Category: Bird Flu GMO

It does sound frightening. H5N1 or the bird flu virus is just five are some other small number of mutations away from being a readily-transmitted human disease that can kill quickly and for which there is no good cure. That's a recipe for pandemic and it ought not be handed out on the street. But another argument has carried the day - even more frightening is the prospect of a global health system with few tools to respond should nature's own meanderingly dangerous evolutionary habits perform the same trick as genetic engineers can now imagine. Many and perhaps most tracker readers are at least generally familiar with long arguments over open publication of research on genetically-modified bird flu. The collective decision was yes...