The risks to world health from research to make an extraordinarily lethal avian flu virus contagious in humans have finally caught everyone's attention after months of warnings from us and many other experts.
Jonathan D. Moreno | Posted 02.20.2012
Some of the hardest questions in the process of scientific discovery aren't about science, but philosophy. A good illustration of this is the unanimous recommendation by the NSABB that two leading journals not publish certain details about "bird flu."
The Huffington Post | Timothy Stenovec | Posted 11.29.2011
It sounds like the setup for a Hollywood thriller: scientists in a lab create a virus as contagious as the flu that kills half of those infected. We'r...
TIME Healthland | Bryan Walsh | Posted 05.25.2011
Hong Kong residents experienced an unwelcome blast from the past on Nov. 18. A 59-year-old woman in the city contracted H5N1 avian influenza -- the fi...
Edward J. Sylvester | Posted 04.20.2012