Bird flu: Research row as US raises terror fears

[dbt]

Source: BBC

The authors of two controversial bird flu studies have reportedly agreed to a US request to redact key details after a government advisory panel suggested the data could be used by terrorists.

The papers show how a bird flu variant can pass easily between ferrets.

Editors at the journals Science and Nature say they will not agree to the redactions until they are assured the data will be accessible to researchers.

A spokesman for US health authorities said such a system was being prepared.


Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16279365

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Much more at the link, including the fact that bird flu is not transmissible between humans. I thin it is worth noting that the virus was altered so as to pass easily among ferrets.

[arikara]

1. It makes you wonder why they allow the scientists to play around

with making diseases more lethal. There was hushed up controversy around the big flu terror last year, live virus and the pharmaceutical company that was making vaccine too. Bastards.