Early detection of bioterrorism
Apparently an invention has been made that can detect bioterrorism!
The Autonomous Pathogen Detection System, or APDS, continuously monitors the air like a “biological smoke detector”. Buildings such as airports will be equipped with this APDS system and would identify three types of biological agents: bacteria, viruses and toxins, including such familiar threats as anthrax, plague and botulinum toxin.
It’s the same thing done in a laboratory but without the paid employees. Furthermore, the machine does not take just one test, but two! This is inorder to protect the facility from a false alarm. The APDS would detect symptoms before the person even knew they had the infection, making viruses such as bird flu and SARS a fear of the past. No need for worry while in travel from one nation to another.
If the APDS were really to come to market and function as it should, what problems should we see from this? After all, an invention seems great in theory but actuall use of it varies. Just as Medications like Vioxx proved to us, testing should be painstakingly accurate with careful thorough research.
Here is what it looks like: http://www-phys.llnl.gov/Organization/MDivision/Research/apds.html
January 11th, 2005 at 3:50 pm
Truth is you never really know.
I dont think that Merek’s intention was to kill a lot of people. I would imagine that it all started with the idea to make a product that will help people and make some money on it. I am sure that their research was accurate to their knowledge, but sometimes things arrive that we didnt see coming.
January 14th, 2005 at 7:26 pm
That true but don’t they have testing to accomidate for long term problems? Either our current testing procedures are inadequate or they are not being done correctly. Either way, when a doctor prescribes me any kind of medication I don’t think of the health risk but of the positive effects. The reason why is due to the precentages of such a grim outcome to come about.
All medications and even prodcuts have warning labels that give possible medical conditions, but it doesn’t stop most consumers from purchasing the product.