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December 23rd, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Radio Netherlands Worldwide
21 December 2011
International furore has broken out over a few phials of manipulated virus material stored at a Dutch university. Some experts are worried that the modified bird flu virus, if accidentally released or stolen by terrorists, could trigger a global pandemic killing millions of people.
A further worry is that others might copy the research and create dangerous viruses outside a controlled lab environment.
The US National Science Advisory Board on Biosecurity (NSABB) has urgently advised researchers from the Erasmus MC university medical centre in Rotterdam to refrain from integrally publishing the results of their research into their version of the H5N1 bird flu virus.
The Rotterdam scientists created a strain of the virus which could probably be transferred from person to person. They said they had their reservations about the NSABB advice but would respect it.
The Rotterdam virologists in September offered an article on their research to the respected scientific magazine Science for publication. Science submitted the article to the NSABB, because data from the Erasmus MC research could possibly be used to create a biological weapon.
The NSABB – an independent body of experts who advise the US government on biological security issues – wants the researchers to remove the sensitive information from their article. The Rotterdam research was funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish whether the bird flu virus could cause a pandemic.
Research leader Ron Fouchier reacted indignantly to the news from the United States: “We will respect the advice. We have no choice. If we don’t, the whole world will turn on us”, he said.
Fouchier underscored the scientific significance of the research: “We want to share our results with as many serious flu researchers as possible to help the research move forward. We are asking ourselves how we are supposed to do this now that we are forced to keep part of our research confidential.”
Controversial ‘bird flu’ edits move ahead
France24
22 December 2011
AFP – Top US scientists defended their bid to stop details of a mutant bird flu virus from being published and called for global cooperation to ward off an uncontrollable pandemic.
Meanwhile, scientists involved in the experiments said they are cooperating with government officials and the editors of the journals Science and Nature to pare down their research for publication in the coming weeks.
The controversy arose when two separate research teams — one in the Netherlands and the other in the United States — separately found ways to alter the H5N1 avian influenza so it could pass easily between mammals.
Until now, bird flu has been rare in humans, but particularly fatal in those who do get sick. H5N1 first infected humans in 1997 and has killed more than one in every two people that it infected, for a total of 350 deaths.
The concern is the virus could mutate and mimic past pandemic flu outbreaks such as the “Spanish flu” of 1918-1919 which killed 50 million people, and outbreaks in 1957 and 1968 that killed three million.
The recommendations from a non-governmental advisory panel that key details of the newly altered virus be withheld drew fire from some scientists who saw it as censorship of material that is essential for surveillance and the hunt for vaccines.
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