Bird Flu Experiments Proposed

[microrobert]

Bird Flu Experiments Proposed

In a bid to avoid the controversy that dogged H5N1 research last year, flu researchers have published a letter proposing how to approach potentially dangerous research on H7N9.

A group of 22 prominent influenza researchers have today (August 7) published a letter in both Nature and Science, stressing the need for a new wave of controversial studies on the H7N9 bird flu virus—so-called “gain-of-function” experiments that deliberately engineer mutant viruses to identify mutations that would make naturally occurring strains more transmissible or virulent in mammals.

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articl...ents-Proposed/

[Mason8]

As if the virus need help to form more resistant species...it's a basic principle of microbiology that this will happen naturally anyway.it would serve a dual purpose, selling vaccines, and depopulation for those places that dont get the vaccines.