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Originally posted by alphageek31337
man now. A mutant strain of the virus that causes the common cold is now deadly. And this mutation would, probably, have never happened except that people have a bad habit of assaulting their bodies with drugs and other medicines anytime they get a tickle in their throats.
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Uhh, no. Those drugs don't affect the cold virus, so they cannot be responsible for its evolution. Overuse of antibiotics is a bad thing for other reasons, but not for mutating the common cold.
However, one genius managed to graft the business end of Ebola into a cold virus. Supposedly a weakened cold virus which couldn't spread, and done under serious containment, but still...
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fight it before, and now can't. Now I'm not advising that we stop using drugs to treat illnesses, but we ought to stop using them to treat illnesses our bodies can fight. Between that, and allowing genetic deformations to stay in the gene pool, and be passed on to children, we are becoming a weaker species.
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True, but I'm not about to sterilize myself over my 20/400 eyesight. What we need is a way to remove these genetic deformations at the source. Alas, I suspect enough regulations will be placed on human gene research that it won't happen within my lifetime.
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