A controversial study of the H5N1 bird flu virus has been published today in the journal Nature. The study, and similar one that will be published in Science, sparked an international furor when it was accepted for publication, sparking concerns that the work, which included mutating H5N1 to be transmissible among mammals, could inspire bioterrorism. In the wild, bird flu is deadly, but does not spread easily between humans. In the published study, Yoshihiro Kawaoka and his colleagues at the ...
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