Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean that they're not trying to poison you
It seems as if someone's up to no good.
Unless you've been under a rock the past few days, you're probably somewhat aware of headlines such as this:
Mexico swine flu deaths spur global epidemic fears
You may even be aware of the fact that this particular flu, that is threatening to become a pandemic, "combines genetic material from pigs, birds, and humans in a way researchers have not seen before"
What you're probably not aware of is that a company called Baxter was recently caught "mistakenly" doing just that.
And by "just that", I mean that Baxter was mixing bird flu and human-infecting swine flu.
And by "mistakenly", I mean deliberately.
And by "recently", I mean less than two months ago.
Virus mix-up by lab could have resulted in pandemic
March 6, 2009
"It's emerged that virulent H5N1 bird flu was sent out by accident from an Austrian lab last year and given to ferrets in the Czech Republic before anyone realised. As well as the risk of it escaping into the wild, the H5N1 got mixed with a human strain, which might have spawned a hybrid that could unleash a pandemic.
Last December, the Austrian branch of US vaccine company Baxter sent a batch of ordinary human H3N2 (SWINE) flu, altered so it couldn't replicate, to Avir Green Hills Biotechnology, also in Austria. In February, a lab in the Czech Republic working for Avir alerted Baxter that, unexpectedly, ferrets inoculated with the sample had died. It turned out the sample contained live H5N1 (BIRD) flu, which Baxter uses to make vaccine. The two seem to have been mixed in error.
Markus Reinhard of Baxter says no one was infected because the H3N2 was handled at a high level of containment. But Ab Osterhaus of Erasmus University in the Netherlands says: "We need to go to great lengths to make sure this kind of thing doesn't happen."
Accidental release of a mixture of live H5N1 and H3N2 viruses could have resulted in dire consequences. While H5N1 doesn't easily infect people, H3N2 viruses do. If someone exposed to a mixture of the two had been simultaneously infected with both strains, he or she could have served as an incubator for a hybrid virus able to transmit easily to and among people."
But wait - it gets even better!
You'll never guess which company has been contracted to produce a vaccine to stop the current swine flu outbreak.
No, really. You'll never, ever guess, so I'll just tell you.
Illinois-based Baxter working on vaccine to stop swine flu outbreak in Mexico
By Associated Press
9:22 PM CDT, April 25, 2009
DEERFIELD, Ill. (AP)
"Specialty drug maker Baxter International Inc. will work with the World Health Organization to develop a vaccine that could stem an outbreak of a deadly swine flu strain in Mexico.
Baxter spokesman Christopher Bona said Saturday that the Deerfield, Ill.-based company has asked the WHO for a sample of the flu strain.
He says Baxter has patented technology that allows the company to develop vaccines in half the time it usually takes - about 13 weeks instead of 26.
There have been 20 confirmed deaths in Mexico of the swine flu, with nonfatal cases also confirmed in Kansas and California.
Humans don't have a natural immunity to swine flu strain that emerged in Mexico in March. Officials have warned the outbreak could become a global epidemic."
Now, if you're thinking that this confluence of events and circumstances is all just a wacky coincidence, and that conspiracy theories are crazy, and that I'm just a paranoid, unpatriotic asshole, I would like to respectfully ask you to fuck off, because the period where we trust governments and corporations to NOT infect us for profit are fucking over, ok?
Because that's exactly what they've been doing for quite a while now.
If you don't believe me, watch this:
This:
Or this:
Unless you've been under a rock the past few days, you're probably somewhat aware of headlines such as this:
Mexico swine flu deaths spur global epidemic fears
You may even be aware of the fact that this particular flu, that is threatening to become a pandemic, "combines genetic material from pigs, birds, and humans in a way researchers have not seen before"
What you're probably not aware of is that a company called Baxter was recently caught "mistakenly" doing just that.
And by "just that", I mean that Baxter was mixing bird flu and human-infecting swine flu.
And by "mistakenly", I mean deliberately.
And by "recently", I mean less than two months ago.
Virus mix-up by lab could have resulted in pandemic
March 6, 2009
"It's emerged that virulent H5N1 bird flu was sent out by accident from an Austrian lab last year and given to ferrets in the Czech Republic before anyone realised. As well as the risk of it escaping into the wild, the H5N1 got mixed with a human strain, which might have spawned a hybrid that could unleash a pandemic.
Last December, the Austrian branch of US vaccine company Baxter sent a batch of ordinary human H3N2 (SWINE) flu, altered so it couldn't replicate, to Avir Green Hills Biotechnology, also in Austria. In February, a lab in the Czech Republic working for Avir alerted Baxter that, unexpectedly, ferrets inoculated with the sample had died. It turned out the sample contained live H5N1 (BIRD) flu, which Baxter uses to make vaccine. The two seem to have been mixed in error.
Markus Reinhard of Baxter says no one was infected because the H3N2 was handled at a high level of containment. But Ab Osterhaus of Erasmus University in the Netherlands says: "We need to go to great lengths to make sure this kind of thing doesn't happen."
Accidental release of a mixture of live H5N1 and H3N2 viruses could have resulted in dire consequences. While H5N1 doesn't easily infect people, H3N2 viruses do. If someone exposed to a mixture of the two had been simultaneously infected with both strains, he or she could have served as an incubator for a hybrid virus able to transmit easily to and among people."
But wait - it gets even better!
You'll never guess which company has been contracted to produce a vaccine to stop the current swine flu outbreak.
No, really. You'll never, ever guess, so I'll just tell you.
Illinois-based Baxter working on vaccine to stop swine flu outbreak in Mexico
By Associated Press
9:22 PM CDT, April 25, 2009
DEERFIELD, Ill. (AP)
"Specialty drug maker Baxter International Inc. will work with the World Health Organization to develop a vaccine that could stem an outbreak of a deadly swine flu strain in Mexico.
Baxter spokesman Christopher Bona said Saturday that the Deerfield, Ill.-based company has asked the WHO for a sample of the flu strain.
He says Baxter has patented technology that allows the company to develop vaccines in half the time it usually takes - about 13 weeks instead of 26.
There have been 20 confirmed deaths in Mexico of the swine flu, with nonfatal cases also confirmed in Kansas and California.
Humans don't have a natural immunity to swine flu strain that emerged in Mexico in March. Officials have warned the outbreak could become a global epidemic."
Now, if you're thinking that this confluence of events and circumstances is all just a wacky coincidence, and that conspiracy theories are crazy, and that I'm just a paranoid, unpatriotic asshole, I would like to respectfully ask you to fuck off, because the period where we trust governments and corporations to NOT infect us for profit are fucking over, ok?
Because that's exactly what they've been doing for quite a while now.
If you don't believe me, watch this:
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Or this: