http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120502143852.htm
The author of this article, obviously supports the spread of the information obtained by researchers and further research done one the H5N1 virus.
Viruses spread from animals to humans all the time, but they are not always dangerous. For the past 15 years researchers have been studying a bird flu virus called the H5N1. Not known at the time but this virus could be even more deadly than the H1N1 virus with more than 50% of the people who caught it dying. Though not many people have caught it so far, researchers indicate that only a few more mutations of the virus are needed to make it wide spread among humans. At first people were trying to hide this information, but it was released to the general public in May.
The fact that people tried to hide this from the general public and stop research on it is a huge shock to me. Now that people can see how bad this virus can be if it mutates they can prepare and other scientists can also do research. With other scientists doing research they could find a vaccine, or prevent it from mutating as quickly. Many different groups of scientists working on it definitely beats just one private group.
This virus is definitely something to watch out for in the coming years.
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