WHO challenged at public hearing on the handling of the Swine Flu pandemic/ Council of Europe

From the February 27 NY Times … More problematic is the investigative work that led the F.B.I. to concludethat only Dr. Ivins, among perhaps 100 scientists who had access to the sameflask, could have sent the letters. The case has always been hobbled by a lack of direct evidence tying Dr. Ivins to the letters….

Glenn Greenwald (Salon) talks about the origins of this story.  He covers the media response to the FBI’s case in 2008, when calls for an independent investigation came from … the editorial pages of The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal).  Mainstream scientific sources were equally skeptical; Nature called for an independent investigation and…

From Mike Wiser, Greg Gordon and Stephen Engelberg come the following story: Justice Department lawyers filed a brief on July 15 that said Bruce Ivins did not have access to equipment in the Fort Detrick hot suites that would have enabled him to make the dried anthrax found in letters to two Senators.  … the…

https://ctva.tv/watch-on-demand-below/?video_id=58351&title=TIMELINE%20with%20TERRY%20-%20Guest%20Dr.%20Meryl%20Nass

As discussed in this blog last October and November, Ebola transmission by air is likely, but also likely not a major form of spread. The WaPo comments on an academic piece written by several experts in the field: … As evidence, the research notes that Ebola virus has been found on the outside of face masks…

From the WaPo: Despite months of dire warnings and millions in taxpayer dollars, less than half of the 229 million doses of H1N1 vaccine the government bought to fight the pandemic have been administered — leaving an estimated 71.5 million doses that must be discarded if they are not used before they expire…(and 25 million…