US Paid For The Dutch H5N1 WEAPONIZING Research?
~ The Rebel ~
2012/01/07 13:53:33
The young scientist, normally calm and measured, seemed edgy when he stopped by
his boss's office.
"You are not going to believe this one," he told Ron
Fouchier, a virologist at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam. "I think we
have an airborne H5N1 virus."
The news, delivered one afternoon last
July, was chilling. It meant that Dr. Fouchier's research group had taken one of
the most dangerous flu viruses ever known and made it even more dangerous - by
tweaking it genetically to make it more contagious.
What shocked the
researchers was how easy it had been, Dr. Fouchier said. Just a few mutations
was all it took to make the virus go airborne.
The discovery has led
advisers to the United States government, which paid for the research, to urge
that the details be kept secret and not published in scientific journals to
prevent the work from being replicated by terrorists, hostile governments or
rogue scientists.
Journal editors are taking the recommendation
seriously, even though they normally resist any form of censorship. Scientists,
too, usually insist on their freedom to share information, but fears of
terrorism have led some to say this information is too dangerous to
share.
Some biosecurity experts have even said that no scientist should
have been allowed to create such a deadly germ in the first place, and they warn
that not just the blueprints but the virus itself could somehow leak or be
stolen from the laboratory.
Dr. Fouchier is cooperating with the request
to withhold some data, but reluctantly. He thinks other scientists need the
information.
his boss's office.
"You are not going to believe this one," he told Ron
Fouchier, a virologist at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam. "I think we
have an airborne H5N1 virus."
The news, delivered one afternoon last
July, was chilling. It meant that Dr. Fouchier's research group had taken one of
the most dangerous flu viruses ever known and made it even more dangerous - by
tweaking it genetically to make it more contagious.
What shocked the
researchers was how easy it had been, Dr. Fouchier said. Just a few mutations
was all it took to make the virus go airborne.
The discovery has led
advisers to the United States government, which paid for the research, to urge
that the details be kept secret and not published in scientific journals to
prevent the work from being replicated by terrorists, hostile governments or
rogue scientists.
Journal editors are taking the recommendation
seriously, even though they normally resist any form of censorship. Scientists,
too, usually insist on their freedom to share information, but fears of
terrorism have led some to say this information is too dangerous to
share.
Some biosecurity experts have even said that no scientist should
have been allowed to create such a deadly germ in the first place, and they warn
that not just the blueprints but the virus itself could somehow leak or be
stolen from the laboratory.
Dr. Fouchier is cooperating with the request
to withhold some data, but reluctantly. He thinks other scientists need the
information.
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Unfortunately, what with the likes of Obama, Axlerod, Emanuel, Sebilious, Napolitano, Holder, etc being privy to above top secret stuff in this regime, that assurance does not exist.
Remember, most if not all of them firmly believe that a disaster shouldn't go unwasted in attempts to hold onto power. We'll be seeing much more of this in coming months.