Newly engineered highly transmissible H5N1 strain ignites controversy
Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 18:00
in Health & Medicine
Scientists have engineered a new strain of H5N1 (commonly known as bird flu) to be readily transmitted between humans. Two perspectives being published early online in Annals of Internal Medicine, the flagship journal of the American College of Physicians, raise concerns about if and how this research should be continued, and how the data should be shared for the benefit of public health.