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Bird Flu As A U.S. Biological Weapon?
U.S. denies producing biological weapons from bird flu samples --Media: U.S. denies Indonesia's allegation on bird flu samples 17 Mar 2008 The United States has flatly denied allegations it was producing biological weapons from bird flu samples sent by Indonesia to the World Health Organization, the English daily The Jakarta Post reported Monday. Michael H. Anderson, counselor for Public Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Indonesia, [has issued the denial]. However, Indonesian senior biodefense researcher Isro Samihardjo said the U.S. could use bird flu virus samples from Indonesia to develop weapons at the Los Alamos Laboratory. Isro was speaking at a meeting about Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari's newly released book here Saturday. In her book "It's Time for the World to Change, Divine Hands behind Bird Flu," Siti writes of her suspicions about a conspiracy between the U.S. and the WHO. [See also: Flu 'Oddities'.]
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Uh... kind of a ridiculous claim. Never mind the moral implications of it, but simply on a practical sense the use of releasing a difficult to control contagious disease as a weapon that would rapidly spread to important ally countries like Japan and Korea and just as easily land on our shores is a huge waste of time, effort and money.
I suspect its exaggerated rhetoric employed against American drug companies who want to profit from the development of a vaccine.
March 18, 2008 10:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
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