Posted on 08/08/2007 3:02:35 AM PDT by listenhillary
The deliberate release of viral material, possibly in an act of sabotage, may have caused the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak, officials said last night.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said in a report ordered by the Prime Minister that “release by human movement [of the FMD virus] must be considered a real possibility”.
Inspectors all but discounted theories that the virus escaped by air or water from the laboratory complex close to where the outbreak started, although they are continuing to investigate the possibility of equipment failure or a security breach.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
“The investigations concentrated on the actions of the IAH and Merial from July 14-25 as the dates identified by Defra when the escape must have taken place. Both research organisations used the viral strain during that time but whereas IAH employed it only in small scale experiments, Merial was involved in creating “large scale production” of 10,000 litres.”
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What would they do with 10,000 litres???
“Sabotage”! Thank GHod it wasn’t terrorism. /sarc
Then again, “Sabotagé”! sounds like the three stooges.
Just a simple coincidence that it follows something or other that happened at airports and on the trains and buses.
Brown: "Our British 'War on Doctors' is now expanded to a 'War on Biologists'."
Should investigators find that biosecurity systems or equipment at IAH were in any way to blame for the outbreak, ministers would face allegations that the failure was caused by years of underfunding.
If Merial is identified as the source of the disease outbreak the firm would face the potential of a multimillion-pound class action for damages by farmers whose businesses have been affected. Both Gordon Brown and Mr Benn appeared to point the finger of blame at Merial last night. They both suggested that further investigations would concentrate on equipment at Merial whereas the report that had been made public made no distinction between the company and IAH.
No political CYA involved here, of course. None at all.
Furthermore, a finding of sabotage, rather than negligence, would be to the best advantage of the government.
Merial (owned by Merck) makes vaccine.
Has all the post-9/11 ANTHRAX gone down the memory hole?
I Guess so.
And today we’re STILL taking our shoes off to board the plane....
What is really scary is that if they can get to FMD, what else can they get to.
When it was first reported that the viral strain was the same as used in the lab, my first thought was that animal rights ‘activists’(terrorists) had deliberately released it. The effect of shutting down the beef industry would be worth the deaths of the cattle involved to them.
and just how many mooslimb doctors and scientists are working at the facility....?
Make vaccines.
Biowarfare is already here. As the islamonazis lose the war they will become more desperate. My solution is a polygraph test and deep background investigation of every muslim in our countries. The terrorist supporters should be deported or jailed permanently. That’s the only way I can see to separate the sheep from the wolves.
Biowarfare is already here. As the islamonazis lose the war they will become more desperate. My solution is a polygraph test and deep background investigation of every muslim in our countries. The terrorist supporters should be deported or jailed permanently. That’s the only way I can see to separate the sheep from the wolves.
“On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”?
fyi
A serious debate has to occur by non-moslems. Is islam a faith or a political movement. Right now it is acting like a political movement, it is speaking like a political movement, and it is responding like a political movement. We just traded communist dictatorships for islamic dictarorship as the enemy.
The problem is the peace at any price leftists refuse to accept the truth until their own necks are sawed off. (if their own child is hacked headless thats ok for them because they have a cofin to put their podium.)
Remember ‘those who cure you will kill you’?
Remember the muslim medical staff who refused to wash their hands?
We are not safe anywhere.
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