by Jon Fleetwood,Jon Fleetwood:
Gain-of-function experiment drove H5N1 toward mammalian-adaptation mutations.
NIH-funded scientists say they have conducted bird flu experiments in which they infected mammals with highly pathogenic and lethal H5N1, and during those experiments the virus populations inside the animals shifted toward mutations known to enhance viral replication, virulence, and transmission in mammals.
The study was published last week inNature Communications.
One of the study’s authors,Dr. Jeffery Taubenberger, currently serves as Director of NIAID and is a named inventor on a federally patented bird flu vaccine platform, placing him in the position of helping conduct experiments on pandemic-capable H5N1 while holding intellectual property tied to the vaccine designed to counter it.
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The study was funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under contract75N93021C00016.
It involved infecting mice with deadly doses of H5N1 influenza virus and analyzing how the purported virus replicated and evolved inside mammalian hosts.
The infections proved fatal in untreated animals:
“Control (untreated) mice… all succumbed to infection between 5- and 8-days post-inoculation.”
Source: SGT Report
