You know, I've heard about that somewhere before!
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"Scientists warn against closing Navy lab; Indonesia facility is called an asset" by Paul Watson, Los Angeles Times | July 7, 2008
JAKARTA, Indonesia -Threats to shut down a US Navy medical research lab here might undermine the hunt for mutating viruses that could set off the next global flu pandemic, Western scientists warn.
So when are you guys planning to release the pathogens?
Indonesia suspended negotiations with the United States over the fate of Naval Medical Research Unit No. 2 last month after senior politicians said it didn't benefit Indonesia and could be a cover for spying.
Or for GERM WARFARE!!!!
The US Embassy denied the facility is used to gather intelligence, and said most of the lab's staff are Indonesians helping with research carried out in cooperation with local health officials.
CIA NOCs?
The biomedical research lab opened in Jakarta in 1970 and studies tropical diseases including malaria, dengue fever, and avian flu, according to an embassy fact sheet.
Studies or CREATES?!
Navy research labs also are in Egypt, Kenya, Peru, and Thailand.
The GLOBAL EXTERMINATION PLAN is even bigger than I thought!!!!
Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono said last month that his ministry recommended the lab be closed because its operations were too secretive, and were incompatible with Indonesia's security interests.
US officials say privately that the dispute is part of a bigger argument over sharing virus samples, including strains of the Avian flu, which the World Health Organization warns could set off a global pandemic.
Before Indonesia announced in January 2007 that it no longer would share samples with other countries, the naval lab did research on normal flu viruses from seasonal outbreaks as well bird flu cases treated in Indonesian hospitals.
"Sometimes you test a virus and you don't know if it's Avian influenza, or normal flu, or something completely different," said a Western scientist who spoke on condition of anonymity. "Nobody knows what they are," she added. "Maybe there could be a pandemic from a different, new strain."
You SEE where this is all LEADING, right?
In its current form, the avian flu spreads from birds, usually infected poultry, to humans, but the infection rate is low.
A second Western scientist said that Indonesia has many strains of the avian flu virus, and that without constant research, a different strain more easily transmitted to humans could catch scientists off guard, and spread rapidly before a vaccine is ready.
That's the COVER STORY they put up -- like the "monkey bites man" bit.
After announcing the ban on virus-sharing, Dr. Siti Fadilah Supari. the health minister who is a cardiologist, published a book in which she warned that any viruses shared with other countries could be turned into biological weapons.
She also recounted a meeting in Geneva with John E. Lange, the US special representative for pandemic flu, in which she told him: "It is not impossible that there will be a group of people in developed countries insane enough to reengineer the viruses to create an outbreak in the Third World.' "
See top of post.
Her book, widely sold in English and Bahasa editions, also said the pressure to share viruses was an example of exploitation of developing countries' natural resources.
"They also exploited part of the human body from the people of the powerless countries," the health minister wrote. "They took our blood. They took our cells. They took our antibodies.
"And perhaps it would be more dangerous when, in the end they would take our brain cells as well, to be re-engineered to create a new generation of slaves."
It is meant to be presented as if she is crazy, but she's not!
In January, she insisted the move to stop virus-sharing was necessary to protect poor nations from profiteering drug companies. Indonesia says it fears vaccines developed from local viruses will go to foreigners first, leaving Indonesians without protection or profit.
