39 days ago by Ed Rybicki

Sigh…looks like we’re still all going to die…Science’s comment section has the following article from November 23: Scientists Brace for Media Storm Around Controversial Flu Studies My comment to the article: “”This work should never have been done,” says Richard Ebright.” Really? We shouldn’t know j ...

40 days ago by monotreme1000

Reports in Chinese language news sources indicate that Shenzhen health authorities have discovered a mutation in the H5N1 virus that recently killed a bus driver in that city. The nature of the mutation or its effects are unclear, but may make the virus more pathogenic and difficult to treat. The Ch ...

41 days ago by Affleap

Highlighting the fears of the bird flu H5N1, the World Health Organization (WHO) said, it was ‘deeply concerned’ about the danger of scientific information could fall into the wrong hands. The world health body was alarmed about the potential harm if the avian flu virus results of the research will ...

41 days ago by monotreme1000

Chen Xing, a 39 year old bus driver in the city of Shenzhen, Guandong Province, China, became ill on December 21, 2011. He was treated but did not improve ( NDTV). On December 25, 2011 he was hospitalised. On December 26, 2011 he was diagnosed with pneumonia. He died of multiple organ failure on Dec ...

42 days ago by Ron

A little while ago I wrote about the stupidity of manipulating the H5N1 bird flu virus to make person-to-person transmission easy. The following, from the BBC News website confirms just how right I was to feel that way:- Research fears Meanwhile, the World Health Organization has expressed deep conc ...

42 days ago by Graeme

TIERRA DEL FUEGO - Scientists are fearing that a new strain of avian flu, this time coming from penguins, could end up killing millions of innocent people in the next year. "There's no way we could develop a vaccine against this flu strain before it started infecting the masses," said Dr. Morton Bos ...

46 days ago by Harold

Jonathan Benson, Natural News 12/26/2011 After toying with the idea of blocking public access to critical information discovered as part of an experiment with H5N1 avian flu, the US government has now decided that certain details of this controversial research be withdrawn from two scientific journa ...

47 days ago by Richard J. Cohen

This past week the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity requested that scientists withhold publication on some of the detailed methods used for creating a form of the H5N1 avian flu virus that can be transmitted in an airborne form. According to news reports, scientists in the Netherla ...

50 days ago by admin

The Hong Kong supervision pronounced a passed bird found in New Territories tested certain for the H5N1 avian influenza virus, the second box in a week. View Full Post On ++ WSJ.com: Middle East Home ++

51 days ago by Philip Alcabes

Crof’s H5N1 blog is the place to watch for coverage of this week’s controversy over censorship of scientific findings. A few words here about the controversy and the rush to censor science. As Martin Enserink reports at Science Insider: Two groups of scientists who carried out highly controversial s ...