• Virus 'mix-up' by lab could have resulted in pandemic
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[quote=News]t's emerged that virulent H5N1 bird flu was sent out by accident from an Austrian lab last year and given to ferrets in the Czech Republic before anyone realised. As well as the risk of it escaping into the wild, the H5N1 got mixed with a human strain, which might have spawned a hybrid that could unleash a pandemic. Last December, the Austrian branch of US vaccine company Baxter sent a batch of ordinary human H3N2 flu, altered so it couldn't replicate, to Avir Green Hills Biotechnology, also in Austria. In February, a lab in the Czech Republic working for Avir alerted Baxter that, unexpectedly, ferrets inoculated with the sample had died. It turned out the sample contained live H5N1, which Baxter uses to make vaccine. The two seem to have been mixed in error. Markus Reinhard of Baxter says no one was infected because the H3N2 was handled at a high level of containment. But Ab Osterhaus of Erasmus University in the Netherlands says: "We need to go to great lengths to make sure this kind of thing doesn't happen." Accidental release of a mixture of live H5N1 and H3N2 viruses could have resulted in dire consequences. While H5N1 doesn't easily infect people, H3N2 viruses do. If someone exposed to a mixture of the two had been simultaneously infected with both strains, he or she could have served as an incubator for a hybrid virus able to transmit easily to and among people.[/quote] It's a good thing Obama's new Universal HealthCare is right around the corner, all those vaccines will save us from the virus that... they produced? :tinfoil: source: [url]http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Health--Science/Science/Virus-mix-up-by-lab-could-have-resulted-in-pandemic/articleshow/4230882.cms[/url]
Oh fuck oh fuck were gonna be poor [editline]10:31PM[/editline] sick*
Haha. Them Aussies are at it again!
[QUOTE=gamefreekv2;16182585]Haha. Them Aussies are at it again![/QUOTE] Austria not Australia
[QUOTE=AwpersAreBad;16182634]Austria not Australia[/QUOTE] Oh shit, I swear it said Australia. Fuck these eyes!
:o
[QUOTE=ShukaidoX;16182535]It's a good thing Obama's new Universal HealthCare is right around the corner, all those vaccines will save us from the virus that... they produced? :tinfoil:[/QUOTE] Don't tell me you're trying to blame this on Obama and universal healthcare.
We want something to be scared about so our lives aren't so boring.
omg! :O o_o
Austria huh? GO! RUN! GET TO DA CHOPPA!
[QUOTE=Funcoot;16182757]Don't tell me you're trying to blame this on Obama and universal healthcare.[/QUOTE] I'm not trying to blame him. I just find it oddly coincidental that this pandemic is going on relatively the same time Obama is pushing for Universal Health Care, which we as a country obviously cannot afford. But hey, if the make the vaccinations mandatory then imagine the amount of money the pharmaceutical companies would make? I do not find it surprising in the slightest that pharms are also one of the biggest lobbyists in Washington.
"oops" here comes discussions about american things
[QUOTE=ShukaidoX;16182838]I'm not trying to blame him. I just find it oddly coincidental that this pandemic is going on relatively the same time Obama is pushing for Universal Health Care, which we as a country obviously cannot afford. But hey, if the make the vaccinations mandatory then imagine the amount of money the pharmaceutical companies would make? I do not find it surprising in the slightest that pharms are also one of the biggest lobbyists in Washington.[/QUOTE] Maybe he's pushing for Universal Health Care because he's... a lefty?
[QUOTE=lmaoboat;16182886]Maybe he's pushing for Universal Health Care because he's... a lefty?[/QUOTE] There's that. But like I said, its an odd coincidence and with this article I do believe that some eyebrows should be raised.
[QUOTE=ShukaidoX;16185481]There's that. But like I said, its an odd coincidence and with this article I do believe that some eyebrows should be raised.[/QUOTE] Not really, that's like saying a democrat pushing for gun control right before a school shooting is a coincidence,
omg it's like deus ex.
oh another conspiracy thread you sure like making these, huh?
i dont get vaccine
Damn Austrians and their genocides.
also if you want people to believe you, stop posting bull shit sources like "the india times" and "birdflu666" where is ventilated when you need him, this isn't news
Goddamn Madagascar...
[QUOTE=rilez;16185964]also if you want people to believe you, stop posting bull shit sources like "the india times" and "birdflu666" where is ventilated when you need him, this isn't news[/QUOTE] Are you saying that India doesn't have a single reputable news source? Do you honestly expect that kind of thing to be noted and talked about in the American media? You must be joking.
[QUOTE=ShukaidoX;16182838]I'm not trying to blame him. I just find it oddly coincidental that this pandemic is going on relatively the same time Obama is pushing for Universal Health Care, which we as a country obviously cannot afford. But hey, if the make the vaccinations mandatory then imagine the amount of money the pharmaceutical companies would make? I do not find it surprising in the slightest that pharms are also one of the biggest lobbyists in Washington.[/QUOTE] So... Obama is infecting people with a virus to make people lean toward Universal Health Care? Lol.
Ok, now we REALLY should rename it Captain Trips.
[QUOTE=gnome;16186608]So... Obama is infecting people with a virus to make people lean toward Universal Health Care? Lol.[/QUOTE] No, that isn't what I was getting at at all. I was saying that I find it odd that a supposed "mix-up" causes a virus to go pandemic, and right around the corner we see Universal Health Care and a handy dandy new vaccine to treat it. [editline]01:51AM[/editline] [QUOTE=lmaoboat;16185547]Not really, that's like saying a democrat pushing for gun control right before a school shooting is a coincidence,[/QUOTE] School shootings aren't caused by a "mix-up" at a government biochemical weapons laboratory, either. That comparison doesn't make any sense. Besides, this discussion has nothing to do with Left or Right anyway, it is non-partisan.
[QUOTE=ShukaidoX;16186785]No, that isn't what I was getting at at all. I was saying that I find it odd that a supposed "mix-up" causes a virus to go pandemic, and right around the corner we see Universal Health Care and a handy dandy new vaccine to treat it.[/QUOTE] Again, you're still trying to "get at" something without actually saying it. If that's what you weren't implying then prove otherwise by telling me what you [i]were[/i] implying, as opposed to making another vague implication.
Not the ferrets! [editline]02:41AM[/editline] They're so cute and cuddly!
Facepalm anyone?
[QUOTE=gamefreekv2;16182585]Haha. Them Aussies are at it again![/QUOTE] Fuck you.
Not fucking you again...
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