#bioterrorisme

Experts condemn plans to lift ban on research into deadly H5N1 birdflu virus - Science - The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/experts-condemn-plans-to-lift-ban-on-research-into-deadly-h5n1-birdfl

Richard Roberts, a Nobel prize-winning molecular biologist and expert in genetic engineering, said the moratorium should continue and that many experts are privately appalled that there are plans to lift it but are afraid of speaking out over fears that it might affect their funding from the NIH.

“It’s a big mistake at this point. The flu community is behaving as if they are the only show in town. I think for them to be allowed to create the most dangerous virus around is sheer lunacy,” said Dr Roberts (...).

“I’m not so much worried about terrorism but I am worried about an accidental escape from a laboratory. If it’s as dangerous as they believe, it could kill half the world’s population,” he said.

#h5n1 #recherche #censure #bioterrorisme #santé

Moratoire sur les virus contagieux de H5N1
http://www.letemps.ch/Page/Uuid/8069b3da-45ff-11e1-9364-c19d868867da/Moratoire_sur_les_virus_contagieux_de_H5N1

Des chercheurs ont créé un virus transmissible entre mammifères. Par crainte du #bioterrorisme, les autorités américaines veulent censurer leurs résultats

#sciences #recherche #santé

Flu Season - by Laurie Garrett | Foreign Policy
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/05/flu_season?page=full

When flu scientist Ron Fouchier of Erasmus University in Rotterdam announced in September that he had made a highly contagious, supervirulent form of the bird-flu virus, a long chain of political events unfolded, mostly out of the public eye.

#h5n1 #grippe #bioterrorisme #armement #biologique

U.S. Asks Journals to Censor Articles on Bird Flu Virus - NYTimes
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/21/health/fearing-terrorism-us-asks-journals-to-censor-articles-on-virus.html?_r=2

For the first time ever, a government advisory board is asking scientific journals not to publish details of certain biomedical experiments, for fear that the information could be used by terrorists to create deadly viruses and touch off epidemics.

#censure #recherche #grippe #h5n1 #armes #bioterrorisme

Did Bruce Ivins Hide Attack Anthrax From the FBI? - ProPublica
http://www.propublica.org/article/did-ivins-give-the-fbi-a-fake-sample-of-his-own-anthrax

a re-examination of the anthrax investigation by Frontline, McClatchy and ProPublica turned up new evidence that challenges the FBI’s narrative of Ivins as a man with a guilty conscience who was desperately trying to avoid being discovered.

Records recently released under the Freedom of Information Act show that Ivins made available a total of four sets of samples from 2002 to 2004, double the number the FBI has disclosed. And in subsequent FBI tests, three of the four sets ultimately tested positive for the morphs.

#bioterrorisme #anthrax

Anthrax Redux : Did the Feds Nab the Wrong Guy ? | Magazine
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/03/ff_anthrax_fbi/all/1

plein de détails de laboratoire à propos de l’enquête sur les attaques au bacille du charbon en octobre 2001.

[Bruce] Ivins measured the concentration of the sample. It came out to a trillion spores per gram—three orders of magnitude more dense than anything the USAMRIID researchers had ever grown. “These are not ‘garage’ spores,” Ivins later wrote in an analysis. “Professional manufacturing techniques were used.”

http://stag.wired.com/magazine/wp-content/images/19-04/ff_anthrax_fbi3b_f.jpg
#bioterrorisme #etats-unis #recherche #bio-armement