Baxter Sent Bird Flu Virus to European Labs by Error

Via Global Research

The following article published by Bloomberg in February confirms that Baxter was involved "unintentionally" in the contamination of flu vaccines. This happened barely two months after the outbreak of the H1N1 swine flu in Mexico in April.

Baxter contaminated vaccine samples with the H5N1 bird flu virus. Apart from the Bloomberg report, the matter was barely covered by the mainstream press.

This information is crucial, bearing in mind Baxter's central role in producing millions of doses of H1N1 vaccines for a number member countries of the WHO.

Swine Flu may have Escaped from a Laboratory ... And Tamiflu started off with bird poo

From Global Research:

Gibbs said he has no evidence that the swine-derived virus was a deliberate, man-made product.

“I don’t think it could be a malignant thing,” he said. “It’s much more likely that some random thing has put these two viruses together.”

Gibbs, who spent most of his academic career studying plant viruses, said his major contribution to the study of influenza occurred in 1975, while collaborating with scientists Graeme Laver and Robert Webster in research that led to the development of the anti-flu medicines Tamiflu and Relenza, made by GlaxoSmithKline Plc.

“We were out on one of the Barrier Reef islands, off Australia, catching birds for the flu in them, and I happened to be the guy who caught the best,” Gibbs said. The bird he got “yielded the poo from which was isolated the influenza isolate strain from which all the work on Tamiflu and Relenza started.”

Gibbs, who says he studies the evolution of flu viruses as a “retirement hobby,” expects his research to be challenged by other scientists.

“This is how science progresses,” he said. “Somebody comes up with a wild idea, and then they all pounce on it and kick you to death, and then you start off on another silly idea.”