WHO on bird flu research: Publish in full… someday
A 22-member panel of experts convened by the World Health Organization has decided to extend a moratorium on research using laboratory-modified — and potentially dangerous — mulberry bags strains of the H5N1 influenza virus, also known as bird flu.
The decisions, which were announced at the close of a two-day meeting Friday by the Geneva-based, United Nations-affiliated health agency, follow intense months of debate among scientists and public health officials over the risks and benefits of publishing the two studies.
Ron Fouchier of the Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands and Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin in Madison both led teams that engineered new strains of H5N1 that were easily transmitted through the air between mammals. In the wild, bird flu does not pass easily between humans, but it kills nearly 60% of the people it infects- mulberry sale .
Bruce Alberts, the editor of Science, said in a press briefing at the annual meeting of the American Assn. for the Advancement of Science in Vancouver, Canada, that he was surprised that the meeting had resulted in a quick consensus. He said that his journal had planned to release a redacted version of Fouchier’s paper in mid-March.
“That’s not going happen” now, he said .
Bruce Alberts, the editor of Science, said in a press briefing at the annual meeting of the American Assn. for the Advancement of Science in Vancouver, Canada, that he was surprised that the meeting had resulted in a quick consensus. He said that his journal had planned to release a redacted version of Fouchier’s paper in mid-March.
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