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Outcomes Related to the 7th Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention Review …

(US Department of State) And these will include such topics as biosafety, biosecurity, preparedness, surveillance, response, and crisis management. Now, so the specifics are not covered in the final document, but of course the United States has a well established set of …

Experts Question Call to Withhold Flu Research

(Global Security Newswire) A U.S. expert panel’s apparently successful bid to halt the publication of key information from recent flu studies could pave the way for further stifling of scientific discourse, a number of virology specialists said on Wednesday, Dec. 21). The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity on Tuesday called for the journals Science  Read More »

Biomedical experiments and public safety

(NPR – The Diane Rehm Show) Two leading scientific journals have been asked not to publish details of research into the deadly bird flu virus. The research involved creating a highly transmissible version of H5N1. The scientists hope to gain valuable data that could lead to a vaccine. But the National Science Advisory Board for  Read More »

Should Scientific Journals Describe How Researchers Made a Killer Flu?

(TIME) H5N1 avian flu rarely infects humans, but it is deadly when it does. Since the virus first emerged in humans in Hong Kong in 1997, nearly 600 people have been infected worldwide and almost 60% have died. The virus isn’t very transmissible, but scientists have long worried that it might mutate, perhaps through reassortment  Read More »

Fears grow over lab-bred flu

(Nature.com) Some researchers argue that work on a new strain of avian flu should be conducted only in labs with the highest biosafety precautions. It is a nightmare scenario: a human pandemic caused by the accidental release of a man-made form of the lethal avian …

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