Detail A Deadly Balance; Flu Research and Biological Warfare   Oleh:  [s.n] Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 401 no. 8765 (Dec. 2011), page 59-60. Topik: Pandemics; Medical Research; Biological & Chemical weapons; Avian Flu Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE29.69 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel It is impossible for scientists to understand influenza or create vaccines without at least some risk. The question, then, is what level of risk is acceptable. On December 20th the American authorities said they had asked the world's leading scientific journals to withhold research on the matter. The request, to Science (an American publication) and Nature (a British one), is unusual. But so is the research in question. Two separate teams, led by Yoshihiro Kawaoka at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Ron Fouchier at Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, have tinkered with H5N1, otherwise known as bird flu. The resulting strains are dramatically more dangerous. H5N1's toll would certainly have been greater than hundreds had it not been for an important limitation: unlike its Spanish sister it is not easily transmitted to humans, or between them. But if the virus ever evolved to hop nimbly from person to person it too could wreak a pandemic. That evolution has now occurred, helped by the researchers in Madison and Rotterdam. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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