REFERENCE: Fouchier et al. “Pause on avian flu transmission studies.” Nature (2012)
LINK directly to published letter
As I
discussed in my American Society for Cell Biology Meeting post, I don’t want to
repeat work that has already been discussed outside of the initial scientific
publication, however this topic is interesting, especially considering the
letter was signed by 39 authors and published in both Nature and Science
magazines.
Work
being performed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Erasmus MC in the
Netherlands has suspended important research on a highly transmittable
influenza virus due to fears of viral escape from their laboratories. They have imposed a 60 day “pause” on their
work while the scientific community and the community at large have time to
discuss some of the new issues this type of research presents.
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