UPDATED at Bottom
BSL-4 Lab Worker - Photo Credit –USAMRIID
My thanks to Helen Branswell (@CP_Branswell) for tweeting a notice about a brief article appearing via The Canadian Press Online Edition this afternoon, indicating that the World Health Organization is offering to play a role in detangling the complex issues surrounding bird flu research.
As probably everybody knows by now, the recent successes in the laboratory in turning the H5N1 virus into a more transmissible virus have raised alarms among many of those in the bio-security field.
At the same time, many scientists are decrying attempts to halt, or censor this type of research.
For background on all of this, I would refer you to The Furor Over H5N1 Research Continues.
Details on how all of this will play out are scant at this hour, but I’m certain we’ll be hearing more about this story in the very near future.
The Canadian Press - ONLINE EDITION
WHO will take a role in solving issued raised by bird flu studies controversy
By: The Canadian Press
Posted: 01/15/2012 12:46 PM
UPDATED: Helen Branswell has a longer, more in-depth article on these developments which you can now read at :
WHO will help resolve bird flu studies controversy
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