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H5N1: What kind of oversight is best for bird flu research?

(Los Angeles Times) The upshot of months of controversy over whether to publish research that used the H5N1 avian flu virus — experiments in which scientists engineered forms of the bug that could spread through the air to infect mammals — was that scientists got to publish their work in full in a special issue  Read More »

Long-Awaited Bird-Flu Study Shows It’s Still a Threat

(Global Security Newswire) WASHINGTON – Researchers published a batch of controversial studies on bird flu on Thursday, demonstrating that H5N1 is still dangerous to humanity and closing a chapter in a still-evolving debate over censoring scientific research. Commentaries questioned the wisdom of an unprecedented U.S. government request to delay the research, while experts debated whether  Read More »

Pretrial Conference Set For Georgia Militia Members in Ricin Plot

A pretrial meeting in the federal case against two Georgia men accused of plotting to develop a biological weapon is to be held next month, the Associated Press reported on Thursday (see GSN, May 9). The conference is to take place on July 11 in Gainesville, Ga. Samuel Crump, 68, and Ray Adams, 55, are  Read More »

DURC policy in flux in the wake of published H5N1 studies

(CIDRAP News) Though today’s publication of the second of two H5N1 transmissibility papers ends a waiting period, it doesn’t halt the uncertainty over what the 8 months of controversy means for future dual-use research of concern (DURC) and the status of a voluntary moratorium. Several experts addressed the topic in scientific journals today, including some  Read More »

Science: H5N1 Special Issue

(Science) The publication in this issue of the research paper airborne transmission of Influenza A/H5N1 Virus Between Ferrets, plus its newer companion The Potential for Respiratory Droplet–Transmissible A/H5N1 Influenza Virus to Evolve in a Mammalian Host, marks the end of more than 8 months of widely reported controversy over whether some of the data now  Read More »

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