Why do viruses kill? - BBC Horizon (HD)

Just months ago (at time of airing), the world stood in fear of an emerging new disease that threatened to kill millions. A new flu variant H1N1 had arrived. In the UK alone, 65,000 deaths were predicted. Yet to date, these dire warnings have not materialised.
If this latest pandemic has taught anything, it is just how little is understood about the invisible world of viruses. But that has not stopped scientists trying.
Horizon follows the leading researchers from across the world, who are attempting to unravel the many secrets of viruses to understand when and why they kill.

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[sthazeb]

@movcrit well fair enough. I wont say i am biased as such, but i do have what i would call "healthy sceptisism" against anything possibly unneccesary entering my body. Here (in Denmark) we also try to debunk bogus statements, which is why im still looking for the original article via archives online, as to "prove" what i was saying. I wish you the best of luck in your "war" against "pseudo" science.

[movcrit]

@sthazeb Here in the U. S. (at least around Universities), we check claims and citations to make sure pseudo science isn't being promoted especially around subjects where pseudo science has entered (ie vaccines).

It is true that there are some trace amounts of mercury in vaccinations but the amount is less or as much as the fish you eat. Which brings up another important point, even if you knew what you were putting into your body how would you know it was appropriate or not?

[movcrit]

@sthazeb I'm just asking philosophical questions and attempting to challenge your assumptions. You've stated to check what makes up vaccines because it is a product that enters your body, I asked if you also check on the molecular or elemental level what you drink because it is also a product that enters your body. I want to know if you have an irrational bias against vaccines.

[sthazeb]

@movcrit and just to be clear... you are mocking me right? (im especially wondering about the what i drink question...? im not saying don't take the vaccine, im saying know whats in it before you inject it or face the potential consequences. whether or not you take it is up to you. (or was since it's not really relevant right now as the "epidemic" died down... sort of...) but you can't deny that vaccines have killed people before, and has had questionable content.

[sthazeb]

@movcrit if i find a link for the article i will post it.

[sthazeb]

@movcrit i dont think i know what i drink, hell i don't, in Denmark (where im from) and eu in general (don't know about the states) all the nasty stuff in our food/drinks are "censored" with E numbers, which you will then have to write down, and find on a list of what the E numbers mean. As for the study i believe it was conducted by a danish news paper, but a quick google of "h1n1 vaccine mercury", turns up alot of stuff about "thimerosal" which is mercury based. And so the reading continues.

[movcrit]

@sthazeb what study and published where? Do you even know the chemical make of what you drink?

[sthazeb]

@DurexDurpaneu2 well actually an independent study did show that some of the vaccines had an "unidentified" "biological organism" in them. Along with other nice stuff like mercury... so in some cases i too would say, don't take the h1n1 vaccine, also because there was at one point talks about making the vaccine mandatory (and everyone remembers those flu vaccines from the 70's and 80's right? those that killed people...?) so go ahead; im a nut saying; "know what you inject before you inject it"

[DurexDurpaneu2]

If I ever see that conspiracy theory cunt that kept telling people not to get the vaccine for h1n1 on the street, I will knock his fucking teeth out!

[Inediblehulk]

Monkeypox, yes?