
\\Penis

Here is an article from the NIH that states Haskell County was the source of the Spanish influenza.

Soldiers from Fort Riley had come home to Haskell County, Kansas then returned to Fort Riley just two days before the first cases occurred at Riley.

Haskell County had already had its bout of Spanish influenza starting in January 1918.

erveek
Every time I hear anything about the Flu Pandemic, I think of this song. (new window)

That was hilarious. I am so going to Hell.

/Window seat please.
// Is there a movie on this trip?

I call bullshiat on this. *cough cough*

Dig up his grave!! Pull out his tongue!!!

/Homer Simpson.