Detail Jail-Bird Flu: Scientific Freedom and Security   Oleh:  [s.n] Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 403 no. 8782 (Apr. 2012), page 73. Topik: Medical Ethics; Medical Research; Avian Flu; Freedom of Information Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE29.71 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel Ron Fouchier, of the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, is the lead author of a controversial paper which lays out how deadly H5N1 avian influenza, or bird flu, can be made deadlier still. He believes this information should be widely disseminated, so that biologists can work on drugs or vaccines to combat the new strain--which Dr Fouchier and his team created by combining five flu mutations that are currently (and separately) circulating in the wild. Others, however, disagree. The authorities in the Netherlands are pondering stopping the paper's publication because of fears its findings could be misused by hostile governments or terrorists. The contentious paper looks at how the new form of influenza passes between ferrets. Since, as flu goes, ferrets are good proxies for humans, and because H5N1 kills roughly half the people it infects--a mortality rate several times that of the "Spanish flu" that is reckoned to have claimed as many as 100m lives in 1918 and 1919--Dr Fouchier's work has touched a nerve. It emerged in December that the authorities in the United States had recommended withholding from general publication the detailed results and methods of the study, as well as those of a second one led by Yoshihiro Kawaoka, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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