Scientists Weaponize Deadly Bird Flu

Scientists Weaponize Deadly Bird Flu, Consider Releasing Results Necessary to Create Bioweapon


It
sounds like something out of a bizarre science fiction comic book, but
scientists have weaponized the H5N1 bird flu virus, and are actually considering releasing the research. The experiments, which involved mutating the virus a total of 5 times, made the strain highly contagious
between ferrets — the very animal model used to study human flu
infection. Of course many scientists are now warning that if such
research was made public it could result in the construction of deadly
bioweapons.
Making the virus highly contagious could result in widespread
infection. The H5N1 virus has been infecting birds and other animals in
recent years, though it has also infected around 500 people. The
reason that it has not become an epidemic is due to the fact that affected humans are usually not very contagious. Therefore, altering the virus to become highly contagious is quite possibly the deadliest tweak which could be done. It seems that these scientists are just asking for the new weaponized bird flu virus to infect the public.

Bioterrorism fears arise as scientists push to release weaponized bird flu research


Dr. Thomas
Inglesby, a bioterrorism expert and director of the Center for
Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, notes that
it is simply a bad idea for scientists to militarize bird flu, let alone publish the results:
<blockquote>“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.</blockquote>So
far no scientific journal has published the findings, and Inglesby
hopes that none of them will. Virologist Ron Fouchier of the Erasmus
Medical Center in the Netherlands is responsible for weaponizing the
virus and presenting the findings at a flu conference held in Malta. He
has recently come under attack by an organization known as the National
Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, a committee of independent
experts on biological research.
Ron Fouchier mutating the virus to become highly contagious is shocking
enough, but the fact that some scientists are now pushing for the
release of the research is beyond outlandish. It seems apparent that
these scientists have zero regard for public health.


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