DAILY DIALECTIC
March 05, 2009
"The company that released contaminated flu virus material from a plant in Austria confirmed Friday that the experimental product contained live H5N1 avian flu viruses... The contamination incident, which is being investigated by the four European countries, came to light when the subcontractor in the Czech Republic inoculated ferrets with the product and they died. Ferrets shouldn't die from exposure to human H3N2 flu viruses... On Friday, the company's director of global bioscience communications confirmed what scientists have suspected... 'It was live,' Christopher Bona said in an email..."

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