Killer bird flu? What's behind the controversy over bird flu research
Friday, January 13, 2012 - 16:00
in Health & Medicine
Last year, two teams of scientists reported that the virus could be made to spread easily from ferret to ferret — an animal that has long been used as a stand-in for people in influenza research. An H5N1 virus that could pass easily from person to person would be new and dangerous.