west nile sold to bahdad- old news

[shamanstar]

i am wondering now if the whole west nile scare is going to be blamed on iraq eventually.

http://www.gulfweb.org/bigdoc/report/r_1_2.html#exports

The following is a detailed listing of biological materials, provided by the American Type Culture Collection, which were exported to agencies of the government of Iraq pursuant to the issueance of an export licensed by the U.S. Commerce Department:


(i have snipped the long list of items we sold to iraq)


Date : May 21, 1985
Sent To : Basrah, Iraq
Materials Shipped:

1. Lyophilized arbovirus seed
(etiologic)

2. West Nile Fever Virus

Date : April 26, 1985
Sent To : Minister of Health, Ministry of
Health, Baghdad, Iraq
Materials Shipped:

1. 8 vials antigen and antisera (r. rickettsii and r. typhi) to diagnose rickettsial infections (non-infectious

[DrWeird]

1. Given that it was traced back to a pair of Zebras at the Bronx Zoo...

I wonder if we're going to launch a full scale assault on the vast Zebra plantations of the Sunni Triangle.