Once again the American corporate controlled media fails to report important world news (for example, this is the front page article from CNN.com at the time of this post). What happened this time? Only a potential worldwide avian bird flu pandemic that could have infected and killed millions of people worldwide!

Thankfully, catastrophe was narrowly averted by a subcontractor who ran a series of last minute tests on a batch of “flu vaccines” from an Austrian plant owned by Baxter Pharmaceutical which was scheduled to ship to three other countries.  From the AP article:

People familiar with biosecurity rules are dismayed by evidence that human H3N2 and avian H5N1 viruses somehow co-mingled in the Orth-Donau facility. That is a dangerous practice that should not be allowed to happen, a number of experts insisted.

Accidental release of a mixture of live H5N1 and H3N2 viruses could have resulted in dire consequences.

While H5N1 doesn’t easily infect people, H3N2 viruses do. If someone exposed to a mixture of the two had been simultaneously infected with both strains, he or she could have served as an incubator for a hybrid virus able to transmit easily to and among people.

So basically, the H5N1 Avian bird flu virus, which is THE most deadly and pathogenic strain of the bird flu (according to WHO, it has a 50-70% fatality rate when contracted by humans) was somehow “accidentally” mixed with the common flu virus (which is very easy to transfer from human to human). This “virus cocktail” which could have easily mutated into a super lethal, easily transmittable world wide killer, would’ve been unleashed on unsuspecting recipients and caused untold damage.

There are “suspect” actions that are associated with the delivery of this batch of “flu vaccines”. Primarily, the contaminated product, a mix of H3N2 seasonal flu viruses were labeled appropriately, but the H5N1 viruses were not labeled at all. How could this happen? What is the explanation behind this potentially disastrous mistake?  According to Daily Kos:

Yes, Baxter is in the midst of finalizing it’s own version of a bird flu vaccine. Here’s a recent clinical trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

So just in summary: Here you have a company finalizing a license on a bird flu vaccine that ‘accidentally’ ships out the exact formula in it’s vaccines for creating a potential bird flu pandemic. A flu that would have at least a 60% kill rate among humans.

So a pharmaceutical company releases a super contagious strain of the most deadly form of avian bird flu on the unsuspecting public and then swoops in to save the day with the exact vaccine to stop any further infection? Sounds like a plot line for the next Resident Evil game…

So, you would think that some heads would roll after this incident right? Someone is losing their job if not sanctions, fines and possible prosecution right (quote from daily Kos below)?

And according to this interview with a spokesperson at Baxter, all procedures were followed correctly and no one is losing their job. Well, it’s good to know everything’s just fine.

I just want to personally thank the subcontractors in the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Germany. I owe you a beer.