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Scientists Concerned About New BIRD FLU Vaccine Research | |
| cRoSS FiRe Offer Upgrade  User ID: 3644066  United States11/29/2011 09:09 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Research on the bird flu virus that involved creating a highly contagious strain has some scientists worried that the findings could lead to the development of a bioweapon, according to numerous media outlets. At a European flu conference in September, Ron Fouchier, a scientist at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, doing vaccine research presented his work on H5N1, the virus that causes bird flu. By infecting ferrets with different altered strains of the virus manufactured in the laboratory, he and his colleagues discovered a form of the virus that was lethal and easily spread through the air. Fouchier explained it took only five mutations for the virus to become extremely contagious. Before Fouchier's research is published in a scientific journal, it is undergoing review by the U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB), a government committee tasked with assessing research known as "dual use," meaning it has scientific value, but could also pose a threat to public health.  More here: [link to abcnews.go.com] "Nothing is as far away as one minute ago." --Jim Bishop :gameizovar: It's DO:OM o'clock. WAKE UP! |
| cRoSS FiRe (OP) User ID: 3644066 United States11/29/2011 09:21 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | But one scientist not affiliated with NSABB, Dr. Thomas Inglesby, director of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's Center for Biosecurity, told NPR this research should not be made public. "It's just a bad idea for scientists to turn a lethal virus into a lethal and highly contagious virus, and it's a second bad idea to publish how they did it so others can copy it," Inglesby said. "Nothing is as far away as one minute ago." --Jim Bishop :gameizovar: It's DO:OM o'clock. WAKE UP! |
| cRoSS FiRe (OP) User ID: 3644066 United States11/29/2011 11:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation |  Two more links in the thread below. Thread: Scientists mutate bird flu to make it MORE contagious - but critics claim the 'bioweapon' must be kept secret "Nothing is as far away as one minute ago." --Jim Bishop :gameizovar: It's DO:OM o'clock. WAKE UP! |
