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China may be testing bird flu as a bioweapon
This is a translation of a post at Boxun, which broke the SARS story and has persistent rumours of human cases of bird flu in China. You have to scroll down to get the human translation by docomo. My read is in fact quite different to the posters in the thread. Were a major flu pandemic to break out, despite severe consequences, it would not result in 'regime change' in Western democracies, while it would seriously endanger the Chicom regime. So I think they may be testing bird flu containment by creating vaccine barriers and then releasing know strains and seeing if the vaccine barriers work. I know this sounds Dr. Strangelove conspiratorial but it has a certain logic. What if you were a Chicom leader and believed a major bird flu outbreak would lead to you and everyone you know hanging from a lampost, wouldn't you take the risk of testing in the field whether vaccines could stop its spread?Since the first appearance of bird flu, the chinese government has made some detailed classification for the mutated virus. Contrary to most speculations, related government departments have taken necessary measures to contain and counter the spreading of the virus. However, the chinese government is worried about the anti-communist movement may be able to put more pressure to the control of the communist government at this moment. Since 2004, the government has classified most infected or death cases caused by the virus, supplemented with the information gathered in qinghai. For non-fatal infectious diseases, the chinese government targeted at controlling information and quarantine measures. For infectious diseases which are fatal to human, the focus of the government is whether the virus can be converted to a biological weapon or not. The military will first research on the controllability of the virus. In some occasions, the virus may even be released to the public in order to test the effectiveness of the vaccines and preventive measures. Posted by: phil_b 2005-07-16 |
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