http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2101437/Editor-science-journal-says-ready-publish-details-lethal-man-flu-complete-form.html H5N1 bird flu virus kills half of humans that contract it Research into more contagious forms of virus Editor says ‘we have to publish in complete form’ Insists publication is essential to create vaccine By Damien Gayle Last updated at 1:14 AM on 19th February 2012 The World Health Organisation has said that research […]
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Details of secret experiments on deadly man-made bird flu that kills over half of the people it infects WILL get out, says bioterrorism watchdog
Feb 8
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2098128/Bird-flu-Details-deadly-H5N1-inevitably-leak-says-bioterrorism-expert.html The infrastructure to stop a pandemic is not there,’ says Professor Paul Keim By Ted Thornhill Last updated at 1:19 PM on 8th February 2012 Details of secret experiments by scientists who have created the most deadly form of bird flu in the lab will inevitably be leaked – potentially into the hands of […]
Controversial Killer Flu Research Paused
Jan 21
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/01/mutant-h5n1-moratorium/ By Brandon Keim January 20, 2012 | 3:36 pm | Researchers developing extra-contagious strains of H5N1 avian influenza have agreed to pause their work for 60 days. The moratorium, announced Jan. 20 in Nature and Science, is a response to public fear and alarm in the scientific community, which has split over whether the research […]
Bird-flu victim ‘had no direct contact with poultry’
Jan 1
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/birdflu-victim-had-no-direct-contact-with-poultry-6283803.html Alarm in China after bus driver dies, and, in nearby Hong Kong, 19,000 chickens have been slaughtered David Randall, Sunday 01 January 2012 A Chinese bus driver who tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu virus died yesterday, a week after being admitted to hospital with a fever. He was the country’s first reported […]
