-Caveat Lector- When you read material such as this, one wonders - as Hughey Long said "when fascism comes it will come in disguise".......when the food shortages materialize we will see the likes of a Jack the Ripper materializing in London - for when the public shows their teeth - governments become frightened? Germ warfare: Threat from mutant superbugs More on germ warfare experiments - Video here The thought of catching a cold and then getting cancer is horrifying. Such a scenario has come a big step closer - British scientists trying to make new mutant superbugs out of human cancer genes and viruses closely related to strains causing common cold. Although designed to help find cancer cure, the possibility of accidental escape is alarming. Even more worrying is the thought that a hundred similar or more dangerous experiments may be going on that we have yet to find out about. Licences are granted every week for work that many might find distasteful, unethical, or dangerous - humanising pigs or fish with extra genes, or releasing new microbes into the environment. This is work few want to talk about for fear of public reaction. The British government admitted in mid 1998 that more than a million people were sprayed from the air in secret germ warfare tests during the 1970s. The strain used was a "harmless" e-coli bacterium together with bacillus globigii. 150 miles of coastline and land 30 miles inland was exposed. Any human, animal, insect or plant gene can now be added to any microbe - Hundreds of such experiments every day - Same technology for human cloning, designer babies, superveg or superbreeds used to make superbugs. Superbugs most powerful gene inventions of all. Each new strain has ability of massive biochemical factory - able to make complex substances like human insulin in a mere test-tube. Other strains have power to destroy. Researchers need dangerous viruses to develop vaccines and find cures. Fears over safety justified however - same University lost control of smallpox virus in 1978 - woman died - near catastrophe only prevented because hospital staff immunised against smallpox years ago - national vaccination now stopped - similar escape in ten years time could cause huge epidemic. Escapes happened before - in 1973 smallpox virus was released by laboratory in London - two died. In 1985 workers at the same laboratory narrowly missed death when smallpox ampoules were found lying in a biscuit tin in a fridge - dated 1952 but still deadly. Accidents happen. No vaccine against many new mutant microbes - potential for use as weapons - Porton Down Germ Warfare laboratory is worried - intensive efforts to prepare for germ warfare defence revealed in letter from Director of Porton Down (Parliamentary written answer). Fears of germ weapons in Gulf War - repeated claims by servicemen of possible exposure - long term effects on people and environment - Second World War experiment with anthrax spores on Gruinard Island in Scotland - uninhabitable for fifty years. Porton Down holds germ weapon stocks to test protective suits. Hard to predict danger from mutant bugs - most are not infectious, harmless and perish fast after release - experiments with soil bugs in agriculture - but limited field trials found released microbes can survive in fields and lakes - unauthorised release already happening on small scale. Gene changes in one country have potential to affect a whole continent, and ultimately the planet as a whole. Medical disaster is one thing, perhaps a highly infectious version of HIV, or a new cancer epidemic. Environmental contamination is another. Microbes can travel fast in dust, in water, on car wheels, on clothing, on animals. Risks regarded as very low by most experts - but price of serious error impossible to imagine. Already MPs calling for Gene Charter covering ethical and safety issues. Each new headline on gene research show how current legislation is running years behind the technology. However little point in controls if scientists can get on a plane and continue deadly experiments elsewhere. Nothing less than international agreement will do. In most countries of the world much more dangerous experiments are permitted than the ones banned in Britain this week. A world summit on biotechnology is urgently needed. Germ warfare ? Should scientists be told when to stop? 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