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Virus in one controversial H5N1 study wasn't lethal
Jan 25, 2012 (CIDRAP News) – Breaking a prolonged silence, the author of one of two controversial studies dealing with mutant H5N1 viruses said today that the virus his team created went airborne to spread among ferrets, but it didn't kill them.
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Battle over H5N1 research continues in media, journals
Jan 30, 2012 (CIDRAP News) – The battle over dissemination of controversial research on mutant H5N1 avian influenza viruses continued in a flurry of commentaries and media letters in recent days, covering the full range of issues from the potential public health benefits to scientific censorship and the risk of bioterrorist exploitation of the findings.
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Researchers Agree to Postpone Bird Flu Research
FRIDAY, Jan. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists agreed Friday to a 60-day moratorium on research into a modified avian flu virus that has been demonstrated to be more transmissible among mammals.
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WHO to lead talks on controversial H5N1 studies
Jan 17, 2012 (CIDRAP News) – A World Health Organization (WHO) official said the agency will play a role in leading discussions on issues related to controversial H5N1 avian influenza transmission studies, as more experts called for a further global discussion of the issues.
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Scientists Agree to Delay Controversial Bird Flu Research
FRIDAY, Jan. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists agreed Friday to a 60-day moratorium on controversial research into a modified avian flu virus that has been shown to be more transmissible among mammals.
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Bird flu research censorship backed by U.S. panel
Details of experiments to create a potentially more dangerous version of the H5N1 bird flu virus should be censored, a U.S. science advisory board says.
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Kiwi scientist urges halt to doomsday flu research
A South Island-born scientist is calling for permanent restrictions on research into bird flu after a US laboratory genetically engineered a strain of the virus that could kill half the world's population.
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WHO will take a role in solving issued raised by bird flu studies controversy
The World Health Organization says it will take a role in helping sort through an international scientific controversy over two bird flu studies that the U.S. government deemed too dangerous to publish in full.
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Mutant Bird Flu Researchers Offer to Suspend Work
Controversy surrounding research on highly transmissible bird flu has prompted scientists, including those who altered bird flu viruses so they could spread between mammals, to call for a 60-day hiatus on the work to allow for discussion.
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Biosecurity advisers who barred bird flu studies publication outline reasons
Bird flu studies at the centre of a heated controversy pose a potential risk to public health of an "unusually high magnitude," the U.S. biosecurity experts who have advised against full publication of the studies said Tuesday.
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