'Too late' to contain research into deadly bird flu strain, warn scientists
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Two scientific journals have come under pressure not to publish findings of research on the mutant strains of H5N1 over fears that terrorists could use the information to create bioweapons.
However, scientists claim that the plea from the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) comes too late because details of the research have already been shared among flu experts.
“This horse is out of the barn,” Professor Richard Ebright, a molecular
biologist and biodefence expert at
Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey, told the journal Nature.
Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey, told the journal Nature.
“At this point, it is utterly futile to be discussing restricting the publication of this information.”
He added: "The work should have been reviewed at the national or international level before being performed, and should have been restricted at a national or international level before being performed.”
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