PROJECT BLUE
November 17, 2009
by JAMES TENAFLY
Bored scientists in Lyon, France are acting out the premise of Stephen King’s The Stand. In an attempt to better understand just how fucked we’ll be when a real superflu comes along, virologists at the Jean Mérieux/INSERM facility are blending genetic material from the highly contagious H1N1 virus, known everywhere as swine flu, with its more lethal cousin H5N1, aka avian flu. The researchers hope to determine whether, left to their own devices, the two viruses might reassort to create a disease with the worst traits of both its progenitors. All this leaves one to wonder if there’s a ban on horror in France? That would seem the only logical explanation for a bunch of presumably intelligent scientists living out the most cliched zombie movie plot ever.
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Rominel: Hey, I know! Why not mix all the STDs in the world and see what we come up with..!
3 months ago
mikeambs: I do love me some zombie cliche virus outbreak stories :)
3 months ago
Taipan: Yay, finally pigs shall fly!
3 months ago
caisasoze: Lyon is alright day-time. flu is bad in every possible way! I had swine flu in my eye just a few weeks ago. zombie-eye!!!
3 months ago
MasonAndersonsweet: awesome - we're all fucked.
3 months ago
localola: has anyone been to Lyon, France? it is pretty boring.
3 months ago
LaserTag: can we get sars up in that mix too?
3 months ago
willyb: let's mix all the animal flus together in a big cauldron and see what happens.
3 months ago
waitwait: it's like they're making the entire world touch the iron to see if it's still hot. this is idiotic.
3 months ago
augustiniak: good analogy. it's true. it sounds like we are currently in the beginning 5 minutes of a movie when you and your friends are discussing how unrealistic it is that scientist are just so stupid as too create a mutant disease just to see what happens.
3 months ago
sbay33: swine flu is the iron, bird flu is the bathtub the power cord is dipped in
3 months ago
flasksandmasks: i don't believe in swine flu.
3 months ago
GPT: seriously. it's an urban legend.
3 months ago
localola: my mom "had it." she survived. i think it's a hoax.
3 months ago