From the people who brought you FEMA: US uses live bird flu viruses in vaccine experiment 18 Dec 2005 In an isolation ward of a Baltimore hospital, up to 30 'volunteers' will participate this April in a bold experiment: A vaccine made with a live version of the most notorious bird flu will be sprayed into their noses. [The Bush bioterror team is in a hurry to get the pandemic party started, in order to implement a full-blown police state. Dictator Bush needs to justify his warrantless eavesdropping and to insure re-authorization of the Patriot Act.]
WASHINGTON -- In an isolation ward of a Baltimore hospital, up to 30 volunteers will participate in a bold experiment: A vaccine made with a live version of the most notorious bird flu will be sprayed into their noses.
First, scientists are dripping that vaccine into the tiny nostrils of mice. It doesn't appear harmful _ researchers have weakened and genetically altered the virus so that no one should get sick or spread germs _ and it protects the animals enough to try in people.
This is essentially FluMist for bird flu, and the hope is that, in the event of a flu pandemic, immunizing people through their noses could provide faster, more effective protection than the troublesome shots _ made with a killed virus _ the nation now is struggling to produce.
WASHINGTON -- In an isolation ward of a Baltimore hospital, up to 30 volunteers will participate in a bold experiment: A vaccine made with a live version of the most notorious bird flu will be sprayed into their noses.
First, scientists are dripping that vaccine into the tiny nostrils of mice. It doesn't appear harmful _ researchers have weakened and genetically altered the virus so that no one should get sick or spread germs _ and it protects the animals enough to try in people.
This is essentially FluMist for bird flu, and the hope is that, in the event of a flu pandemic, immunizing people through their noses could provide faster, more effective protection than the troublesome shots _ made with a killed virus _ the nation now is struggling to produce.
