Flu chip fights pig plague

As swine-flu mania continues to suck up every available nanosecond of fear-mongering media maundering, one small company has developed a sure-fire way to detect the potent piggy pathogen. CombiMatrix, a biotech firm in Mukilteo, Washington, announced Friday that it has updated the microarray in its Influenza A Detection System …

[dr2chase]

if it's accurate and not too expensive

that would actually be very useful. part of the problem with quarantines, travel bans, etc, is that they cannot be made both effective and not-too-inconvenient when you have a bug that spreads quickly and begins with generic symptoms.

[Craig Taylor]

Other fast companies

Another biotech company with virus identification technology that's on the ball is Luminex. Check it out at:

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=79403&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1282881&highlight=

[adnim]

That's all well enough, but...

am I going to get a mailbox full off spam about this?

I went to my doctor yesterday for a swine flu test... He asked me how I was feeling.

After I told him I was feeling perky...

He said... "Well, that explains it then, you would have been better off keeping your hands to yourself".

[Anonymous Coward]

Easier and faster check...

http://doihaveswineflu.org/

[amanfromMars]

Future Reality Game looking for Players with Virtual Balls in Yin *

"The company's Influenza A Detection System isn't limited to detecting evil swine sequences. CombiMatrix says that it can identify any known flu variant, including "novel strains" produced by rapid mutation or recombinations of multiple strains."

:-) With the important operative word, "novel", in quotes. Good to see El Reg recognising the corrupt programming. Bravo.

Of course, that now opens up a whole new ball game, which is actually a head Game, which is actually QuITe Perfect ARG Territory for Immaculate Deadheads into AIMMORPGames ...... Temporal Quests?

And that Question, quite Naturally, to Alex Allen of the Joint Intelligence Committee, who may even have balls enough to reply smartly, rather than Fluffing the Opportunity Servering Muttering Puppets with no IDea at All of the IP Ranged against their Binary Incompetence and Digital Disaster Recovery Programming.

* Yang being Future Virtual Game looking for Real Ball Players ...... for the Inclusive Power Lead of Venus Flowers.

[Charles Manning]

Get it all in context

*Regular flu has killed more people than swine flu during the last few weeks.

*One day sees more tuberculosis and malaria deaths than all the swine flu deaths in the last few weeks.

In part that's due to good isolation practices. No doubt if health authorities had not been so hardball there would be a lot more places in the world with larger number outbreaks.

[Christian Berger]

It's not swine flu...

... it's "A flu named Babe"

[Anonymous Coward]

I called the NHS helpline

...to find out more about this but I only got crackling on the line.

[Ben Hutchings]

Pig mask...

Thought y'all might like this. Not sure if we're allowed to post links but here goes!

http://teepay.com/frontend/showtee/163