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Board on Life Sciences of the U.S. National Academies announces new biosecurity website

(The National Academies) The Board on Life Sciences of the U.S. National Academies is pleased to announce the creation of a new website on biosecurity. The site brings together information and resources from across the National Academies on biosecurity, biodefense, relevant aspects of public health, and discussions of the relationship between science and security. Along  Read More »

Secret Briefing Helped Sway H5N1 Flu Papers Decision

(Science AAAS) A classified briefing from U.S. intelligence officials helped persuade a majority of members of a government advisory board that the benefits of publishing two controversial H5N1 avian influenza studies outweighed the risks, according to testimony presented yesterday at a U.S. Senate hearing. The late March briefing to the National Science Advisory Board for  Read More »

Dutch Government OK’s Publication of H5N1 Study

(Science AAAS) AMSTERDAM—The Dutch government has given virologist Ron Fouchier of Erasmus MC an export license for his controversial H5N1 transmissibility study, allowing Fouchier to send a revised manuscript of his paper to Science. The license “is in my inbox,” says Fouchier. “Now we can move on.” The decision by Henk Bleker, minister for agriculture  Read More »

The Netherlands grants export license for mutant flu work

(Nature.com) The Dutch government has agreed to grant an export license to allow Ron Fouchier, a virologist at the Erasmus Medical University in Rotterdam, to publish his work on H5N1 avian influenza in Science. Fouchier’s paper is one of two reporting the creation of forms of the H5N1 virus capable of spreading between mammals. The  Read More »

Flu Research Moratorium Should Continue, Fauci Says

(Science Now) Although the contention over whether to publish two controversial H5N1 avian influenza studies appears to be waning, researchers should continue to abide by a voluntary moratorium on certain types of studies involving the virus, a senior U.S. science official said today. There should be “an extension on the moratorium,” which was originally supposed  Read More »

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