Chinese scientists attacked for creating killer flu strain [View all]
Source: Belfast Telegraph
BY STEVE CONNOR – 03 May 2013
Scientists have criticised the “appalling irresponsibility” of researchers in China who have deliberately created new strains of influenza virus in a veterinary laboratory.
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“The record of containment in labs like this is not reassuring. They are taking it upon themselves to create human-to-human transmission of very dangerous viruses. It’s appallingly irresponsible,” he said.
The controversial study into viral mixing was carried out by a team led by Professor Hualan Chen, director of China’s National Avian Influenza Reference Laboratory at Harbin Veterinary Research Institute.
Professor Chen and her colleagues deliberately mixed the H5N1 bird-flu virus, which is highly lethal but not easily transmitted between people, with a 2009 strain of H1N1 flu virus, which is very infectious to humans.
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That is some scary shit. I understand they claim that they are doing it to study how to make a vaccine for H5N1 before the virus self-mutates, but if that stuff escapes from the lab, the world could see a repeat of 1918.
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