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Flashback: Another Flu Pandemic Causing "Accident"
Occurred in 2005
Every time there is a pandemic scare, it comes from
a laboratory
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 Previous
to revelations just weeks ago that American vaccine company
Baxter Inc "accidentally" shipped
out vaccines contaminated with live avian flu virus,
a similar incident was reported in 2005.
In April of that year, both the New
Scientist and AP
reported that the virus that caused the 1957 "Asian flu"
pandemic, which killed 1 million to 4 million people, was "accidentally"
released by a lab in the US, and sent all over the world in
test kits.
The New Scientist report states:
The flu testing kits were sent to some 3700
labs between October 2004 and February 2005 by the College
of American Pathologists (CAP), a professional body which
helps pathology laboratories improve their accuracy, by sending
them unidentified samples of various germs to identify.
The CAP kits - prepared by private contractor Meridian Bioscience
in Cincinnati, US - were to contain a particular strain of
influenza A - the viral family that causes most flu worldwide.
But instead of choosing a strain from the hundreds of recently
circulating influenza A viruses, the firm chose the 1957 pandemic
strain.
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Because the 1957 H2 flu strain was replaced by another new
strain in 1968, anyone born after that date has no immunity
to it.
"...any escape of the virus in the test kits could be
as lethal to them as the Asian flu of 1957." the report
stated at the time.
Because such test kits are routine and do not contain dangerous
viruses, they are not handed at a high level of biological containment.
Therefore the chances of the virus escaping the lab were high
and scientists scrambled to find and destroy the potentially
lethal samples.
Despite these facts, the federal government downplayed the
possibility of foul play. From the AP report:
Dr. Nancy Cox, chief of the influenza branch at the federal
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, said
her agency was notified of the situation on Friday morning.
She also said officials strongly doubted that someone deliberately
planted the strain or that it was an act of bioterrorism.
"It wouldn't be a smart way to start a pandemic to send
it to laboratories, because we have people well trained in
biocontainment," Dr. Cox said.
The New Scientist report also points to another "accident"
in 1970 when a H1 flu strain, the cause of the 1918 pandemic,
was believed to have escaped from a faulty batch of live flu
vaccine prepared in a Russian lab.
Just last month, health authorities and industry groups reviewing
European lab safety standards concluded in a new report that
research
on dangerous pathogens needs to be more strictly monitored.
With all these "accidents" in mind, in addition to
reports of the 1918 "Spanish flu" having originated
at Fort Riley in Kansas, further scares such as
the 1976 swine flu incident which originated
at a military base, and clear evidence of attempts
by the military to culture
influenza as a bio weapon, handling reconstructed
versions of lethal strains at less
than the maximum level of containment, it is absolutely
essential that any new outbreak be questioned with this information
in mind.
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