He reiterated his perspective later, serving on the public discussion panel. Dennis Klinman, M.D., Ph.D., called genetic engineering child s play, in today s modern lab. Dennis points to incredible advances over past ten years and the good number of graduate students familiar with them. While he was aware of historical evidence of the difficulty the U.S. had researching biological weapons, modern medicine and recent public health outbreaks illustrate the danger which we face. Mike emphasized the importance of preparing the public health infrastructure to be prepared.
Mother nature can accomplish many tricks.
HIV and other recent infections demonstrate new threats and evolution to avoid the body s natural defense. Looking into the future, may one day be able to vaccinate through breakfast cereal. Could foresee the release of drug resistant infections to challenge health system. Pneumococcus and TB are examples. Other recent viruses, Ebola, yellow fever, hantavirus, etc., raise concern as biological threats.