Why not? U.S. government has a long history of doing that to people to test.
Or have you forgotten Tuskegee and the nuclear explosion fallout, to name just two?
"US closes CDC flu, anthrax labs for errors" by Donald G. McNeil | New York Times July 12, 2014
After potentially serious back-to-back laboratory accidents, federal health officials announced Friday that they had closed the flu and anthrax laboratories at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and have halted shipments of all infectious agents from the agency’s highest-security labs.
The accidents, and the CDC’s emphatic response to them, could have important consequences for other laboratories engaged in efforts to produce dangerous viruses and bacteria.
If the CDC — which the agency’s director, Dr. Thomas Frieden, called “the reference laboratory to the world” — had multiple accidents that could, in theory, have killed staff members and people outside, there will undoubtedly be calls for stricter controls on other university, military, and private laboratories that handle pathogens.
Oh, is that the point of this?
In the second accident, disclosed Friday, a CDC lab accidentally contaminated a relatively benign flu sample with a dangerous H5N1 bird flu strain that has infected 650 people since 2003, killing 386 of them. Fortunately, an Agriculture Department laboratory realized the strain was more dangerous than expected and alerted the CDC.
Who are they hiring to work there, and please don't tell me Americans don't have skills.
The first accident occurred last month. As many as 75 CDC employees may have been exposed to live anthrax bacteria after potentially infectious samples were sent to laboratories unequipped to handle them. Workers who were not wearing protective gear ended up moving and experimenting with samples of the highly infectious bacteria that were supposed to have been deactivated, the agency said.
Related: Anthrax in Atlanta
Turned out to be another lone nut, 'er, negligent.
In addition to those mistakes, Frieden also said Friday that two of six vials of smallpox recently found stored in a National Institutes of Health laboratory since 1954 contained live virus capable of infecting people.
That's SCARY!
All the samples will be destroyed as soon as the genomes of the virus in them can be sequenced. The NIH will scour freezers and storerooms for more dangerous material, he said. “These events revealed totally unacceptable behavior,” Frieden said. “They should never have happened. I’m upset, I’m angry, I’ve lost sleep over this, and I’m working on it until the issue is resolved.”
I wish I could believe them.
Frieden said that the accidents had implications for labs beyond his agency, arguing that the world needs to reduce to absolute minimums the number of labs handling dangerous agents, the number of staff involved, and the number of agents circulating.
Oh, so this is a way of shutting out "enemies" and allowing them to do their own research. Wouldn't the more people investigating the better?
This is to HIDE the ORIGIN of a STRAIN that may be RELEASED!
Scientists doing the most controversial work — efforts to make pathogens more lethal or more transmissible — say the research helps predict mutations that might arise in nature so vaccines can be designed. But other scientists feel that creating superstrains is unacceptably dangerous because lab accidents are more common than is acknowledged, as Frieden’s statement indicated.
$ecuring a market for certain powerful intere$ts.
And if that same intermingled entity has control of the pathogens.... cui bono?
At the CDC itself, Frieden said, staff who knowingly failed to follow procedures or who failed to report dangerous incidents would be disciplined. A panel of experts will be convened to revise procedures.
In the flu-related incident, a CDC lab accidentally contaminated a sample of less-dangerous H9N2 bird flu that it was preparing for shipment to an Agriculture Department laboratory with the H5N1 bird flu strain.
Hasn't the food supply taken enough hits with Fukushima and the Gulf Gusher?
Although the contamination was discovered May 23, Frieden said he was dismayed to find that senior CDC officials were not informed until July 7, and he was told only 48 hours ago.
Nonetheless, he said, “we have a high degree of confidence that no one was exposed.”
That right there is NOT VERY REASSURING AT ALL!
The flu material was handled in high-biosafety-level labs in both agencies and the workers wore breathing apparatuses.
In theory, the flu-related accident could have been much worse than the anthrax one.
Anthrax can kill people who inhale it, but is not normally transmitted between humans, so an infected laboratory worker presumably could not have gone home, fallen ill, and passed it on. Although H5N1 flu is not easily transmitted between humans, it is believed to have done so in a few instances, and is fatal in about 60 percent of known cases.
The CDC released a report Friday on its inquiry into the anthrax episode, which occurred June 5 in the agency’s bioterrorism rapid response lab in testing a new mass spectrometry method. The intent was to see whether the technique was adequate for state and local laboratories testing mystery samples for anthrax.
