The scientific journal Nature reports today that flu researchers are slamming the US for hoarding critical data - and the damage control boys are
working over time, trying to shift the blame onto China.
www.alertnet.org
LONDON, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Influenza researchers are being hindered in their work by the United States' disease control agency's reluctance to
share data, according to the journal Nature. ...Its Thursday edition reports widespread concerns that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) was not making enough flu data available.
"Many in the influenza field are displeased with the CDC's practice of refusing to deposit sequences of most of the strains that they sequence,"
Michael Deem of Rice University in Houston, who works on predicting flu vaccine efficiency, was quoted as saying. ...One evolutionary ecologist, who
declined to be named, said: "Getting data from them has been somewhere between extremely difficult and impossible."
Nature said that of about 15,000 influenza A sequences in the gene database Genbank and the influenza sequence database at the Los Alamos National
Laboratory in New Mexico, fewer than a tenth were deposited by the CDC.
Springer Bites: Accepts Damage Control at Face Value
Please visit the link provided for the complete story.
It's the old distract, disinform, and shift blame shuffle. Ho hum.
Most likely, what we're seeing here is yet another policy of benign neglect. Scientists like Rachel Carson, David Suzuki, Stanley Prusiner, and more
have been warning people for half a century that an unprecedented Super Flu is coming. The counterspin said, "Don't worry. Be happy," and told
everyone to "think positive."
Well, despite all that positive thinking, the Super Flu is here now. And it's not China's fault.
WHO Refutes Claims Bird Flu Originated in China
english.people.com.cn...
www.chinadaily.com.cn...
insidecostarica.com...
bird-flu-news.newslib.com...
Here's a quick overview of
hard scientific and political/economic information about bird flu available right here on ATS:
Flu Vaccine Technology: Who's Blocking its Use?
WHO Pushes for Bird Flu Vaccine Production
Bush Pushes Wrong Flu Vaccine to American People
Bush Signs Quarantine Orders for Bird Flu
Government Plans for Flu Epidemic: Update
Military Says Terrorists Might Use Bird Flu as Bioweapon
Threat Analysis: Genetically Engineered Stealth Bio-weapons
Humans Included in the 6th Mass Extinction?
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[edit on 21-9-2005 by soficrow]
[edit on 9-22-2005 by Springer]
