Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Genetically engineered viruses, distributed from the air by government officials!

Don’t be alarmed, it’s just the Department of Agriculture’s multi-state oral rabies vaccine program. Targeted to raccoons, foxes and coyotes, it involves spreading bait (fishmeal or dog food) containing hidden vaccine packets. The vaccine is a live recombinant vaccinia virus with a gene encoding rabies glycoprotein.

This MMWR report details the second human case of vaccinia infection from contact with vaccine bait. In both human cases, contact occurred after a dog got into the bait and punctured the vaccine packet. This particular case was pretty scary, given that the infected person was immunocompromised from treatment of inflammatory bowel disease.

A photo of the rash, from the MMWR report:
By -
Labels: ,

No comments:

Post a Comment

Thanks for submitting your comment to the Controversies blog. To reduce spam, all comments will be reviewed by the blog moderator prior to publishing. However, all legitimate comments will be published, whether they agree with or oppose the content of the post.

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

OSHA! OSHA! OSHA!

  In many parts of the country, as rates of COVID-19 are declining and vaccination coverage is increasing (albeit with substantial variati...