GREED rather than jihad might have led to a potentially nasty virus being unleashed in the US. On Monday two former executives of Maine Biological Laboratories in Winslow, Maine, pleaded not guilty to conspiracy and mail fraud charges linked to smuggling a bird flu virus into the US. Other employees also face charges.
The company allegedly agreed to secretly produce a bird flu vaccine for a Saudi Arabian poultry producer that did not want to buy vaccine openly, as this would have revealed the presence of the disease and obliged it to destroy its flocks. The virus allegedly smuggled into…
