Reply #98: Apples and Oranges. Bacteria do not mutate

[Lyric]

as rapidly as viruses do, therefore they are by nature less dangerous than viruses. I could believe, with evidence, that they might try to kill off the overseas competition, but they'd never expose *themselves* to harm--and that is precisely what would happen if they deliberately released a deadly virus in North America. Antibiotics can help save us from bacterial infections, even awful ones, but viral infections are impossible to "cure," and influenza is one of the worst in this regard, because we can't even make decent vaccines for it. It mutates too fast for an "antidote" or vaccine to work for very long.