Scientists eradicate cattle plague. Second Disease to be Eradicated (Video in Source) - Polidicks

On topic: This is very nice. Now get to work on the other virii (Is that the plural form of virus?). Fuck my automerge...

[QUOTE=ChristopherB;30129047]Didn't we eradicate Polio too?[/QUOTE] No, it still affects many across the world. It's disappointing but hopefully it will follow.

[QUOTE=ChristopherB;30129047]Didn't we eradicate Polio too?[/QUOTE] No, we just have a cure for it. Eradication is basically making them extinct in the wild. Only this and smallpox have that status.

fun fact: both russia and the us still have smallpox strains kept in their lab, just in case

[QUOTE=del-re-re;30127091]what if we kept HITLER around??!?! hmmmmmmm???[/QUOTE] :godwin:

[QUOTE=DimJim;30131350]fun fact: both russia and the us still have smallpox strains kept in their lab, just in case[/QUOTE] Biological Weapons :science:

Good job civilization, good job enlightenment, good job human determination, one more glorious triumph over Mother Nature and all her fickle and arbitrary cruelty.

[QUOTE=VistaPOWA;30126452]Viruses (or virii) can be hardly considered lifeforms.[/QUOTE] The plural is not virii, if you go about saying that people are going to make fun of you.

Small pox isnt 100% eradicated the CDC still has some for testing

[QUOTE=TripleM;30132248]Small pox isnt 100% eradicated the CDC still has some for testing[/QUOTE] It might as well be, it's not leaving the CDC's Petri dishes any time soon.

[QUOTE=Sobotnik;30126494]Who cares the humans got on top, we are staying there and we will damn well stay there until the end of time.[/QUOTE] You badass mother fucker, telling it how it is.

[QUOTE=DesolateGrun;30142749]You badass mother fucker, telling it how it is.[/QUOTE] Brofist.

[QUOTE=Pythagoras64;30126400]I mean yeah it's good that the disease is gone, but something just rubs me the wrong way about this. It's not like it's a sentient being we eradicated, but we only have so many different forms of life on earth, it almost seems like a crime.[/QUOTE]There are millions upon millions upon millions of species of microorganisms, the Earth's ecosystem can manage just fine without this one.

[QUOTE=DimJim;30131350]fun fact: both russia and the us still have smallpox strains kept in their lab, just in case[/QUOTE] [B]Fun Fact:[/B] The US had a contingency plan during Vietnam in case the Chinese come to the aid of the NVA that involved carpet bombing of major medical supply producing centers followed by the release of both smallpox and the Plague in major population centers.

[b]Fun Fact:[/b] Polio was almost eradicated 10 years ago, but in 2003 several Nigerian states [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6919307.stm]boycotted the vaccine[/url], claiming it was a Western conspiracy and contained either infertility agents, mind control agents or HIV. As a result 20 previously eradicated countries were reinfected, and it is estimated that over 1000 children were paralysed for life by polio as a direct result of the boycott. Polio still hasn't been anywhere near as close to eradication as it was before the boycott. Similarly, measles was set to eradicated in Europe by 2010, but because of the MMR controversy it's still around

[QUOTE=smurfy;30144863][b]Fun Fact:[/b] Polio was almost eradicated 10 years ago, but in 2003 several Nigerian states [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6919307.stm]boycotted the vaccine[/url], claiming it was a Western conspiracy and contained either infertility agents, mind control agents or HIV. As a result 20 previously eradicated countries were reinfected, and it is estimated that over 1000 children were paralysed for life by polio as a direct result of the boycott. Polio still hasn't been anywhere near as close to eradication as it was before the boycott. Similarly, measles was set to eradicated in Europe by 2010, but because of the MMR controversy it's still around[/QUOTE] Sources?

[QUOTE=Van-man;30126619]Time doesn't end, since it's a fictive thing we've created based on the cycle of earth, the sun and the moon.[/QUOTE] :doh: Time isn't fictive

[QUOTE=DimJim;30131350]fun fact: both russia and the us still have smallpox strains kept in their lab, just in case[/QUOTE] I think that we have 3 years left to study it before we destroy it, though. Let me find the article. [url]http://articles.latimes.com/2011/may/24/news/la-heb-smallpox-delay-20110524[/url]

Y'know, something I never got, how can they completely eradicate a micro-organism species? if just a single one is left it doubles itself every 20 minutes or so.

[QUOTE=Spycrabz;30147257]Y'know, something I never got, how can they completely eradicate a micro-organism species? if just a single one is left it doubles itself every 20 minutes or so.[/QUOTE] If everyone, or at least a large majority, become immune, then it runs out of hosts and dies. It is possible for it to hide out in other organisms and reappear, though. That's the argument for keeping around deadly infectious diseases like smallpox, plague, certain strains of flu, etc.