• Runaway bride : Biosecurity Runaway bride : Biosecurity From the Loveland (Colorado) Daily Reporter-Herald April 27, 2005 The world dodged a pandemic bullet when samples of a long-dormant flu strain were fully accounted for and destroyed. But don’t thank
• Runaway bride : Biosecurity
Runaway bride : Biosecurity
From the Loveland (Colorado) Daily Reporter-Herald April 27, 2005
The world dodged a pandemic bullet when samples of a long-dormant flu strain were fully accounted for and destroyed. But don’t thank the network of pseudo-governmental agencies and businesses that were involved. They are organized in such a fashion as to invite disaster.
Meridian Bioscience mistakenly sent samples of the 50-year-old H2N2/Japan flu strain as part of virus testing kits meant for 3,747 labs in the United States and another 61 in 18 other countries…
Once the error was discovered, the World Health Organization, to its credit, scrambled global resources to make sure the flu samples were secured and destroyed…
It’s one thing to worry about lab accidents; it’s quite another to worry about a flu pandemic that starts from a strain that’s available on the Internet, as H2N2 was before this scare…
Guarding against bioterrorism is a job of the Department of Homeland Security. The department’s Web site trumpets the $7 billion being spent on monitoring major cities for biological releases and on stockpiling smallpox vaccine and anthrax antibiotics. These are good steps to take to combat overt renegades, but what about those who would use the system against us? That’s a proven M.O…
Mankind must not be allowed to destroy itself by creating a pandemic, either by accident or deliberate action. From the Aiken (S.C.) Standard May 3, 2005
The runaway bride is back home, and the talk of the nation is about the woman who got Duluth, Ga., into an uproar.
Jennifer Wilbanks will live in infamy as the lady who couldn’t face her impending wedding, and instead fled west…
While it is not illegal to call off a wedding, it is illegal to claim that one was abducted. Wilbanks claimed just that, but dropped the sham shortly after telling fiancé John Mason that she had been kidnapped.
It is understandable that a person can panic at the thought of a wedding with 600 guests and 14 bridesmaids…
We don’t believe that Wilbanks is a criminal, and prosecuting her would be of little value to society. But she should be billed for the hours that Georgia authorities spent looking for her as well as the time and effort of the officials in Albuquerque, N.M., where she finally stopped her running.
But the biggest debt she owes is to those who cared for her most. Friends and relatives have a right to be upset with someone who is so consumed by her own feelings that she is completely oblivious to the pain and angst she would bring to others.
- Provided by the Associated Press
