Deadly H5N1 Flu Studies To Stay Secret... For Now

Posted by Soulskill on Friday February 17, 2012 @10:16AM from the those-birds-are-not-trustworthy dept.

Edsj writes "A spokesman for the World Health Organization announced that an agreement had been reached, after a debate, to keep details secret of the controversial work about the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian flu virus until deeper risk analyses have been carried out. The scientists who made the study, led by Ron Fouchier, still want to release the full paper at some future date for public viewing, but for the time being, the NSABB got what it wanted." The moratorium will be extended "probably for several months."

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Wikipedia says by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-17 10:22 · Score: 4, Informative

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_A_virus_subtype_H5N1
On October 10, 2011 the WHO announced a total of 566 human cases which resulted in the deaths of 332 people since 2003
So it kills about 58% of the people it infects