Cbo.org.uk http://www.cbo.org.uk Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:27:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Bird flu research set for publication http://www.cbo.org.uk/bird-flu-research-set-for-publication/ http://www.cbo.org.uk/bird-flu-research-set-for-publication/#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:27:09 +0000 admin http://www.cbo.org.uk/?p=31 The academic studies, which show that mutated forms of the H5N1 virus could infect ferrets in aerosol form, provide the strongest suggestion yet that it could also be transmitted between humans.Fears over the deadly potential of the virus led the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) to declare the work too dangerous to publish last year, and to recommend the papers be heavily censored before appearing in print.
In particular the revised paper clarifies that none of the ferrets which contracted the virus in its aerosol form had died – a fact which he admitted was not explicitly clear in the original version.Prof Paul Kein, chair of the NSABB, said that additional information from a confidential source about the possible risks and benefits of releasing the data had sparked the reversal of opinion.
H5N1 is mainly confined to birds but is often fatal when contracted by humans, and a variant which was transmissible from person to person via coughs and sneezes could prove catastrophic.

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