Scientists Weaponize Deadly Bird Flu, Consider Releasing Results Necessary to Create Bioweapon H5N1.

Scientists Weaponize Deadly Bird Flu, Consider Releasing Results Necessary to Create Bioweapon H5N1.










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 style="color: red;">'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 says that 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.








Source:-

http://www.activistpost.com/2011/11/scientists-weaponize-deadly-bird-flu.html