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Puzzle presence of avian influenza virus (H5N1) is contagious between humans
revealed.
A scientist reveals the first time about how to create a hybrid of bird flu virus.
The virus is easily spread through coughing and sneezing.
The work of these scientists are considered too dangerous to be published.
In a presentation that was broadcast live to the public, scientist Yoshihiro Kawaoka explains in detail how his team created a variant of the deadly bird flu virus.
Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States, describes experiments that demonstrate the four genetic mutations.
The mutation allows the virus to spread between adjacent-ferret in the cage.
"Weasel-weasel is the best model of how the bird flu virus infection can spread among humans," Kawaoka said as quoted by the Guardian.
December last year, the United States Advisory Council biosecurity or U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) asked the research Kawaoka removed from the British science journal, Nature.
They worry that countries or rogue elements will use the information to create biological weapons.
NSABB voiced similar concerns on the work of Ron Fouchier of Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Fouchier study, which describes the presence of a mutant strain of bird flu virus that can be spread through the air inter-weasel, being considered entered in the journal Science, USA.
Controversy over studies that assessed the bird flu virus has triggered a crisis in the radical science.
Many researchers argue Kawaoka and Fouchier research should be opened fully to the public interest that the information available to other experts in the field.
But some other researchers say the study should not have been done, at least sensitive part of the research should be shared only with the experts agreed.
Bird flu is considered very threatening humans because more than half the 600 people affected by the virus have died from the infection.
Many scientists fear the bird flu virus transmission between humans trigger a pandemic if it develops into a form that spreads quickly.
Kawaoka and Fouchier research is designed to answer the question whether the bird flu virus could undergo a genetic mutation in the wild.
The mutation does allow rapid adaptation to human and spreads like seasonal flu.
Speaking in a Royal Society conference on bird flu, Kawaoka and Fouchier claimed their research highlights the bird flu virus easily mutates into a form transmissible between humans potential.
But their findings suggest a mutant strain of bird flu virus does not spread as fast as seasonal flu and not deadly to animals exposed to infection of animals in adjacent cages.
"The world does not need to be too concerned because the virus can still be controlled with antivirals, such as Tamiflu and bird flu vaccines," says Kawaoka.
A scientist reveals the first time about how to create a hybrid of bird flu virus.
The virus is easily spread through coughing and sneezing.
The work of these scientists are considered too dangerous to be published.
In a presentation that was broadcast live to the public, scientist Yoshihiro Kawaoka explains in detail how his team created a variant of the deadly bird flu virus.
Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States, describes experiments that demonstrate the four genetic mutations.
The mutation allows the virus to spread between adjacent-ferret in the cage.
"Weasel-weasel is the best model of how the bird flu virus infection can spread among humans," Kawaoka said as quoted by the Guardian.
December last year, the United States Advisory Council biosecurity or U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) asked the research Kawaoka removed from the British science journal, Nature.
They worry that countries or rogue elements will use the information to create biological weapons.
NSABB voiced similar concerns on the work of Ron Fouchier of Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Fouchier study, which describes the presence of a mutant strain of bird flu virus that can be spread through the air inter-weasel, being considered entered in the journal Science, USA.
Controversy over studies that assessed the bird flu virus has triggered a crisis in the radical science.
Many researchers argue Kawaoka and Fouchier research should be opened fully to the public interest that the information available to other experts in the field.
But some other researchers say the study should not have been done, at least sensitive part of the research should be shared only with the experts agreed.
Bird flu is considered very threatening humans because more than half the 600 people affected by the virus have died from the infection.
Many scientists fear the bird flu virus transmission between humans trigger a pandemic if it develops into a form that spreads quickly.
Kawaoka and Fouchier research is designed to answer the question whether the bird flu virus could undergo a genetic mutation in the wild.
The mutation does allow rapid adaptation to human and spreads like seasonal flu.
Speaking in a Royal Society conference on bird flu, Kawaoka and Fouchier claimed their research highlights the bird flu virus easily mutates into a form transmissible between humans potential.
But their findings suggest a mutant strain of bird flu virus does not spread as fast as seasonal flu and not deadly to animals exposed to infection of animals in adjacent cages.
"The world does not need to be too concerned because the virus can still be controlled with antivirals, such as Tamiflu and bird flu vaccines," says Kawaoka.
