SCIENTISTS CONJURE UP DOOMSDAY  FLU - NOW  DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH IT!
- NYT- The scientists who altered the deadly H5N1 virus to make it more contagious to humans have agreed to suspend their research for 60 days to give other international experts time to discuss the work and determine how it can proceed without putting the world at risk of a potentially catastrophic pandemic.A national bio security panel in the United States has already taken the unusual step of asking the scientists to keep part of their data secret to prevent others from reproducing their work. Scientists are split regarding the research, with some praising it as important and urging that it be published, and others saying the experiments are so dangerous that they should never have been done. The experiments involve a type of bird flu virus known as H5N1, which rarely infects people but is highly deadly when it does. The work, paid for by the National Institutes of Health, was done by two separate research teams, at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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