Anakin_Solo Posted January 6, 2003 Share Posted January 6, 2003 I now know that the cold n' flu is a man made virus... geneticaly modified to alter over time, to give out new effects every time... has anyone noticed that the cold/flu seems to effect you differently over time? I member five to ten years ago it would put people into bed for a week, now we struggle to work/college and just have really sore heads, and runny noses.. Do you think the drug companies are in conspiracy to sell their products ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ET Warrior Posted January 6, 2003 Share Posted January 6, 2003 Actually, the flu has always been a pretty nasty disease, people used to die from the flu before we developed proper medication. And the cold virus has adapted from it's original form because as soon as you catch the cold your body becomes immune to that form of cold. there are actually millions of forms of the cold virus and they'll all effect you differently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griff38 Posted January 6, 2003 Share Posted January 6, 2003 Don't buy it, for one thing I have never had a flu, I guess maybe once or twice I had a small cold. Besides you don't need humans to get genetically altered lifeforms. Just look at Evolution. Everything alive is genetically altered from something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoguePhotonic Posted January 6, 2003 Share Posted January 6, 2003 I can say AIDS is man made for sure...not a doubt in my mind....but the cold virus?...naw..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GonkH8er Posted January 7, 2003 Share Posted January 7, 2003 Neither the AIDS virus or the flu virus were manmade.... They've been round for longer than we've had the technology to even look at viruses, let alone create them. What point would there be in creating the AIDS virus anyway? To kill out hundreds of african people? To be a pest to mankind? The only reason to create viruses would be for biological warfare, or possibly for money making schemes. AIDS wouldn't work as a warfare agent particularly well, and there's no vaccine, so it wasn't made for money making. And the flu has been around for at least 200 years, probably much more. It's been evolving and mutating into new strands, some particularly virulent, some not so much. So that rules the flu out. They occur in nature... they're not manmade. The first time we catch a cold or the flu, we're incredibly vulnerable to it, as our body has ever encountered the antigen before. Our body's immune system fights the invasion, and almost always wins. It's a pretty detailed process, but to cut it short, the body then remembers this virus.... so the next time it comes, the body recognises it, and is quick and efficient at sorting out the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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