Detail Influenza and its Complications: Flu Research and Public Safety   Oleh:  [s.n] Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 402 no. 8769 (Jan. 2012), page 69-70. Topik: Avian Flu; Disease Transmission; Censorship; International Relations Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE29.70 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel In December the scientific world was taken aback by an odd request. The American government, in the shape of the country's National Scientific Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB), called on the world's two leading scientific journals to censor research. Nature and Science were about to publish studies by researchers who had been tinkering with H5N1 influenza, better known as bird flu, to produce a strain that might be able to pass through the air between people. The NSABB fretted that were the precise methods and detailed genetic data to fall into the wrong hands, the consequences would be too awful to contemplate. They suggested that only the broad conclusions be made public; the specifics could be sent to vetted scientists only. H5N1 is undoubtedly dangerous. Some 60% of the 570 recorded human cases have been fatal (though non-fatal ones are less likely to be recorded). On January 20th, therefore, the research teams' leaders, Ron Fouchier of the Erasmus Medical Centre, in Rotterdam, and Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, bowed to public pressure. In a joint statement published in both Nature and Science, which was also signed by 37 other leading flu experts, they announced a voluntary 60-day moratorium on all similar research. The aim of this self-imposed suspension, they explained, was to give organizations and governments time "to find the best solutions for opportunities and challenges that stem from the work." Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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