There are plans to build a deadly high level virus containment facility and animal testing lab in Kings Cross. The lab could be level 3 facility which means that it could contain deadly pathogens such as anthrax and bird flu. The lab has been criticised by MI5, MPs, councillors, business and local resdients. Now scientists have admitted that the deadly Swine Flu was leaked from a lab 3 decades ago.
Scientists have admitted that the strain of influenza known as "Swine Flu" which has killed 300 people was possibly leaked from a lab three decades ago. They believe that the flu strain could be realted to a strain leaked from a lab in Russia in the 1970s.
This shows that no lab is infallible and that Kings Cross is an unsuitable place for a deadly lab. Scientists from the NIMR have criticised the lab on safety grounds and approached the Camden New Journal. MI5 approached the Evening Standard regarding safety fears. No matter how impregnable the proposed lab there are always possibilties that transportation of deadly pathogens through built up London will pose a risk. Pathogens are transported using courier firms and even bicycle couriers carry deadly germs across the city.
This lab is a dangeous, ill thought out proposal and ought to be opposed.
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/BLISS-Lab
Contact Camden council to oppose planning permission.
Camden Council
Camden Town Hall
Judd Street
Camden
London
WC1
This shows that no lab is infallible and that Kings Cross is an unsuitable place for a deadly lab. Scientists from the NIMR have criticised the lab on safety grounds and approached the Camden New Journal. MI5 approached the Evening Standard regarding safety fears. No matter how impregnable the proposed lab there are always possibilties that transportation of deadly pathogens through built up London will pose a risk. Pathogens are transported using courier firms and even bicycle couriers carry deadly germs across the city.
This lab is a dangeous, ill thought out proposal and ought to be opposed.
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/BLISS-Lab Contact Camden council to oppose planning permission.
Camden Council
Camden Town Hall
Judd Street
Camden
London
WC1
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I know you really don't want the Camden lab...
20.07.2009 05:47
You might as well publish claims like "In the event of an earthquake, experts claim, virses could leak from the Camden labs"......... no factual basis but you found a linky somewhere!
Here is the background to your story........ ie putting some facts behind your knee-jerk claims.
Firstly, your story is a Daily Mail story , and true to Daily Heil form, they provide little more information.
Thyey do mention the New England Journal of Medicine, the full report is here:
Yes there is mention of the possible Russian lab leak, however there are several other factors that are behind this outbreak:
"Although the immediate genetic event that led to the emergence of the new pandemic threat was a reassortment between two influenza A (H1N1) swine viruses, these two viruses were actually the products of at least four independent avian-to-mammalian cross-species transmissions, with at least four previous reassortments of gene segments among avian, human, and swine-adapted viruses (Figure 2). One consequence of this intertwined history is that S-OIV shares three gene segments with current seasonal human influenza A (H1N1) virus and three segments with human seasonal influenza A (H3N2) virus."
Upshot: Next time you want to rant against the Camden Lab, get your sources and facts straight..... you might be approaching the paranoid conspiracy level with this, but you will not gain any support re-hashing Daily Heil articles.
Bob
Bobs view
22.07.2009 09:43
Someone must have the answers ? Bob?
al asitis
Virus labs should be on uninhabited islands
22.07.2009 18:47
1977 Swine Flu leak from US lab
1978 Smallpox leak from English lab
2007 Foot and Mouth leaks from English lab
Danny
Mandy Ford AKA Sarah AKA Camden Sanity Brigade AKA wiki AKA TBC.....
22.07.2009 21:50
She has multiple personalities......
mandy ford
"The Camden sanity Brigade" is not run by Mandy Ford, it is run by SHACWATCH
22.07.2009 23:32
Craig
OMG!!!!
23.07.2009 15:23
I suppose If I wanted to go and find out about procedures I could, my point was that the first post was effectively lifted from the Daily Heil with NO REFERENCE at all. In the interest of drumming up any suport at all a half decent, fully referenced article would have been more effective.
@ al asitis
Dear OMG [Panda]
24.07.2009 03:03
As for drumming up support against the lab...if there is a leak from the lab [such as has happened with Swine Flu] then Daily Mail readers and writers will be affected every bit as much as anyone else by the consequences.
I suppose there could be a Daily Mail readers only special quarantine zone....
James
@James
24.07.2009 06:35
As for looking on your myspace page........... myspace page layouts make my eyes bleed so I rarely follow links to myspace!!
Bob