
World Health Organization experts have delayed a decision on whether controversial research into the H5N1 bird flu virus should be released. It had been looking at how the work could be released while guarding against its abuse by bioterrorists. But talks at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva decided more discussions were needed to [...]
A Chinese man, who was the first case of bird flu in the country in more than a year, has died in the southern city of Shenzhen, according to health officials. The 39-year-old bus driver was admitted to hospital with pneumonia but tested positive for the bird flu virus. The H5N1 bird flu strain has [...]
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Dutch researchers who developed a deadly strain of bird flu to help create vaccines have been told their research is a terrorist threat. Scientists have for the first time been able to mutate the H5N1 strain of avian influenza so that it can be transmitted easily through the air. Previously it was thought that H5N1 [...]