Sentences with phrase «transmissible avian influenza viruses»
Ebright: Future work with lab - generated transmissible avian influenza viruses should be performed only at the highest biosafety level, only at the highest biosecurity standard, and only after approval by, and under the oversight of, a national or international review process that identifies risks and benefits, weighs risks and benefits, mitigates risks, and manages risks.
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Why would scientists deliberately create a form of the H5N1 avian influenza virus that is probably highly transmissible in humans?
In 2011, it became embroiled in heated debates about «gain - of - function» experiments with the deadly avian influenza virus H5N1 that made it more transmissible in mammals.
At the request of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, Science and Nature have agreed to strike key details from papers in press describing how researchers made the deadly H5N1 avian influenza virus more transmissible between mammals.
«To provide time for these discussions, we have agreed on a voluntary pause of 60 days on any research involving highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 viruses leading to the generation of viruses that are more transmissible in mammals.»
As a controversial study of the H5N1 avian influenza virus published online today in Science shows, researchers are keenly interested in how mutations in the virus» genes might enable it to become transmissible in humans.
He likens the virus to avian influenza, which humans can contract from birds but which is so poorly transmissible between people that it hasn't triggered an epidemic.