Biolab Breakdown Caused Cattle Outbreak (Updated) | Danger Room | Wired.com
Biolab Breakdown Caused Cattle Outbreak (Updated)
* By Jason Sigger Email Author
* August 8, 2007
"In the United Kingdom, fresh fears over a new outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease have steered investigators to point to an unusual source - a pair of government-run laboratories run by the Big Pharma company Merck & Co. You might remember the name "Merck" as one of the primary midwives of the U.S. biological warfare program in the early 1940s - but that’s just a coincidence, I’m sure. From the NY Times:
There is a “strong probability” that the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Britain was caused by viruses that escaped somehow from a pair of veterinary laboratories where vaccines are made, a government report said today."