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Science Magazine/ ANTHRAX INVESTIGATION: FBI Discusses Microbial Forensics–but Key Questions Remain Unanswered

Science 22 August 2008:Vol. 321. no. 5892, pp. 1026 – 1027 excerpted from the body of the article: (my apologies that a free link is not available) …The FBI disclosed earlier that only eight samples had all four mutations; on Monday, it said that all but one of these came from USAMRIID. And all eight…

Live Avian Vaccines Recombine to Cause Disease They Were Intended to Prevent / Wired and ScienceNOW

From Wired and ScienceNOW comes this very worrisome piece about how two different, attenuated live virus vaccines for infectious laryngotracheitis in chickens recombined to form a virus twice as deadly as the disease the vaccines were intended to prevent.  (The death rate in chickens increased from 8% to 17%.)  Chickens in multiple parts of Australia were…

Muddying the waters: contradictory NAS Report interpretations, and how the report itself asks to be read

Professor Paul Keim, an anthrax genetics expert at Northern Arizona University and FBI contractor, is claiming the NAS report supports the FBI’s case.  It doesn’t.  Please review the report and judge for yourself. The NAS report has many confusing aspects.  But it basically says: The FBI totally screwed up its data collection of anthrax samples,…

NYC Offers vaccine to gay men during last week of PRIDE month events.

One clinic in NYC is offering the Jynneos vaccine, and it has 100 doses and is booked through Monday, June 27.  One hopes these men will be carefully followed for side effects and to learn if the vaccine works in humans.  One hopes they are informed about what they are getting.  Were they warned about…

Unlearned lessons from the Steven Hatfill case/ Salon (Glen Greenwald)

From Glenn Greenwald’s blog at Salon.com: … It requires an extreme level of irrationality to read what happened to Hatfill and simultaneously to have faith that the “real anthrax attacker” has now been identified as a result of the FBI’s wholly untested and uninvestigated case against Bruce Ivins.  The parallels are so overwhelming as to be self-evident….

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