Quote Originally Posted by rebeccabecca View Post
This is not about now it's about in the future. It's a hybrid virus so animals can get it pass it on back to people and evalution will make it more of a risk. Please watch this movie it'll tell you why we need to worry about this virus.
This H1N1 flu virus is no more or less a hybrid that any of the flu viruses out there. Do even minimal research into the background of flu as a virus and you would know that. And what is being discussed in that clip is not in any way related to the current flu hysteria

That movie is no more accurate than all the hype that has been put out by the mainstream news media outlets. It is overly dumbed down to reach the "average Joe" who hasn't got a whit of scientific knowledge and it has lost its message along the way. Notice that despite all his big talk and hand waving he did not really say all that much and he did not produce a shred of real evidence on the things he says he discovered (not that I am discounting them mind you, but once you learn to think like a scientist it is not something you drop) nor does he show in any way that the few cases he found were anything more than 'one of' situations. Do diseases pass between species? Yes, all the bloody time. Does that mean each time it is going to erupt into the next great plague? Not in the slightest. Diseases tend to be very host specific and when they make the jump 99.999% of the time it is a dead end jump because the new host is not a fit environment for the disease. So, will we keep seeing new and scary things pooping up in the future? Absolutely. But am I worried about Ebola becoming the next pandemic plague? Nope.