Timothy Birdnow

In our civilizational quest to make ourselves extinct, the FDA has taken yet another step by approving an Ebola vaccine using LIVE Ebola virus!

From the article the vaccine can shed live viruses, leading to immuno-suppression and infection. 

According to the insert given by Merck:

" Transmission of vaccine virus is a theoretical possibility. Vaccine virus RNA has been detected in blood, saliva, or urine for up to 14 days after vaccination. The duration of shedding is not known; however, samples taken 28 days after vaccination tested negative. Vaccine virus RNA has been detected in fluid from skin vesicles that appeared after vaccination.”

So you may be contagious after receiving the vaccination!

The vaccine may also cause immunosuppression, as well as interfere with test results.

In short, you are getting Ebola, just a milder case of it.

Now filoviruses are composed of RNA (not DNA) and are prone to mutation. This is worrisome; once in the body they may well mutate and become very dangerous. We do NOT need a plague of Ebola!  Ebola makes you bleed everywhere. If it were to become an airborn illness, one like a flu virus, the results would be catastrophic.

We've used weakened but living viruses for vaccines before, but never one so dangerous as Ebola. In fact, there was a time when live Smallpox was used as a vaccine; nobody took it, because you essentially got Smallpox. It wasn't until the discovery of Cowpox vaccination by Edward Jenner in 1796 that a practical Smallpox vaccine became possible.

Humanity has become increasingly reckless in modern times, gambling with our own existence. CRISPR technology allows us to cut and paste genes in any fashion we like, giving us the potetntial to create monstrous, evil diseases. I fear recombinant DNA technology far more than I do atomic weapons or any of the other modern boogaboos. We really could wipe ourselves out with some biological experiment gone awry. 

This one strikes me as a bad idea all around.

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