PNAC en biologische oorlogsvoering als politiek behulpzaam instrument

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"And advanced forms of biological warfare that can target specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool"

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Rumsfeld kan cashen

WHO Says Initial Findings Show Swine Flu Responds To Tamiflu

2008: Indonesian fears over US Navy laboratory

A UNITED States Navy research laboratory in Jakarta is at the centre of a diplomatic stand-off with Indonesia, amid allegations it is involved in intelligence collection and biological weapons production.

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Rumsfeld en Tamiflu

Rumsfeld's growing stake in Tamiflu
Defense Secretary, ex-chairman of flu treatment rights holder, sees portfolio value growing.
October 31, 2005: 10:55 AM EST
By Nelson D. Schwartz, Fortune senior writer

NEW YORK (Fortune) - The prospect of a bird flu outbreak may be panicking people around the globe, but it's proving to be very good news for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other politically connected investors in Gilead Sciences, the California biotech company that owns the rights to Tamiflu, the influenza remedy that's now the most-sought after drug in the world.

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Venture capital firm set to reap rewards on swine flu

By Alexander Haislip

LOS ANGELES, April 24 (Reuters) - The swine flu outbreak is likely to benefit one of the most prolific and successful venture capital firms in the United States: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Thomson Reuters Private Equity Week reported on Friday.

Shares of the two public companies in the firm's portfolio of eight Pandemic and Bio Defense companies -- BioCryst Pharmaceuticals (BCRX.O) and Novavax (NVAX.O) -- jumped Friday on news that the swine flu killed a reported 60 people in Mexico and has infected people in the United States.

The World Health Organization said the virus appears to be susceptible to Roche's (ROG.VX) flu drug Tamiflu, also known as oseltamivir, but not to older flu drugs such as amantadine.

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Varkensgriep bereikt New York

150 kinderen in New York zijn ziek geworden. Het merendeel zou aan de beterende hand zijn.

In de Canadese stad Ottawa wordt een man behandeld aan een mysterieuze ziekte, mogelijk gelinkt aan het varkensgriep-virus.

Een Brits bemanningslid van British Airways is preventief onder behandeling gesteld na een vlucht uit Mexico.

En inmiddels zijn er 70 dodelijke slachtoffers te betreuren in Mexico. De Pers

Het CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) zegt verder dat het niet meer mogelijk is het virus te isoleren.

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Pandemieën beginnen op militaire bases?

1918: Spaanse griep ontdekt op Fort Riley

1976: Varkensgriep-variant ontdekt op Fort Dix

2009: nog niet officieel bekend

Maar wie wisten er misschien wèl van? Is dit de inleiding tot een nieuwe vaccinatie-hype?

Ik heb geen idee. Jullie?

RIVM: blijf thuis bij mogelijke varkensgriep

(Novum) - Mensen die binnen vier dagen na terugkomst uit Mexico koorts ontwikkelen zonder dat daar een goede verklaring voor kan worden gegeven, moeten thuis blijven. Ze kunnen zich telefonisch melden bij bijvoorbeeld hun huisarts of de GGD. Dat meldt het Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (RIVM) vrijdag.

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The mysterious deaths of top microbiologists

Now, statistically, it's possible, even likely, that one or two of these microbiologists legitimately were killed in random accidents. But for so many to die in such a short while exceeds all reasonable bounds of statistics. Prudence would demand an investigation, not the "ho hum" attitude of the government which even today continues to issue dire warnings to the general population of how much we are all in danger from "bioterrorism".

So, let's take a moment and step away from the perpetual fear-mongering of the media (and Rumsfeld) as they assure us another attack IS coming (with a certainty which suggests inside information on the subject) and assume for a moment that some party has indeed decided to "liquidate" weapons research infectious disease experts.

There is really only one reason to kill off a bunch of scientists. To keep them from doing something they are able to do.

What were these scientists able to do? Maybe blow the whistle if an artificially created disease was about to be used in a manner those who created it did not approve of.

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FACTBOX: New flu strain is a genetic mix

(Reuters) - U.S. health officials are investigating a strange new type of swine influenza that has infected at least seven people and which is expected to be found in more.

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Mexico swine flu deaths spur global epidemic fears

Mexico shut down schools, museums, libraries and state-run theaters across its overcrowded capital Friday in hopes of containing a swine flu outbreak that authorities say killed at least 20 people — and perhaps dozens more. World health authorities worried openly that the strange new virus could become a global epidemic.

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