Guest guest Posted March 17, 2009 Report Share Posted March 17, 2009 One has to be on alert these days. Take at your own risk any flu shots. Editorial: Baxter’s H5N1 as global flu pandemic threat There is no excuse. According to the scientific network PROMED, Baxter International Inc. in Austria "unintentionally contaminated samples with the bird flu virus that were used in laboratories in 3 neighbouring countries, raising concern about the potential spread of the deadly disease". Austria, Germany, Slowenia and the Czech Republic - these are the countries in which labs were hit with dangerous viruses. Not by bioterrorist commandos, but by Baxter. In other words: One of the major global pharmaceutical players seems to have lost control over a virus which is considered by many virologists to be one of the components leading some day to a new pandemic. Was it H5N1, or the even more risky H3N2? And what about the BSL3-Standards Baxter is operating when handling the viruses? What happened? And who failed? by Vlad Georgescu Yours, Doc Attachment: vcard [not shown] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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