Is Big Pharma behind push to release critical details about H5N1 'super virus'?

Thursday, February 23, 2012 by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer
Tags: H5N1, super virus, Big Pharma

(NaturalNews) For the past several months, there has been an ongoing debate about whether or not to publish controversial research about a new militarized and highly-virulent strain of H5N1 avian flu capable of spreading between mammals, including between humans. The U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) holds the position that certain details about how the virus was created should be withheld from publishing, while various others in the scientific community, many of which appear to work for vaccine interests, are demanding full disclosure.

The issue stems from research conducted by Dr. Ron Fouchier and his colleagues from Erasmus Medical Centre in the Netherlands that resulted in the deliberate creation of a weaponized form of H5N1 that spreads between mammals. Prior to this research, H5N1 transmission was limited primarily to birds, as natural forms of the virus do not typically afflict mammals (https://www.naturalnews.com/034228_bioterrorism_flu_strain.html).

But after years of warning the public that H5N1 would one day magically transform into a "super virus" capable of killing billions of people, the U.S. government and others conveniently saw their prediction come true in the form of an intentional "transformation" brought about by research, the details of which many are pushing to have published for the whole world to see. And based on recent reports, those pushing for their release appear to have dollar signs in their eyes, as gaining access to how the virus was made will allow them to create vaccines for this super virus once it is "accidentally" released into the wild.

Problem - Reaction - Solution: Militarized H5N1 could generate billions of dollars for vaccine industry while killing off billions of people

At a recent closed meeting between influenza experts and U.S. security officials that was organized by the World Health Organization (WHO), only one member of the NSABB, infectious disease expert Paul Keim of Northern Arizona University, was in attendance. And according to reports, Keim "got the hell beat out of him" by many of the others in attendance with interests in developing and promoting new vaccines for H5N1.

"It was a closed meeting dominated by flu people who have a vested interest in continuing this kind of work," said a scientist close to the NSABB, to Reuters. These attendees included the lead researchers of the study; Dr. Bruce Alberts, Editor-in-Chief of the journal Science who indicated recently that he plans to publish the full research; those who funded the research and provided viruses for it; and several bioethicists and directors from laboratories that specialize in influenza research.

Dr. Alberts, of course, used to be president of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) from 1993 - 2005 before taking on his current role as head of Science. NAS, of course, is part of the same National Academies as the Institute of Medicine, which we exposed back in August 2011 as being directly tied to the military and medical industrial complexes that promote vaccines (https://www.naturalnews.com/033455_Institute_of_Medicine_vaccines.html).

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