Captain Trips?

This has been a lurking fear of mine ever since I read The Stand 25 years ago.

Could super flu escape the laboratory?

A new paper estimates the risk of a laboratory-enhanced flu strain escaping said laboratory at between 5 and 60 percent. Maryn McKenna explains what that wide, wide spread actually means.

http://boingboing.net/2014/05/27/could-super-flu-escape-the-lab.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29

Great book, by the way.