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So, Does the U.S. just not really care?
anhaga Started conversation Apr 15, 2005
I mean, first they let a medical supply company have a deadly flu virus, then that company is allowed to send the virus, without labelling, around the world, and then some of it goes missing on the way to Mexico and Lebanon!
So, are they passively hoping for a bioterrorist attack?
http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2005/04/15/flu-samples050415.html
If it comes, who will they blame it on? Mexico? Lebanon? The World Health Organization? The UN?
So, Does the U.S. just not really care?
There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Apr 15, 2005
I heard a piece about this on NPR a few days ago. Apparently they send a lot of these out by regular mail 
I wouldn't trust the USPS as far as I could spit a rat - they're hopeless 
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anhaga Posted Apr 15, 2005
Do you suppose one of the kits will show up on ebay? Perhaps http://www.ebay.lb or http://www.mercadolibre.com.mx/home_visitor.html?
So, Does the U.S. just not really care?
There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Apr 15, 2005
There is no ebay.lb 
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Apr 15, 2005
So, Does the U.S. just not really care?
Matthew G P Coe Posted Apr 19, 2005
The packages that are regularly sent out are for testing purposes--not of equipment, but of people. Various centres around world have to make sure they can still readily identify various disease, so a reasonably benign set is sent out. It's pretty much harmless, so as long it's packaged pretty well, it's safe for regular mail. They're not sent in a #10 envelope, people.
And the deadly flu virus that got sent. An /accident/. Not intended to happen. An unfortunate incident.. especially for the poor schmuck who did it, who inevitably got sacked.
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Mudhooks: ,,, busier than a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest... Posted Apr 19, 2005
No, not in a #10 envelope. However, they were sent via regular courier and were discovered as a result of the truck being in an accident. The boxes spilled out onto the road. Luckily none of the boxes were damaged. Miraculous, really, since they aren't packaged any more securely than any other medical sample.
"Last month, a FedEx truck carrying five boxes of samples of anthrax, flu, tuberculosis, salmonella and E. coli collided with a car in Winnipeg. None of the dangerous germs escaped."
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050415/NEWS03/104150081/-1/news
and this is soooo comforting!: "At least 18 such “hot labs” are being planned or built in the United States in the coming years, and a growing number of scientists are being trained in the darker aspects of microbiology as part of a huge federal effort to combat bioterrorism."
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anhaga Posted Apr 23, 2005
Just a little update: they've all been accounted for.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/78348473-746D-4DBB-AC44-B933DCF87DF7.htm
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DA ; Simply Vicky: Don't get pithy with me! Posted Apr 24, 2005
I am reading my way through Stephen King's 1153 word magnum opus, 'The Stand', and yes - it really is relevant to this...
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- 7: Matthew G P Coe (Apr 19, 2005)
- 8: Mudhooks: ,,, busier than a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest... (Apr 19, 2005)
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