Baxter admits flu product contained live bird flu virus
Updated Fri. Feb. 27 2009 2:56 PM ET
Updated Fri. Feb. 27 2009 2:56 PM ET
The Canadian Press
TORONTO -- The company that released contaminated flu virus material from a plant in Austria confirmed Friday that the experimental product contained live H5N1 avian flu viruses...
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.