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Biosecurity panel chief voices mixed reaction to WHO meeting

(CIDRAP News) The chair of the US biosecurity advisory board that recommended withholding details of two studies on H5N1 virus transmissibility today expressed a mixed reaction to last week’s international meeting in which scientists and officials involved in the controversy called for eventually publishing the full studies. Paul S. Keim, PhD, chair of the National  Read More »

Flu meeting opts for openness

(Nature.com) Upgrading the biosafety level for studies on mutant avian influenza could put a stranglehold on the work. After weeks of debate, two controversial papers describing forms of the H5N1 avian influenza virus capable of transmitting between mammals should …

For now, bird flu papers won’t be published

(Washington Post) GENEVA — Two studies showing how scientists mutated the H5N1 bird flu virus into a form that could cause a deadly human pandemic will be published only after experts fully assess the risks, the World Health Organization said Friday.

Despite Safety Worries, Work on Deadly Flu to Be Released

(New York Times) The full details of recent experiments that made a deadly flu virus more contagious will be published, probably within a few months, despite recommendations by the United States that some information be kept secret for fear that terrorists could use it to start epidemics.

Avian flu controversy comes to roost at WHO

(Nature News Blog) Almost two dozen experts kicked off a two-day international meeting this morning at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, in a bid to find ways to move forward in the controversy over two studies that have created strains of the H5N1 avian flu virus that are transmissible in ferrets. The meeting  Read More »

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