US controls bird flu vaccines over bioweapon fears
October 11, 2008 By ROBIN McDOWELL , Associated Press Writer
In this June 5, 2008 file photo, chickens look out of their pen in a downtown neighborhood in Jakarta, Indonesia. When Indonesia's health minister stopped sending bird flu viruses to a research laboratory in the U.S. out of fear Washington could use them to make biological weapons, Defense Secretary Robert Gates laughed and called it "the nuttiest thing" he\'d ever heard. Yet buried deep inside an 86-page supplement to U.S. export regulations is a single sentence barring U.S. exports of vaccines for avian bird flu for the same reason. (AP Photo/Irwin Fedriansyiah, File)
(AP) -- When Indonesia's health minister stopped sending bird flu viruses to a research laboratory in the U.S. for fear Washington could use them to make biological weapons, Defense Secretary Robert Gates laughed and called it "the nuttiest thing" he'd ever heard.
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Ablee - Oct 12, 2008
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Was not the anthrax traced back to being a U.S. governmental Military strain? "Robert Gates laughed and called it "the nuttiest thing" he'd ever heard" or was it.- report abuse
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WillB - Oct 13, 2008
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it was- report abuse
