Comments on: A Global Success Story: Deadly Cattle Disease Is Wiped Off the Planet

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By: Brian Too

Brian Too — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 23:38:10 +0000

@5. Rabidmob,

I think perhaps you meant to direct your comment to @4. obsidian?

By: Angela

Angela — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:01:25 +0000

@Rabidmob, but what happens then if there’s a fire or somehow that one sample is destroyed? Then we have no more samples to use in case it or another similar virus emerges.

By: tim333

tim333 — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:13:09 +0000

@obsidian –

Well at least we get them to pass away relatively painlessly before sending then to meet their french fries.

By: Rabidmob

Rabidmob — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 05:38:43 +0000

In truth we’re probably setting up a house of cards when we eradicate viruses such as this. Sure it’s good for now, but how long until a disease with similar traits mutates and decimates a now completely defenseless species?

Of course I’m no virologist, I have no idea how such things occur or on what time scale. I do have doubts to the completeness of our wiping out of this disease, much the same as we found other things, supposedly extinct but living in small amounts.

As far as maintaining live copies of the disease and how much, really there is a simple answer, it should be done in 1 and only 1 facility.

@Brian Too, #3: Sure we kill them, but we do so with directed purpose, I mean in what way does killing it’s host help the disease? Besides we also keep a large number of them for milking purposes. I mean with cows, their species will likely survive for as long as we do, I think that’s pretty cool in some respects. Its a symbiosis of an nontraditional sort I suppose.

By: obsidian

obsidian — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 17:40:39 +0000

Wow so that means we get to kill them instead! Well done humanity…

By: Brian Too

Brian Too — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 23:43:52 +0000

That’s the second piece of good news this week, the first being those Chilean miners who all got out alive.

By: Zachary

Zachary — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 23:03:10 +0000

How would you even notice that a cow has autism, I consider most cows autistic by nature.

By: Rhacodactylus

Rhacodactylus — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 23:00:36 +0000

This is awesome, but how many of the cows developed autism? Thus begins the countdown to an info-tainment show using a bad pun about "herd immunity." My money is on the Today show, but they're probably even money with fox news. ~Rhaco