Studies of deadly H5N1 bird flu mutations test scientific ethics

Category: Science

Publish Date: 12-26-2011 10:21 PM -0800

Dutch scientists have created a version of the deadly H5N1 bird flu that's easily transmitted. In an unprecedented move, a U.S. board asks that some details of the research not be published.

In a top-security lab in the Netherlands, scientists guard specimens of a super-killer influenza that slays half of those it infects and spreads easily from victim to victim.

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