Posted on 05/30/2007 5:20:36 PM PDT by blam
Russia bans human tissue export in bioweapon alert
16:22 30 May 2007
NewScientist.com news service
Russia has banned the shipment of medical specimens abroad, threatening hundreds of patients and complicating drug trials by major companies, the national Kommersant newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Kommersant attributed the ban to fears in the secret service that Russian genetic material could be used abroad to make biochemical weapons targeting Russians. The quality daily cited anonymous sources in the medical community.
The ban, initiated by the Ministry of Health and carried out by the Federal Customs Service, began on 28 May. Shipment beyond Russia's borders of all biological material, including hair and blood, has been blocked.
"If this is true, it will hit us like a cannonball" due to the centre's reliance on processing of medical specimens abroad, Aleksei Maschan, director of the Central Children's Hospital, Moscow, told the newspaper.
Secret service warning
The ban may also complicate clinical trials by major pharmaceutical companies, including GlaxoSmithKline, which runs trials on tens of thousands of Russians.
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Insert obligatory Doctor Strangelove/precious bodily fluids joke here.
Wow. Talk about paranoia.
This seems bizarre. Maybe just a blackmail maneuver, fishing for higher payments. Hook the customers and then suddenly withhold the product. Sort of a biological version of their natural gas trick, especially if they have contracts they want to break.
Does this apply to the mail order brides, too?
I think there is a killing to be made in tinfoil right now. Any investors out there?
This explains why they have the bodies of every single Russian who dies anywhere in any western country immediately shipped back to the Motherland, sealed in a tamper-proof aluminum capsule.
True it can be diverse but I read an article some years ago that it was rumored that the USSR developed a way to target a DNA of certain types of people like it would effect asian and not negroid or that it can be fine tuned into a targeted select culture like anyone Native American with green eyes and it would act as a switch for a bioagent.
I am not surprised at all. Supposedly SARs was targeted at Taiwan.
If they are worried that someone will do this to them, it’s likely because use they are trying to do it so someone else themselves.
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