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• Newly Engineered Highly Transmissible H5N1 Strain Ignites Controversy About Balancing Scientific Discovery And Public Safety

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 686
  Scientists have engineered a new strain of H5N1 (commonly known as bird flu) to be readily transmitted between humans. Two perspectives being published early online in Annals of Internal Medicine, the flagship journal of the American College of Physicians, raise concerns about if and how this research should be ...
  1 day ago

• Decision Of Researchers To Temporarily Halt Research On H5N1 Applauded By Georgetown Professor

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 686
  A Georgetown University Medical Center professor says the voluntary action taken by two research teams to temporarily halt work involving the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 is "laudable." In the researchers statement, published by Science and Nature, the authors stated that they "recognize that we and the rest ...
  3 days ago

• Culling continues in avian flu-hit district of Meghalaya

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 534
  Shillong, Jan 13 (IANS) Authorities have begun mopping up and sanitisation operations in bird flu-hit Williamnagar in western Meghalaya as they continued culling domesticated fowls there, an official said Friday.“We have started mopping up and sanitisation operation on the Williamnagar farm - the epicentre of H5N1 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Federal government approved security at UW bird flu lab – JSOnline

  
  Welcome to the Mind of a Writer — Authority: 94
  While most who follow bird flu reports are aware of the current work taking place in the Netherlands, many are unaware of the scary research going on here in the US. The University of Wisconsin is a case in point. Note that the security approved for the lab is BSL3 (biosafety level 3). Perhaps I’m [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Killer bird flu? What’s behind the controversy over bird flu research – chicagotribune.com

  
  Welcome to the Mind of a Writer — Authority: 94
  In my 2005 thriller ‘Armageddon Strain’, scientists combined the current form of H5N1 with ebola to form a ruthless killer. Though my book is fiction, it’s rooted in reality. With this in mind, I suggest reading this excellent article about the recent study of a modified H5N1 virus with a 60% lethal rate: Killer ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hong Kong Keeps Ban on Some Chinese Poultry Imports After Flu Link Found

  
  InvestmentWatch: Emerging markets, Real Estate, Personal finance, Business management, Politics, Economics — Authority: 148
  From Bloomberg: Poultry imports from the part of southern China where a man died from the H5N1 virus remain banned in Hong Kong after genetic tests linked the man’s strain of the disease to the version found in wild birds in the city. The import of live, chilled and frozen poultry, and eggs, from within a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Worst virus EVER!!

  
  ViroBlogy — Authority: 97
  Sigh…looks like we’re still all going to die…Science’s comment section has the following article from November 23: Scientists Brace for Media Storm Around Controversial Flu Studies My comment to the article: “”This work should never have been done,” says Richard Ebright.” Really? We shouldn’t ...
  3 weeks ago

• Man-made superflu – not really a good idea. Part 2…

  
  Ron's Rants... — Authority: 109
  A little while ago I wrote about the stupidity of manipulating the H5N1 bird flu virus to make person-to-person transmission easy. The following, from the BBC News website confirms just how right I was to feel that way:- Research fears Meanwhile, the World Health Organization has expressed deep concern ...
  4 weeks ago

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