DRTA... Now subby, why would you want to 'weaponize' the vaccine? Sounds like something an evil do gooder would do.

whargarbl

We're gonna cure the shiat out of you!

Madagascar closes its ports?

FTFA "The law prohibits the U.S. from exporting vaccines to countries that are considered state sponsors of terror unless they apply for special export licenses."

What the hell? Indonesia is not a state sponsor of terror.

xuanzhiyouxuan: FTFA "The law prohibits the U.S. from exporting vaccines to countries that are considered state sponsors of terror unless they apply for special export licenses."

What the hell? Indonesia is not a state sponsor of terror.

They have mooslems

I'VE GOT AN AIDS VACCINE AND I'M NOT AFRAID TO USE IT. GIMME THE BEST YOU GOT, MOTHERF*CKERS!!!!

if Smbc-comics had a search feature, I'd post the picture of the weaponized smallpox. Which was basically a can of smallpox with a knife attached.

Is indonesia really on the list of state sponsors of terrorism?

maracle: Is indonesia really on the list of state sponsors of terrorism?

No, and their brand of islam is just about as moderate as can be. Refusing to send vaccines is retarded.

Weaponizing an avian flu vaccine.

Well farking throw me in the briar patch, Brer USAMRIID. Damn the luck, I lived.

Weaponizing the bird flu vaccine would be hard..... weaponizing bird flu might be a bit easier.

The sad thing is that I wasn't shocked that our government would do this. I'm pretty sure if someone wanted to get a hold of some bird flu they would have no problem getting it by swabbing a chicken's ass. There would be no reason to try to get the vaccine and then spending countless years trying to weaponize the extremely weakened form in the vaccine.

God Damn It, If you keep encroaching on my territory I WILL vaccinate you!

YOU WANT THE VACCINATION! YOU CAN"T HANDLE THE VACCINATION!

maracle: Is indonesia really on the list of state sponsors of terrorism?

According to the State Department the State Sponsors of Terrorism are Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria. Notice we're not fighting the Terrurists by taking out any of those countries.

/Cuba? SRSLY?
//they pay someone to steal all our old Chevy parts or something?

soupergenyus: The sad thing is that I wasn't shocked that our government would do this. I'm pretty sure if someone wanted to get a hold of some bird flu they would have no problem getting it by swabbing a chicken's ass. There would be no reason to try to get the vaccine and then spending countless years trying to weaponize the extremely weakened form in the vaccine.

FTF Myself

drjekel_mrhyde: xuanzhiyouxuan: FTFA "The law prohibits the U.S. from exporting vaccines to countries that are considered state sponsors of terror unless they apply for special export licenses."

What the hell? Indonesia is not a state sponsor of terror.

They have mooslems

and trannies

helsdottir: they pay someone to steal all our old Chevy parts or something?

Have you heard? GM and Chrysler are considering a merger, really.

A Chargero!

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hitler was a hardcore liberal: and trannies

I pictured this followed by, "... and believe you me, I know from experience!"

NUMB3RS Season Finale last spring.

Have you heard the word about the Bird?

Evil Overlord: "Now my evil scheme has come to fruition: I finally have the bird flu vaccine that I need to create a weapon capable of vaccinating ALL OF AMERICA! MUHAHAHA!"

But seriously, don't they realize that considering Indonesia needs a vaccine to combat avian flu, they already have a lot of avian flu around in order to justify it? If Indonesian Super-Terrorist Scientists were working on a way to infect Americans with bird flu, they're already better equipped than Americans are.

xuanzhiyouxuan: No, and their brand of islam is just about as moderate as can be. Refusing to send vaccines is retarded.

This. I lived in Indonesia for about 8 months several years ago-- they're very laid-back Muslims. And on the island of Bali, which is the main tourist attraction, the dominant religion is Hinduism. At least, it was when I was in Indonesia.

Besides, considering how many chickens I remember seeing in Jakarta, that wandered around freely-- a pretty high-population city-- it's even dumber to NOT provide the vaccine.

Hmm, my sentence got garbled. Anyway, my point was Jakarta's a high-pop city with a lot of free-range chickens. No vaccine for that place would be pretty stupid.

Because if there is a bird flu outbreak in Indonesia, that will have no serious consequences for the US at all. None what so ever. Nope. It certainly won't make an outbreak in the US any more likely, because Indonesia is on a different planet, and no-one ever travels between Indonesia and the US.

Idiots.

These are probably the same "experts" that believe in global warming.

/That's gotta be at least a 9/10 right?

So why would the Bush administration want to further push Indonesia into the arms of fundamentalist wackos?

The bottom line to this is that once the US knows the "actual" H5N1 avian flu strain and clade type, in six months of surge production, it will be able to make 30 million vaccination doses.

Or enough for 1 in 10 Americans. In six months. This means that 9 out of 10 Americans will have to do without any vaccine, even though an epidemic is killing millions of Americans. And 10 out of 10 Americans will have to do without for at least a few months.

So let me tell you how very little sympathy I have for Indonesia not getting any American made vaccine.

But don't be angry with America, because the Indonesians aren't going to get any English, French, German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Israeli, Canadian, or any other vaccine either. Because they will be just as short, or shorter, than the Americans.

Welcome to america, where we don't listen to experts because "god told us to,"

/farking country
//farking waist of time...

damiangerous: Submitter fail.
This has nothing to do with the US not sending vaccines to Indonesia. It actually came about because Indonesia refused to send bird flu samples to the US claiming a fear that the viruses could be weaponized. When the US Sec of State called that idea crazy, it was pointed out that the US has a similar law restricted the export of vaccines to countries on the state sponsors of terrorism list (not Indonesia).
A much better article (new window).

LOL, I like it. Our politicians still have some balls left, I guess.

Actually, it makes sense. Don't help the bad guys protect their own population from a potential bioweapon.

It doesn't make sense in the case of bird flu, though.

Loren: Actually, it makes sense.

You must mean something in the article, since the headline is meaningless.

/You can't not have what you don't not want!

Loren: Actually, it makes sense. Don't help the bad guys protect their own population from a potential bioweapon.

It doesn't make sense in the case of bird flu, though.

And it doesn't make sense in the case of Indonesia.