U.S. Advisers Explain Request to Censor Bird Flu Research TUESDAY, Jan. 31 (HealthDay News) -- Concerns that research into a genetically mutated form of bird flu could escape from labs or fall into the hands of bioterrorists led U.S. scientific advisers to ask two prominent journals to withhold key details of the groundbreaking research, the advisers explained Tuesday. [News Source]

Biosecurity advisers who barred bird flu studies publication outline reasons Bird flu studies at the centre of a heated controversy pose a potential risk to public health of an "unusually high magnitude," the U.S. biosecurity experts who have advised against full publication of the studies said Tuesday. [News Source]

Feds defend request to keep bird flu research details secret A UW-Madison scientist's altered bird flu virus could mutate in dangerous ways if unleashed in nature, according to a statement Tuesday from the head of a government advisory board that earlier said sensitive details of the study shouldn't be published. [News Source]

Campus Connection: Biosecurity advisory board — ‘Life sciences have reached crossroads' A committee that advises the federal government on biosecurity issues recommended last month that the details of two experiments on the H5N1, or avian, influenza -- including research conducted by UW-Madison bird flu expert Yoshihiro Kawaoka -- not be made public due to fears that terrorists could use the information to create a bioweapon. [News Source]

Panel: Grave threat from mutant bird flu studies A potentially deadlier form of the bird flu virus poses one of the gravest known threats to humans and justifies an unprecedented call to censor the research that produced it, a top U.S. biosecurity official said on Tuesday. [News Source]

Westborough swans die of avian flu; no human risk State and federal wildlife officials say four of the 12 swans found dead at a Westborough pond recently have tested positive for avian influenza, but stress that there is no threat to humans. [News Source]

U.S. Advisers Explain Call to Censor Bird Flu Research TUESDAY, Jan. 31 (HealthDay News) -- Concerns that research about a genetically mutated form of bird flu could escape from labs or fall into the hands of bioterrorists led U.S. scientific advisers to ask two prominent journals to withhold key details on the groundbreaking research, the advisers explained Tuesday. [News Source]

U.S. panel defends call to censor bird flu studies CHICAGO (Reuters) - A potentially deadlier form of the bird flu virus poses one of the gravest known threats to humans and justifies an unprecedented call to censor the research that produced it, a top U.S. biosecurity official said on Tuesday. The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) set off a furious debate in the scientific and public health communities in December when it ... [News Source]

Bird flu research censorship backed by U.S. panel Details of experiments to create a potentially more dangerous version of the H5N1 bird flu virus should be censored, a U.S. science advisory board says. [News Source]

US panel defends call to censor bird flu studies A potentially deadlier form of the bird flu virus poses one of the gravest known threats to humans and justifies an unprecedented call to censor the research that produced it, a top U.S. biosecurity official said  [News Source]

Bird flu research censorship backed by U.S. panel Details of experiments to create a potentially more dangerous version of the H5N1 bird flu virus should be censored, a U.S. science advisory board says. [News Source]

Panel defends call to censor bird flu studies CHICAGO (Reuters) - A potentially deadlier form of the bird flu virus poses one of the gravest known threats to humans and justifies an unprecedented call to censor the research that produced it, a top U.S. biosecurity official said on Tuesday. The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) set off a furious debate in the scientific and public health communities in December when it ... [News Source]