Anthony Gucciardi
Activist Post
As predicted, government advisory board officials are warning of
bioterrorist attacks that could result from the full release of a study
detailing how virologist Ron Fouchier mutated the bird flu virus to potentially transmit quickly between humans.
If the findings are released, scientists are warning that the virus
could mutate to mimic past pandemic flu outbreaks such as the Spanish
flu of 1918-1919 which killed 50 million people.
Virologist Ron Fouchier of the Erasmus Medical Center in the
Netherlands seeks to publish his work in the journals Science and
Nature, though United States government officials from the National
Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity have asked the journals to exclude the specific details of the study that could lead to the replication of the experiments. So far the editor of Science has agreed to withhold some
data under the circumstance that the government sets up a medium to
provide the withheld data to scientists around the world who ‘need’ it.
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