Biopreparat Biopreparat, the entity in charge of the Soviet biological weapons program, was established in 1973 under the Main Microbiological Industry Agency, a year after the Soviet Union signed the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. By the 1980s the State Concern Biopreparat became responsible for the bulk of of biotechnological production in the Soviet Union, and Biopreparat continues to oversee most development and production of biotechnology in Russia. Biopreparat, a civilian pharmaceutical and vaccine company that served as a cover for biological weapons work, consisted of some forty research-and-production facilities, including a dozen major complexes. The staff was more or less evenly divided between development of new weapons and work on cures and antidotes. At its peak, the former Soviet Union had the world's largest biological warfare program, with somewhere between 25,000 and 32,000 people employed in a network of 20 to 30 military and civilian laboratories and research institutions. An additional 10,000 or so worked in Defense Ministry bioweapons laboratories. According to other estimates, at least 47 labs and test facilities were scattered across Russia, employing more than 40,000 workers, 9,000 of whom were scientists. Betwen 1,000 to 2,000 of those scientists were experts on deadly pathogens. Biopreparat suffered dramatic downsizing after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, with more than half its scientific staff departing, many of whom left Russia for more sophisticated laboratories of the West. In 1989, the first defector to emerge from Biopreparat, Vladimir Pasechnik, revealed that the Soviet biological warfare effort was ten times larger than estimated by US or British intelligence. And in 1992 Dr. Kanatjan Alibekov (Ken Alibek) defected, providing new details of Moscow's extensive biological warfare development program. Other defectors, whose identities have not been disclosed, have provided additional information to Western intelligence agencies. Hotwater
What about this: "but we know the Soviet Union as late as the early 1990s were involved in the research, development, and production of biological weapons." :toetap05:
it seems to me like they are trying to boost numbers. has anyone noticed you never see or hear a straight foward statistical death count ? http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/hospitalreporting.htm *off topic* how do you post a sig ? [yes noob question]
Why do you people think "they" are so interested in you that they would track you.. and who is they? Obama? its like any other vaccine .. I know some people are against vaccines, but if you get swine flu dont be stupid just get the fucking shot.
No, do not just "get the fucking shot" look into what is actually in what you are letting someone inject into you. If you do some real research into the subject and insist, then so be it. I will not be taking doses of poison. Obama has declared it a national emergency now
I'd rather take my chances with the flu than get the vaccine. I haven't taken a shot in years, and I don't plan to start now.
this seems to be the best source for numbers http://www.ask.com/bar?q=swine+flu+statistics&page=1&qsrc=178&ab=5&title=Swine+Flu+Count+-+Worldwide+statistics+of+the+H1N1+Influenza+A&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flucount.org%2F&sg=ex4yC0Rph7GTc%2F0Av6HUDB83mbPPwk1FgDup%2BclVS70%3D&tsp=1256274315812