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Biosecurity Board Recommends Full Publication of Bird Flu Studies

Posted by timothy on from the keeping-mum-about-the-zombies-though dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Two controversial scientific papers on a mutant form of the H5N1 avian flu virus should be published in uncensored form after a review determined there would be no immediate threat from releasing the data, a U.S. biosecurity panel said, revising its earlier decision."

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  1. The main news by mdsolar · · Score: 4, Interesting

    H5N1 will almost certainly become pandemic owing to mutations in the wild. The study showed that this is very likely. So, we know what to target in terms of vaccine development and with what urgency. It seems a lot of people missed this.