Posted on 04/12/2005 10:17:54 PM PDT by neverdem
Now, I ask me ... what kind of PT test could I possibly run on a disease that I would need global conformation as well?
Dead skunk in the middle of the road.
That sounds like a "cover your butt" statement and they seem to be hoping that someone will fall for it.
I don't know anyone that stupid.
Between Drilling to the bottom of the Earth's crust and disturbing Comet orbits, and now this, I tend to agree with you. They could care less about the rest of us billions, only thing that matters is doing research and amazing feats. They're lack of common sense is mind boggling and dangerous.
Their reference standards don't include Influenza type B samples.
Who sent it from where, and why doesn't it say?
By no stretch of the imagination is it a goof up.
Anything shipped from one lab to another would be clearly marked with what it was. It would also be marked in some fashion saying whether it was something newly emergent and unidentified or something already known. It would also be marked on it's risk of contagion factor. It would also be marked on it's lethality factor.
If these, and others, are not the relevant items, then you put a lot of faith in complete idiots.
And let me emphasize I am not arguing with you personally, it's just that I trust these croutons even less than I trust doctors.
My dear wife, who had a thyroid problem and went to her doctor no less than five times a year, fell over dead from an aneurysm.
Here we are worried about democrat versus republican and some unelected moron who sits behind a desk and wants fame and fortune makes a decision that could kill millions.
"Between Drilling to the bottom of the Earth's crust and disturbing Comet orbits, and now this, I tend to agree with you. They could care less about the rest of us billions, only thing that matters is doing research and amazing feats. They're lack of common sense is mind boggling and dangerous."
Two weeks passed from suffering from the nasty little monster roaming the plains.
NOW they decide to recall it......
The trouble is that the defensive study of viruses and the way in which they can be artificially modified by enemies requires the same equipment and gives one the same skills as those who would use it effectively. Which is why you will never convince all the major powers that their rivals aren't ready to biowar them into submission.
The moment you have a detailed enough knowledge of the 1918 Flu pandemic to understand why it was so prolific/successful and successful, you have taken a major step to replicating it deliberately. ANd even if you don't you make it that much harder to keep the knowledge secret...grave dangers but probably unavoidable.
We've had that nasty bug circulation here for months. It drops you down for at least four days, then hangs on for 2-3 weeks.
By the way, anybody know how these labs "lock down" the samples? Where do they go to be destroyed?
Here's a brief explanation from the article:
The problem arose when a private company, Meridian Bioscience Inc. of Cincinnati, sent a panel of virus samples to about 3,700 laboratories, some in doctors' offices, to be tested as part of routine quality-control certification conducted by the College of American Pathologists. An additional 2,750 laboratories, all in the United States, received the samples as part of other certification processes and were asked to destroy them, CDC spokesman Dan Rutz said.
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I've been doing some computer consulting work for a large hospital over the last couple of months. The office they gave me to work in is right next to the lab. I think I want a new office!
Greg
Our government will protect us from harm.
IMO they just did.
One would think that it would be a simple matter to have rounded up all the vials that stupidity caused to be shipped to the various laboratories.
This episode appears to be a replay of this October surprise:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1264257/posts
"...The bacteria -- which tainted about half of the nation's flu vaccine supply -- was once considered a harmless microbe. But a 1950 experiment, in which a ship off the San Francisco coast let loose clouds of Serratia marcescens to test whether an enemy could launch a biological warfare attack from a distance, is now suspected of causing a cluster of hard-to-treat infections..."
I think we dodged a bullet.
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