Kobe University lab creates ‘novel’ H5N1 in ‘secret’ lab –Emails from Kobe virologist and H5N1-H1N1 virus creator, Teridah Ernala Ginting —Story in e-mails: Kobe University PhD student Teridah Ernala confesses to creating H1N1-H5N1 “novel” viruses; Kawaoka’s virus thief Akiko Makino lies to Indonesian authorities to avoid arrest for attempted smuggling of H5N1 out of Indonesia, gives authorities another university as research facility she works for By Robert S. Finnegan 05 Jan 2012 This young Indonesian “scientist” through the years of our contact revealed to me the inner-workings of her “secret” lab at Kobe University and a new BSL-4 in Tokyo that was working on H5N1 and H1N1 viruses, among others. Kobe University does NOT officially have a BSL-4 lab, and yet this microbiologist was assigned by her professor Yoshihiro Kawaoka to work on recombinant H5N1 and H1N1 in a “secret” (her words) lab at their facility.