The report found several errors: A scientist used a dangerous anthrax strain when a safer one would have sufficed, had not read relevant studies, and used an unapproved chemical killing method.
The error was found by accident.
And we should have faith in this government because.... ?????????
A door to an autoclave that would have sterilized samples taken for safety tests was stuck, so they were left in an incubator days longer than usual. Only then did a technician see that bacteria believed dead were growing.
(Blog editor snorts, shakes head)
Later tests done at the CDC and at a Michigan state health department lab as part of the investigation confirmed that the chemical method would have killed any live, growing anthrax in the samples that were sent out, but might not have killed all spores, which can also be lethal.
All the workers were offered vaccine and antibiotics.
Cha-ching.
For the flu lab, that will be finished in time for vaccine preparation for next winter’s flu season, he said.
Oh, yeah. I'm rolling up my sleeve right now.
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Feel a tickle in your throat?
"The Vermont Health Department says that 11 whooping cough cases were reported in Windham County in June and that so far this month there have been five suspected cases. Of the 11 confirmed cases, 10 people have been vaccinated against whooping cough. Officials do not know the vaccination status of the other case. All but one of the confirmed cases were in children between the ages of 3 and 17, and all but one of the cases were reported in Brattleboro. Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is a contagious disease caused by a bacterial infection of the lungs."
Short of breath now?
Related: With disease’s resurgence, officials urge whooping cough boosters
And now all those sick immigrant "runaways" are coming.
Also see: Hospitals miss goal for worker flu shots
They obviously know something, as did someone else who is now silent. He knew all about the long-forgotten swine flu $windle and deaths.
Taking a Shot at This Blog
WARNING: It's a "conspiracy theory."
"Vials of smallpox found in storage" by Lena H. Sun and Brady Dennis | Washington Post July 09, 2014
WASHINGTON — A government scientist cleaning out a storage room at a lab on the NIH Bethesda, Md., campus found decades-old vials of smallpox last week, the second incident involving the mishandling of a highly dangerous pathogen by a federal health agency in a month.
The vials, which appear to date from the 1950s, were flown Sunday night by government plane to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta, officials said Tuesday.
Is that supposed to somehow reassure me?
Initial testing confirmed the presence of smallpox virus DNA. Further testing, which could take up to two weeks, will determine whether the material is live. The samples will be destroyed after the testing is completed.
There is no evidence that any of the vials had been breached or that workers in the lab, which has been used by the Food and Drug Administration for decades, were exposed to infection. Nevertheless, employees apparently had not received official communication about the discovery. One scientist who works in the building and declined to be identified for fear of retaliation said he learned about it when his supervisor read a media report Tuesday.
(Blog editor snorts, shakes head again)
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the CDC’s division of select agents and toxins are investigating. ‘‘Due to the potential bio-safety and bio-security issues involved, the FBI worked with CDC and NIH to ensure safe packaging and secure transport of the materials,’’ said FBI spokesman Christopher Allen.
UH-OH!
A patsy plot frame-up by an FBI instigator about to go live?!!!!
This is the first time that the deadly virus has been discovered outside the only two facilities in the world where smallpox samples are allowed, by international agreement, to be stored — a highly secure lab at CDC headquarters in Atlanta and a virology and biotechnology research center in Novosibirsk, Russia.
Smallpox vanished from the United States just after World War II and was eradicated globally by 1980. But the disease killed hundreds of millions of people in the 20th century alone.
:-(
And the planet is getting increasingly unruly here in the early part of the 21st-century.
More than one way to fix that.
‘‘It was considered one of the worst things that could happen to a community to have a smallpox outbreak,’’ said Michael Osterholm, a bioterrorism expert and director of the Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. ‘‘It’s a disease that’s had a major impact on human history.’’
There is no cure for smallpox, and historically about one-third of people who contract it die from the disease.
And it would at least incapacitate the rest so they could not offer much resistance to what is planned.
Though not as readily contagious as some other diseases, such as influenza, smallpox promises plenty of misery once contracted. Symptoms include high fever, fatigue, and fluid-filled lesions that often ooze and crust over, leaving survivors irreversibly scarred.
Thus marked.
Last month, a safety lapse involving three CDC labs in Atlanta led to the accidental release of live anthrax bacteria, an incident that required as many as 84 employees to get a vaccine or take antibiotics as a precaution and resulted in the reassignment of one lab director.
Was that also a psyops set-up to prepare our minds for the official excuses and cover-ups to be offered by authority? It was an oopsie?
