An uncontrollable, deadly virus ravages America, shutting down civilian institutions and triggering martial law. Vaccinations are compulsory, and there are mass quarantines throughout the country.
It’s the stuff of Hollywood — but rumors that it could be real are spreading like the flu in the blogosphere, where some people are loudly expressing their fears that the federal [...]
The best thing to do is, according to the phrase being used these days is “social distancing.” We’ve always called it separation, and it works rather well.
More than 700 people have died from the swine flu virus worldwide since H1N1 emerged in April, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said.
Twenty-nine of those deaths have been in [...]
It’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 [...]
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Noel Barrett and his team of researchers at Baxter International Inc. labs in Vienna have been through this before.
Following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, they were part of a multi-company effort to produce more than 150 million dosages of small pox vaccine.
More recently, Deerfield, Ill.-based Baxter developed millions of dosages of a bird flu [...]
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Baxter International was the company that had released contaminated flu virus material a few months back that contained live H5N1 avian flu viruses.
Source/Full Story:: Baxter International: Product contained live bird flu virus |Toronto Sun
The
company that released contaminated flu virus material from a plant in
Austria confirmed Friday that the experimental product contained live
H5N1 [...]
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