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Invitation to a Dialogue: Research and Its Risks

(New York Times) There is great debate in the scientific and public health community about what should be done regarding recent experiments in which scientists mutated H5N1 bird flu strains so that they could spread readily between ferrets.

A Central Researcher in the H5N1 Flu Debate Breaks His Silence

(AAAS) In the heated debate about two labs that engineered a variant of the deadly H5N1 avian flu virus that for the first time easily transmits between mammals, one critical voice has been missing: Yoshihiro Kawaoka. But today, Kawaoka speaks his mind in a Nature commentary and in a detailed response to questions from ScienceInsider.  Read More »

A New Moratorium on Research Into Engineered Avian Flu: What It Means for Science

(Popular Science) In an unusual move, an international coalition of flu researchers agreed last week to a hiatus on work surrounding a highly contagious, mammal-adapted version of the avian influenza virus. Research on transmissible H5N1 flu will halt, and two manuscripts describing how to modify the virus won’t be published, at least not yet.

Bird flu mutation studies must go on, says scientist

(Reuters) A scientist researching a potentially highly lethal airborne version of the H5N1 bird flu virus said on Wednesday he must be allowed to pursue his studies if deadly pandemics are to be prevented.

Congresswoman Jenkins Sends President Obama Letter on NBAF

(Press Release) Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins released the following statement after sending the attached letter to President Obama asking for his continued support of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) in Manhattan, Kansas: “Both the Bush and Obama administrations have made it exceedingly clear that the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) is essential to  Read More »

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