Scientists failed to take proper precautions to inactivate bacteria samples before transferring them to other labs not equipped to handle live anthrax. The biggest mystery about the smallpox discovery is how the samples ended up in Building 29A on the NIH campus. The building is an FDA lab, one of several that FDA has operated on the NIH campus since 1972. The vials were discovered while employees were preparing for the lab’s move to the FDA’s main campus at White Oak, Md.
Because they planned to infect farm animals?
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You know, you could save the CDC -- (blog editor shakes head!) -- the trouble and just commit suicide.
Related(?):
"Ebola crisis in West Africa deepens; 539 dead" | Associated Press July 15, 2014
DAKAR, Senegal — A total of 539 deaths in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone have now been attributed to the Ebola virus — the largest outbreak on record.
I was told it had been eradicated, but then it got out of control and the alarm was raised.
Ebola has reached the capitals of all three countries, and the World Health Organization reported 44 new cases including 21 deaths, on Friday.
Ebola, a hemorrhagic fever that can cause its victims to bleed from the ears and nose, had never before been seen in this part of West Africa, where medical clinics are few and far between.
The key to halting Ebola is isolating the sick, but fear and panic have sent some patients into hiding, complicating efforts to stop its spread.
Preachers are calling for divine intervention, and panicked residents in remote areas have on multiple occasions attacked the very health workers sent to help them. In one town in Sierra Leone, residents partially burned down a treatment center over fears that the drugs given to victims were causing the disease.
Can't imagine why they would think that!
Related: The Constant Gardener
A Guinea pig population in more ways than one.
Activists are trying to spread awareness in the countryside, where literacy is low.
Guinea first notified WHO about the emergence of Ebola in March and soon after cases were reported in neighboring Liberia. Two months later there were hopes that the outbreak was waning, but then people began falling ill in Sierra Leone.
Doctors Without Borders says it fears the number of patients now being treated in Sierra Leone could be just the tip of the iceberg. Nearly 40 were reported in a single village in the country’s east.
This Ebola virus is a new strain and did not spread to West Africa from previous outbreaks in Uganda and Congo, researchers say. Many believe it is linked to the human consumption of bats carrying the virus.
Seriously? They really think that will fly?
There is no cure and no vaccine for Ebola, and those who have survived managed to do so only by receiving rehydration and other supportive treatment. Ebola’s high fatality rate means many of those brought to health clinics have been merely kept as comfortable as possible in quarantine as they await death. As a result, some families have been afraid to take sick loved ones to the clinics.
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Related: You Can Have This HIV Article
Lower HIV diagnosis rate called ‘encouraging’
The AIDS epidemic may be slowing.
I would never want anyone to have AIDS, and I'm sure there are more threats out there.
Interesting aside, but it appears they were collateral damage -- if you believe the event as described in the propaganda pre$$.
"Air Force fires 9 over cheating scandal" New York Times March 28, 2014
WASHINGTON — The Air Force said Thursday it had fired nine officers and accepted the resignation of the commander at Malmstrom Air Base in Montana as it continued to deal with a widespread cheating scandal among the men and women entrusted with the launching of intercontinental ballistic missiles.
The commander, Colonel Robert Stanley, who was directly responsible for the 100 or so officers implicated in the cheating scandal at Malmstrom, resigned Thursday morning, the Air Force said.
The long-running case has led to the largest number of dismissals in the history of the ICBM force, which controls 450 nuclear-tipped Minuteman missiles at three bases, in Montana, North Dakota, and Wyoming.
The nine firings at Malmstrom represented most of the chain of command at the base. The officers were not fired for cheating, Air Force officials said, but because nearly half of the missile launch crew’s members either were cheating on monthly proficiency tests or knew about the cheating.
Separately, the Air Force said it had fired Colonel Donald Holloway, the commander of a missile wing at Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming, over the “loss of confidence in his ability to lead.”
A nuclear bomb dropped off of one a while back and it remains unaccounted for.
Holloway’s firing, the Air Force said, “has nothing to do with the recent commander-directed investigation into the testing compromise at Malmstrom.”
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Just a reminder the next great false flag terror attack may not be biological at all, but nuclear (after the ranks were purged).
Chicago seems like a very symbolic spot, 'eh? Then Obummer can thunder about the greatest tragedy to ever befall mankind as he smites the Russian, Chinese, Syrian, Iranian enemies that did this most horrible act in history (Hiroshima and Nagasaki excepted, of course).
