U.S. Advisers Say It’s Now Safe to Publish Bird Flu Studies

SATURDAY, Mar 31 (HealthDay News) — Research on a mutated,
more foul form of a bird influenza virus can be published in full, U.S.
government biosecurity advisers pronounced Friday, notwithstanding initial concerns that
bioterrorists could use a information to start a pandemic.

The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity pronounced dual research
papers, that have been revised given they were initial offering for
publication late final year, have been reworked adequate so they no longer
contain sum that competence be of value to bioterrorists. The advisers’
recommendation now goes to a U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services for a decision, a Associated Press reported.

In December, a advisers endorsed opposite announcement of a papers
because doing so was potentially risky.

The dual studies during a core of a discuss were to be published in the
journals Science and Nature late final year. The papers,
which were ...