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Also, Baxter is the only flu vaccine manufacturer to work with wild type flu viruses, felt to be
more dangerous than the altered and attenuated (weakened) viruses other manufacturers use.

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The Austrian police have launched an investigation into the incident that almost triggered a global
pandemic. The mixture of the deadly H5N1 virus with a mix of H3N2 seasonal flu viruses is
classified as one of the most deadly bioweapons in the world with a mortality rate of 63 per cent.

So, with the Baxter incident in Austria, there is proof that Baxter not only created flu material
with help from WHO, but also distributed them in large quantities to trigger a pandemic, while
also positioning themselves to produce the vaccine allegedly to "protect" against the virus they
created and released.

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In criminal charges filed against Baxter on April 8 , 2009 at the Vienna City Prosecutor’s office,
Landesgerichtstr 11, 1080 Vienna, Austria, it was alleged that Baxter unlawfully, wilfully and
knowingly, in the period between December 2008 and February 2009, employed manipulative and
deceptive devices and contrivances in violation of national and international laws on the
manufacturing, possession, release and dissemination of biological weapons of mass destruction
and on organised crime, to manufacture and distribute a biological agent that is classified as a
bioweapon among the population in order to profit from the pandemic.

First, Baxter manufactured influenza material contaminated with a bird flu virus in its biomedical
research laboratories in Orth on the Danube in December 2008.

Baxter uses BSL 3 (Biosafety Level 3) precautions in its laboratories, a system for the safe-
handling of toxic substances, which makes an accidental contamination of ordinary flu material
with the dangerous bird flu virus virtually impossible.

The 72 kilograms of contaminated vaccine material contained a mixture of a seasonal H3N2
human influenza virus and the deadly bird flu H5N1 virus. By adding a virus of the type H5N1 to
an ordinary flu virus of the type H3N2, The H5N1 virus is restricted in its human-to-human
transmissibility, especially because it is less airborne. However, when it is combined with seasonal
flu viruses, which are airborne and easily spread, a new bioweapon is created.

Second, Baxter distributed via Avir this contaminated vaccines using false concealment and a
false label to 16 laboratories in Austria and in other countries at the end of January/beginning of
February, potentially infecting at least 36-37 laboratory staff, who had had to be treated
preventively for bird flu and ordinary flu in hospital.

A total of 18 laboratory staff belonging to Avir had to undergo preventative treatment for the bird
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flu and ordinary flu at the Otto Wagner Hospital in Vienna on February, 9 , 2009, because of their
exposure as part of their work to the highly pathogenic bird flu virus.