U.S. Develops Lethal New Bio-weapon Viruses

[clem_c_rock]

http://www.projectcensored.org/publications/2005/15.html

And, uh, tell us more about all those countries developing WMD's.

That sure is a great fucking story isn't it?

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Mark Buller of the University of St. Louis has managed to modify mousepox, rabbitpox, and cowpox viruses so that they are deadly to vaccinated mice nearly 100% of the time through the introduction of an immunosuppressant protein called Interleukin-4 (IL-4). The modified pox viruses eliminate the immune system’s cell-mediated response. They are now immune to the antiviral drug Cidofovir, known to be the last line of defense in treating resistant viruses.
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[rooboy]

1. Don't be surprised. It's all written in the PNAC document. n/t

[clem_c_rock]

3. EVERYTHING they're doing is clearly wrtten in "Rebuilding

America's Defenses".

It's right in everyone's f***ing face and yet, noone discusses it.

Can you imagine a major media outlet running a story on that document?

[LibertyorDeath]

2. Scary especially this part

Scientists at the Australian National University in Canberra made the original discovery by accident, though their virus only killed off sixty percent of infected mice. As a side effect of introducing IL-4 into pox viruses, the virus becomes species specific and non-communicable, though no one is quite sure why this is the case.

The implications of this discovery and their disclosure are staggering. IL-4 is a protein common in genetic research and as such is available on the Internet for as low as sixty dollars. Furthermore the procedure is simple, something that a biology graduate student should be able to manage without trouble. The bio-terrorist potential for an IL-4 modified pox virus that infects humans is extraordinary. Like anthrax, only those who come into contact with the virus itself would become infected. The virus would not spread and infect the attackers. Neither would it require state of the art scientific facilities to create such a virus. Buller and his team are currently working on a drug to resist the new viruses, but have so far been unsuccessful in making it 100% effective.
http://www.projectcensored.org/publications/2005/15.html

[lenidog]

4. That is pretty scary but what really frightened me was something

I read in a book called "Biohazard" by Ken Alibek. He was a top researcher in the Soviet Army Bio-warfare research division. Those insane SOBS were trying to brew up stuff that makes this look like a runny nose. One of the scariest little projects that they were working on was trying to splice together ebola with small pox. Giving you a disease with a 100% mortality rate that was as infectious as small pox.

[LibertyorDeath]

5. I hope they weren't successful

"trying to splice together ebola with small pox"

I often wonder if they test this stuff on 3rd World populations