Studies of deadly H5N1 bird flu mutations test scientific ethics
Tuesday, December 27, 2011 - 00:30
in Health & Medicine
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 In an unprecedented move, a U.S. board asks that some details of the research not be published.In a top-security lab in the Netherlands, scientists guard specimens of a super-killer influenza that slays half of those it infects and spreads easily from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.
