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02 Jul 03 - 12:51 PM (#975247) Subject: BS: Level 4 Containment - BioShield From: GUEST A network of high-security laboratories for storing and investigating some of the most lethal viruses known to mankind is being built across the US, leaving communities in uproar. They not only fear the risk of the viruses escaping, but also contend that the program, part of the $6bn (£3.5bn) Project BioShield, is a stunning case of overkill. For none of the germs to be studied is related to bioweaponry.... Link (Level 4 bio-containment labs are the most extreme. Why is the U.S. govt going on a spending spree building them across the country? The U.S. govt has been seized by terrorists who now have a blank check to grow no telling what in these facilities until it is time for release. Personally, I think the Spanish Flu is about to be weaponized...see the links below. They can engineer such viruses to achieve different degrees of efficiency, you know. 80% mortality rate, 85%. So now they're about to decode the Spanish Flu genome just as Bush # 2 pushes for a whole string of Level 4 bio franchises be built across the U.S. And the kicker is, once the flu breaks out, the Bush family's drug company backers will have a 'vaccine' that's as bad as the flu...just slower acting. And the legislation is in place to forcibly inject you with either vaccine or a 9mm slug, so ain't this a bitch? Do you die from the flu or the carcinogenic vaccine? Well, the vaccine, because the third option is immediate execution. Level 4's take a while to build, so I'd say we're safe this winter, but maybe this is the Bush Company's 'October Surprise' for next year. Maybe we won't be allowed out in public to vote unless we've had the flu shot, which will cost a hundred bucks.) (1999) Another project, from the US Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, managed to sequence an influenza gene after recovering the body of an Inuit flu victim buried in Alaskan tundra.... Link (July 1 2003) Forget anthrax and smallpox, influenza could easily be turned into the next weapon of mass destruction, scientists said today. They sounded their warning as researchers come close to completing the blueprint for the virus of the 1918 'flu epidemic that killed up to 40 million people globally.... Link President George W Bush has urged the US Congress to pass his 10-year, $5.6 billion Project BioShield initiative aimed at speeding vaccines against possible biological weapons like anthrax and smallpox... Under the program, the government would create a new market for the bio-terror treatments by purchasing vaccines or therapies once they are developed. The idea is to get research companies working on vaccines because diseases caused by potential bio-terror agents such as anthrax or botulinum toxin occur so rarely in a natural setting that few, if any, companies are researching them.... Link |
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02 Jul 03 - 01:53 PM (#975307) Subject: RE: BS: Level 4 Containment - BioShield From: artbrooks Welcome back, DG. Sounds to me like the medical researchers are doing exactly what they are supposed to be doing. Thank you for the information. |
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02 Jul 03 - 02:32 PM (#975349) Subject: RE: BS: Level 4 Containment - BioShield From: McGrath of Harlow "Level-4 containment" - that is straight out of Star Trek. Did the programme makers coin the expression and have it pinched by the boffins, or was it the other way round? I mean, why not "level five", or "level three"? |
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02 Jul 03 - 02:43 PM (#975358) Subject: RE: BS: Level 4 Containment - BioShield From: artbrooks McGrath, the US National Institutes of Health actually refers to them as Biosafety Levels, and there are 4. "Bio-containment" is probably the figment of somebody's imagination, based upon reading too much bad science fiction. This is the NIH's definition of Level 4. |
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02 Jul 03 - 02:48 PM (#975362) Subject: RE: BS: Level 4 Containment - BioShield From: Micca The UK equivalent defininitions are set out Try Here and are very similar, scrool down to the section on Pathogens |