18 January 2007

We have a "National Microbiology Laboratory?"

Canadian scientists are examining the 1918 H1N1 Spanish Flu... to determine what it can tell us about H5N1 Avian...
-- Then, in a maximum "biosafety" facility at Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory they reconstructed a fully functioning virus, and infected macaque monkeys to see what would happen. --
It sure ain't pretty, but it's important to know what happens...
-- This ability to alter the body's immune response is shared with the most recent candidate for mutation into a pandemic strain, the H5N1 avian flu.
I only have one question.

Where exactly is this lab?

Winnipeg huh? Okay, I'm good with that.

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