Ferret Flu Confirmed to be Pharmed by the Plum Island Method

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Subject: Ferret Flu Confirmed to be Pharmed by the Plum Island Method

Date: Dec 22, 2011 11:03 AM

This is definitely how they
do it on Plum Island
http://www.actionlyme.org/PIIB.htm

See ^^^ Durland Fish and his African
Swine Fever virus in a "vector-pathogen
competence study."

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"But as part of their experiment, the researchers tested how
transmissible their new engineered virus would by inoculating one
ferret with it. After it got sick, they exposed a second ferret to
infectious material from the first one. They then repeated this a few
more times, essentially forcing the virus to adapt."



See also the breaking news on how
EBV is activated by association to
Borrelia (intracellularly) in the
homepage and in reports linked from
there:
http://www.actionlyme.org

Some of it - like how to Pharm Phlu
Phrom Pherrets is CDC's data, too, LMAO!!

KMDickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
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Selected Comment

Since USA is now telling science related magazine publishers what to
write and quashing freedom of speech in the process, this country is
now headed into a possible Fascist Dictatorship.Fascism is just as
worse as Communism, perhaps even more worse.


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Journals asked to censor controversial bird flu studies

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Journals asked to censor controversial bird flu studies

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CTVNews.ca Staff

Date: Thu. Dec. 22 2011 8:59 AM ET

The U.S. government is asking scientific journals not to publish
details of studies conducted on the bird flu virus because of fears
that the information could be used by bioterrorists.

Both a Dutch and an American research team have managed to figure out
a way to mutate the avian flu virus so that it can become highly
transmissible among humans.

The engineered viruses have not been released; they remain locked
away in high-security labs. The sole reason the researchers wanted to
deliberately create a deadly superbug was to simply better understand
what changes in the virus would need to happen in the real world for
it to become dangerous among humans.

The researchers would like to publish what they discovered and have
submitted their work to the journals Science and Nature.


The U.S. government, however, is asking the journals to publish only
brief reports of the work. They're worried that nefarious teams might
want to borrow the ideas to create deadly viruses of their own for
bioterrorism.

The U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity has asked the
journals to publish severely scaled down versions of the studies. But
both journals say that smacks of censorship. They point out that there
are researchers with a legitimate need to see the full work.

"It is essential for public health that the full details of any
scientific analysis of flu viruses be available to researchers," Dr.
Philip Campbell, editor in chief of Nature, said in a statement.

The request from the U.S. government to publish redacted versions of
the research is only that: a request; the government does not have the
power to block the publications.

But the journals said in separate statements this week that they are
working with the advisory board to come up with a compromise. One idea
would be for the journals to limit what they reveal, and then have the
U.S. government create a system in which those parties that need to
know the full details of the research could be granted access to the
material.

"We are discussing with interested parties how, within the scenario
recommended by NSABB, appropriate access to the scientific methods and
data could be enabled," said Campbell.

But Dr. Bruce Alberts, editor in chief of Science magazine, said the
negotiations have already dragged on for a long time and a plan for
granting full access has yet to be devised.

"Our response will be heavily dependent upon the further steps taken
by the U.S. government to set forth a written, transparent plan to
ensure that any information that is omitted from the publication will
be provided to all those responsible scientists who request it, as
part of their legitimate efforts to improve public health and safety,"
he said in his statement.

The bird flu virus already has a high death rate in humans. Of the 600
people who have to date been infected with the H5N1 virus, 60 per cent
have died.

But while humans can catch the virus from birds, H5N1 currently does
not transmit easily from person-to-person.

Dr. Fouchier's team, as well as a team led by Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a
University of Wisconsin-Madison, have found that it would take only
five mutations to the original virus to turn it into an easily
transmissible form.

The team conducted their research on ferrets, whose respiratory
systems are similar to humans. The animals are considered the best
predictor of how flu viruses might behave in humans.

The team introduced five mutations into the virus and found it then
could easily bind to the ferrets' nasal and tracheal cells. All of the
mutations have been found in H5N1 viruses in the wild; they just
haven't all come together at once yet – and may never do so.

But as part of their experiment, the researchers tested how
transmissible their new engineered virus would by inoculating one
ferret with it. After it got sick, they exposed a second ferret to
infectious material from the first one. They then repeated this a few
more times, essentially forcing the virus to adapt.

After 10 virus generations, the virus "learned" how to became airborne
and infect healthy ferrets who were simply housed next to a sick one.

Fouchier says their research means that it's indeed possible that the
H5N1 virus could change into a virus that can spread among humans,
"more easily than previously thought," he said in a statement earlier
this month.

Infectious diseases expert Dr. Neil Rau points out that because the
research was conducted on ferrets, it's not even clear whether the
virus can transmit easily among humans.

"There's no proof that it's transmissible between person to person,"
he told CTV's Canada AM Thursday.

Rau doesn't believe that it's likely that just anyone could take the
clues given in this research and then begin creating a superbug
bioweapon.

"You need a Level 4 lab with personal protective equipment before you
even handle it. So no amateur is going to do this. You're going to
need a concerted group of evil people working as a team to play around
with this virus," Rau says.

Even if that could happen, transporting and disseminating it wouldn't
be easy either without killing all those involved.

for those reasons and more, Rau believes the move to suppress this
research is an overreaction.

"I think we've already sacrificed a lot of civil liberties and
freedoms in this war on terror and I think this is another freedom on
the altar of sacrifice with them saying suppress this information in
return for preventing what is really a low risk," he said.



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