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Deadly Flu Strain Shipped Worldwide

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By Rob Stein and Shankar Vedantam
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, April 13, 2005; Page A01

A dangerous strain of the flu virus that caused a worldwide pandemic in 1957 was sent to thousands of laboratories in the United States and around the world, triggering a frantic effort to destroy the samples to prevent an outbreak, health officials revealed yesterday.

Because the virus is easily transmitted from person to person and many people have no immunity to it, the discovery has raised alarm that it could cause another deadly pandemic if a laboratory worker became infected, officials said.

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It was sent out through The National Microbiology Laboratory, in collaboration with the University of Manitoba, the Province of Manitoba Department of Health, the Winnipeg which is funded by grants from Monsanto Company.

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Biotech Company Fined $500,000 in Chicken Virus Smuggling Case Portsmouth Herald News ( New Hampshire) ^ | 7 August 2005 | Staff

Posted on 08/07/2005 1:51:06 PM EDT by Our_Man_In_Gough_Island

BANGOR, Maine - A Maine biotechnology company has been fined $500,000 for illegally smuggling a chicken virus into the United States from Saudi Arabia so it could create a vaccine.

U.S. District Judge John Woodcock on Friday followed the prosecutors' recommended fine against Maine Biological Laboratory of Winslow. The fine includes more than $319,000 in profits the firm made on the illegal vaccine.

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Maine Biological Laboratories (MBL)
PO Box 255
Waterville ME 04903-0255

Phone:

207-873-3989 FAX:	207-873-4975 Tollfree:	800-639-1582 Internet:http://www.mainebiolab.com/
Founded:1957 ----------------------------------------------------------- Now look at this, NOTE address and web url: Lohmann Animal Health International PO Box 255 Waterville, ME, 04903-0255 Tel.: (207) 873-3989 Fax: (207) 873-4975 Contact: Mr. David Zacek http://www.mainebiolab.com From: http://www.regione.sicilia.it/Cooperazione/pmi/paese/all4usb.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------ Lohmann Animal Health International is funded by Monsanto Company through NIH grants, HEINZ-Lohmann-Strasse, Pfizer.