FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Tuesday, February 28, 2012
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2012-02-28

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DIARY ENTRY — Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Source: Diary Prequel, pp. 278–279 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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Ron Fouchier flew in from Rotterdam to be on a panel tomorrow AM
(Feb. 29) organized by American Society of Microbiology (ASM) to discuss this issue.
Invited Ron over my house for dinner (rigatoni and sausage with tomato sauce) with Cliff
Lane and Hugh Auchincloss to discuss the approach for tomorrow. Ron related to me
that the NSABB never gave him a chance to explain his experiments and that he met
them via teleconference. Clearly they were hostile to him and when his interview was
over, Mike Osterholm started speaking before Ron signed off and Mike said (without
knowing that Ron was still on the line) that Ron was a “liar”. Ron stayed on the line in

secret and described what sounded like a major ad hominem to Ron. After intense
discussion with me before and during the dinner, Ron Finally got it that he has to be very
clear tomorrow that the ferrets who got infected by aerosol transmission did not get very
ill (flu-like sxs at worst), all recovered and NONE died. Only animals who got 1 million
infectious doses of H5N1 directly inserted into the trachea died. It is clear that everyone
NSABB, all the pundits who commented (Laurie Garret, Tom Ingelsby, Richard Ebright,
D.A. Henderson, etc.) and the press thought that after aerosol transmission, the ferrets
died. We had long discussions about future experiments and upcoming issues. Later in
the dinner, Bruce Alberts (Editor of Science) flew in from San Francisco, called my cell
phone to let me know he arrived, and I invited him over for the remainder of the dinner.