New Controversy Erupts As It Is
Revealed Select Scientists Have Been Playing Around With Flu Virus To
Create Super Strain
The Site Has Been Proven Right
Again
December 5. 2011
Previously, the Judiciary Report wrote about the swine flu outbreak that
occurred in 2009, labeling that particular strain a designer disease
someone created in a lab (May 2, 2009 Swine
Flu Outbreak Baffles Governments). Two weeks later, the
developer of Tamiflu, Adrian Gibbs, stated he is of the belief the outbreak
was due to "human error" (May 13, 2009 Swine
Flu Reboot Being Attributed To Human Error).
Three weeks ago, on November 17, 2011 a report was made public that
alarmed people, as it stated certain scientists have been secretly playing
with the swine flu virus in their labs, attempting to create a super
strain, which is dangerous, but it proves my claims from 2 YEARS AGO that
the 2009 swine flu outbreak was due to human error. I was the first to
state this and my articles have been copyrighted and published for 2
YEARS.
The outbreak was a designer disease. It was smart in nature, bobbing and
weaving, regarding the levels of resistance it put up. It was as though
that particular strain knew what to expect and how to maneuver around it,
against what was presently available at the time.
I flat out stated in the May 13, 2009 article Swine
Flu Reboot Being Attributed To Human Error
was the
result of "someone playing around in a lab and
got it very wrong. The question is, who rebooted this flu... I
stand by my view, as this flu had unusual properties attributed to
it, like it has a mind of its own."
STORY SOURCE
Bird Flu Research Rattles Bioterrorism Field
November 17, 2011 - Scientists and security specialists
are in the midst of a fierce debate over recent experiments on a strain of
bird flu virus that made it more contagious. The big question:
Should the results be made public? Critics say doing so could potentially
reveal how to make powerful new bioweapons.
The H5N1 virus has been circulating among birds and other animals in
recent years. It's also infected about 500 people. More than half died. But
this dangerous virus has not caused widespread human disease because, so
far, sick people haven't been very contagious.
If the virus evolves to spread as easily between people as seasonal flu,
however, it could cause a devastating global pandemic. So in an attempt to
stay ahead of H5N1, scientists have been tweaking its genes in the lab to
learn more about how this virus works, and what it is capable of.
In September, one scientist made a stunning announcement. At a flu
conference held in Malta, he said he'd done a lab experiment that resulted
in bird flu virus becoming highly contagious between ferrets — the animal
model used to study human flu infection. It seemed that just five mutations
did the trick.
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 for them to publish
how they did it so others can copy it. News of the results raised red flags
for Dr. Thomas Inglesby, a bioterrorism expert and director of the Center
for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
"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 for them to publish how they did it so others can copy it,"
says Inglesby. No science journal has published the information yet. And
Inglesby hopes none of them do.
Biology research usually has a culture of openness. Scientists report
their methods and results so others can repeat their work and learn from it.
Inglesby agrees that's the way to go the vast majority of the time. But not
this time. "There are some cases that I think are worth an exception to
that otherwise very important scientific principle," he says. "I
can only imagine that the process of deliberating about the publication of
these findings is quite serious."
The researcher who presented these findings at the science meeting is
virologist Ron Fouchier, of the Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands.
NPR has learned that his work is now under scrutiny by a committee called
the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity.
That's a committee of independent experts the U. S. government set up to
give advice on how to deal with biological research that's legitimately
important to science but that also could be misused. It can make nonbinding
recommendations about such things as whether the findings should be
published.
NPR asked Fouchier by email if he intended to publish the details of his
study. He replied that he preferred not to comment until the committee made
a formal decision. Research on new and worrisome forms of influenza is a
case study showing how, a decade after 9/11 and the anthrax attacks,
scientists are still grappling with how to handle sensitive biological
research, says John Steinbruner, director of the Center for International
and Security Studies at the University of Maryland.
"We really do need to develop a better oversight process and a
better way of organizing global judgments about very, very dangerous lines
of research," says Steinbruner. "And we haven't yet done it."
Scientists say they do think hard about these issues. Princeton's Lynn
Enquist, editor in chief of the Journal of Virology, says he and his
colleagues carefully considered whether to publish a flu study submitted to
the journal that appears in the December issue.
"You have to say, 'Is there more benefit than there is risk?' and
that was our judgment on this one, that that was indeed the case," says
Enquist. In that experiment, researchers had taken a bird flu gene and put
it in the swine flu virus that started spreading between people a couple of
years ago. Mice infected with this lab-created virus got very, very sick.
But Enquist says, this altered virus didn't spread easily. And he points
out that this kind of virus combination could happen as bird flu circulates
out in nature. "Scientists in the United States and all around the
world are very curious as to how this thing is going to evolve because we
have to be prepared for it," says Enquist. "The public would
expect us to be prepared."
As part of that effort to get ready, scientists from the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention have been doing work to see how bird flu
could adapt to humans. This month, in a different journal called Virology,
they described how they created two new versions of the bird flu virus that
could spread between ferrets in a limited way.
A spokesperson said no one from the CDC would be made available to
comment. And efforts to speak with officials at the National Institutes of
Health, which funds flu research, were unsuccessful.
http://www.npr.org
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