ALERT !!! (BIRDFLU) CONTAMINATED VIALS SENT TO EUROPE!!!

What urks me most about this incident is that it's barley made ANY news coverage... i had to stumble upon it and now try and make it publicly aware MYSELF... i found only a few news articles.... WHY would something like a possible PANDEMIC be kept from the news?! RIGHT?! .... well i suggest that anyone reading this do a little of your own research and see for yourself... the wife and I are sending as many emails and posting this at a few other places to try and gain public awareness... we're also contacting the local news stations here because something like this should be on the evening news letting people know at least that they have in under control and that they are doing whatever needs to be done to prevent it from happening again.... this kind of news should NOT be overlooked and only found in a half dozen online news articles.... I found only two home made videos on the subject.... you can view them here.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKKznz_pzVE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf_JNIS0Voc

http://www.lifegen.de/newsip/shownews.php4?getnews=2009-03-04-0800&pc=s01

http://www.lifegen.de/newsip/shownews.php4?getnews=2009-02-25-5123&pc=s01

Officials are trying to get to the bottom of how vaccine manufacturer Baxter International Inc. made an experimental vaccine contaminated with the H5N1 avian flu virus and then distributed it to an Austrian company.
Accidental release of a mixture of live H5N1 and H3N2 viruses - if that indeed happened - could have resulted in dire consequences. Nicoll said officials still aren't 100 per cent sure the mixture contained live H5N1 viruses. But given that ferrets exposed to the mixture died, it likely did.

If someone exposed to the mixture had been co-infected with H5N1 and H3N2, the person could have served as an incubator for a hybrid virus able to transmit easily to and among people. That mixing process, called reassortment, is one of two ways pandemic viruses are created.

(BIRD FLU)H5N1 and H3N2 viruses mate readily. While less virulent than H5N1, a number of the offspring viruses appeared to retain at least a portion of the killing power of their dangerous parent.
Alarm bells rang in early February when researchers at the Czech sub-contractor inoculated ferrets with the material and the animals promptly died. Baxter learned about the problem on Feb. 6.

People familiar with biosecurity rules are dismayed by evidence that human H3N2 and avian H5N1 viruses have somehow co-mingled in the Baxter research facility. That should not be allowed to happen, a number of experts insisted.Baxter's error is reminiscent of a 2005 incident where a U.S. manufacturer of kits used by laboratories to test their detection capabilities included vials of H2N2 virus in several thousand proficiency kits. H2N2, the virus that caused the 1957 pandemic, has not circulated since 1968 and is thought to be a prime candidate to cause the next pandemic.

That mistake, discovered by Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory, set authorities around the world scrambling to retrieve and destroy the vials of virus, which had been sent to labs in 18 countries.