By MARK HUME There needs to be an international body involving scientists and security experts to provide advice on how to share, and when to hold back, the publication of research that could aide terrorists, says Bruce Alberts, editor-in-chief of Science magazine. Dr. Alberts, whose journal has been delaying publication of a paper on a laboratory-created […]
Bird Flu Research to Stay on Hold as Papers to Be Published
By Simeon Bennett Feb. 17 (Bloomberg) — Bird flu experts meeting in Geneva agreed to allow the publication of two studies that alarmed U.S. security officials by showing how to make the deadly H5N1 virus easily transmissible. The publication of the papers will be delayed to allow a better explanation to the public of why […]
Critics: Airborne Flu Research Important, But Not for Vaccine Purposes
By Christine Hsu Controversial flu researchers have argued that their airborne H5N1 virus creation, able to spread in easily among mammals, would assist in the speedier creation of flu vaccines should a strain like the one created in the laboratory emerge in the future. However most experts that say that the government censored research is […]
U.S. Says Details Of Flu Experiments Should Stay Secret
By NELL GREENFIELDBOYCE A committee that advises the government says that details of two controversial experiments on bird flu virus should not be made public, because of fears that the work could provide a recipe for a bioweapon. The government-funded experiments were done by researchers who wanted to understand if bird flu virus might change in the […]
Don't Toss Stockpiled Avian Flu Vaccine
By Saint Louis University’s Center for Vaccine Development Vaccine that Doesn’t Match Today’s Bird Flu Can Be Valuable in Fighting a Potential Pandemic (HealthNewsDigest.com) – ST. LOUIS — A stockpiled vaccine designed to fight a strain of avian flu that circulated in 2004 can be combined with a vaccine that matches the current strain of […]
