Scientist reveals how he created bird flu that could spread between people!
LONDON, England (PNN) - April 3, 2012 - A scientist whose work was deemed too dangerous to publish by Fascist Police States of Amerika (FPSA) biosecurity advisers revealed for the first time on Tuesday how he created a hybrid bird flu virus that is spread easily by coughs and sneezes.
In a conference presentation that was webcast live to the public, he has detailed how his team created the deadly virus.
Prof. Yoshihiro Kawaoka at the University of Wisconsin-Madison described experiments that pinpointed four genetic mutations enabling the virus to spread between ferrets kept in neighboring cages. The animals are considered the best models of how the infection might spread between people.
In December, the FPSA National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) called for key sections of Kawaoka’s work to be deleted from a paper in press at the British science journal Nature, amid fears that a rogue state or bioterrorist group might use the information to create a biological weapon.
The NSABB raised similar concerns over a paper by Dr. Ron Fouchier at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam. That study, describing another mutant bird flu strain that can also be spread through the air between ferrets, is under consideration at the FPSA journal Science.
The controversy over the papers triggered a rare crisis in science. Many researchers argued the work must be made fully public so it is available to other experts in the field, such as surveillance teams looking for emergent pandemic strains in Asia and elsewhere. Others said the work should never have been done, or that sensitive details should be shared only with a list of approved experts.
The advisory board reversed its stance on Friday after considering updated versions of the papers and a fresh risk analysis of the studies at a meeting at the National Institutes of Health in Washington D.C. The board unanimously approved Kawaoka’s paper for publication in full, and gave the green light to Fouchier’s work after a vote of 12 to 6 in favor. Neither paper had information removed for the review.
