Canadian scientist arrested for smuggling ebola virus into U.S.

The story obviously is false.

Who put it together?

“THE CANADA.COM NETWORK
Canwest Global Communications Corp. is Canada's largest media company. In addition to owning the Global Television Network, Canwest is Canada's largest publisher of paid English language daily newspapers and owns, operates and/or holds substantial interests in conventional television, out-of-home advertising, specialty cable channels, web sites and radio stations and networks in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Turkey, Indonesia, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States."

Now why might such a nice big company resort to using a deceptive headline?

http://businessmanagement.suite101.com/article.cfm/canwest_communications_may_fi...

“Canwest Communications is facing a series of April deadlines to deal with its heavy debt. If it fails, the company could seek bankruptcy protection.

The entire industry is affected by declining advertising revenues. Canwest Communications is also affected by debt from the purchase of Hollinger International, and Alliance Atlantis which included specialty channels like: HGTV, and Mystery.

April is a month of deadlines for Canwest. The company has until April 7th to make a re-financing deal with senior lenders. By April 14th, it must make a $30.4 million interest payment or else creditors can demand repayment of $761 million. Experts say if creditors demand the money it would destroy the company, and it could result in a claim for bankruptcy protection. Fairfax Financial Holdings owns part of the company, and there’s a possibility they could come up with a plan to save Canwest."

CanWest is a very vocal supporter of Canada's Conservative Government, and already there is talk that the Conservatives will bail out their ideological amigo, should no one else be willing. Such good friends.

Does the fact that the man wasnt wearing any biological protective gear say anything,unless this was a breaking and entering situation,the man would be wearing at the least a mask and gloves, IF he was transporting a deadly pathogen....especially if hes a doctor/scientist ! a terrorist dont do much good unless they reach there target.sharpen thy pencil cops and quit wasting my money please....there are people starving

So there were no pathogens? Big Deal! The guy obviously was trying to scare people, and should be tossed into prison- at least for criminal stupidity. Regardless, the guy sounds like he needs some psychiatric help......

Off with his head I say.

Ok so the word pathogen comes from pathos witch is latin for disease and genesis which is creation. Therefore, pathogen means "it can make you sick." In research, oftentimes, nonpathogenic versions of the virus are used for obvious health and safety reasons. These vials were nonpathogenic Ebola so it was the same species just an inactivated form.

Hope you're following. Anyway, This guy could be an idiot and wanted to score some from work for a friend who was doing a project on the side for example. Who knows yet. But I wouldn't jump to any averted pandemic conclusions just yet.

The stuff has no pathogens? Someone explain that one to me plz.

Better throw dozens of millions for a vaccine NOW!!! Are y'all starting to see exactly how this works? How do we explain this to all the feeble minds out there?

It sounds like the guy just took some things nobody would miss from his old job to use at his new job. Might as well have been a stapler or something...

Change the headline, it's completely wrong. The vials were used in Ebola research, they didn't actually have Ebola in them at the time.

Depending on whether Plummer's claim that the virus he brought in contained no infectious pathogens is accurate or inaccurate... it can entirely change the story.

Nice attempt of trying to raise the pandemic paranoia, because Ebola is really no joke.

So this guy was busted for "smuggling" glassware into the US. I would like to know why they used the word "smuggle". Were the vials diliberately hidden somewhere in his auto or were they sitting in the back seat in plain view.

If they were deliberately hidden, then I would say it was a good bust. However, if they were sitting in plain view then the guy is probably just a clueless moron.

This headline and story have been intentionally edited to be alarming. The actual story includes the words, "Dr. Frank Plummer, scientific director general of the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, said the vials did not contain any infectious pathogens. At no time was the health of citizens of Canada or the U.S. at risk, as the seized materials are known to be non-infectious," he said.

This is why the poster has used a link to the video instead of the text. The post should be corrected or deleted as misleading.

"Dr. Frank Plummer, scientific director general of the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, said the vials did not contain any infectious pathogens."

um...

Scary. Very scary. And the fact that Canada's public health agency didn't even know the vials were missing is unacceptable. Wow.

The vials contained no pathogens. Your title for this article is fiction.

Whats the worst that could happen?!

Whew ! Glad they got caught . Good job RCMP .

Konan " The Destroyer"Yoa more like it, huh?