GlaxoSmithKline Released 45 Liters of Live Polio Virus

ferespo sends this news out of Belgium: As reported to ECDC by Belgian authorities, on 2 September 2014, following a human error, 45 liters of concentrated live polio virus solution were released into the environment by the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline in Rixensart city, Belgium. The liquid was conducted directly to a water-treatment plant (Rosieres) and released after treatment in river Lasne affluent of river Dyle which is affluent of the Escaut/Scheldt river. Belgium's High Council of Public Health conducted a risk assessment that concluded that the risk of infection for the population exposed to the contaminated water is extremely low due to the high level of dilution and the high vaccination coverage (95%) in Belgium.

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These viral samples need to come with their own...

[Karmashock]

... palace guard. Some sort of possibly armed unit that literally controls who has the virus from one moment to the next.

That sounds extreme but consider what the virus can do and what it could mean. The scientists clearly aren't taking their responsibilities seriously here. Every month we get another report of another fuck up with some horrible plague.

Here someone will say they don't like my idea for some reason... fine... then you have a solution that works as well or better. I'm not married to my idea. I just want this crap to stop happening yesterday.