Could the Flu Vaccine contamination have been terrorism?

[truthpusher]

Could it have been contaminated on purpose? Is ther any info on this? I could not find any.

[troublemaker]

1. No.

It's mundane sloppy manufacturing.

[madrchsod]

2. no

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

3. No just good old fashioned ineptitude

[whistle]

4. Yes, capitalistic terrorism, remember Chiron sent their people over....

...to England to try and get the labs to release the vaccines knowing they could hurt and perhaps kill people....<snip>


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Associated Press
Update 3: Chiron Investigated Over Flu Vaccine
10.12.2004, 03:32 PM

A federal grand jury is investigating Chiron Corp.'s failure to supply the nation with half the needed flu vaccine this year, the company said Tuesday in a regulatory filing.

The Emeryville-based company said it received a subpoena from the U.S. Attorney in New York, the same office that recently prosecuted Martha Stewart and former star investment banker Frank Quattrone in unrelated financial scandals.

The subpoena demanded documents and other information related to British regulators prohibiting Chiron from shipping about 48 million Fluvirin vaccine shots from its Liverpool plant because of contamination concerns, the company said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. Officials with Chiron and the U.S. Attorney's office declined comment.

<link> http://www.forbes.com/business/energy/feeds/ap/2004/10/12/ap1587209.html

[benburch]

5. If it had been...

It would have been used to deflect blame already.

[goforit]

6. Maybe totally arranged by cheney, eh?

[Cleita]

7. Our Executive Office gubmint ineptitude.

Maybe it's something like this:

"I mean there are so many things you have to deal with in a ten hour work week, and it's such hard work. There really isn't time to deal with something as silly as flu vaccines. I mean with the terror threat all the time, I made sure I got my vaccine. I don't understand why everyone else is complaining."

*smirk*