Sentence examples for flu research from inspiring English sources
The study does raise "a lot of unanswered questions," study researcher Aeron Hurt of the World Health Organization's center for flu research in Melbourne, Australia, said in a statement.
For the moment, most researchers are honoring a voluntary moratorium on this line of flu research.
Researchers have ended a nearly yearlong voluntary moratorium on H5N1 bird flu research.
Many scientists at least agree with the WHO's call for an urgent review of the safety and security surrounding mutant flu research.
One difficulty facing bird flu research is that surveillance picks up only a tiny fraction of the millions of viruses at large in the world.
But the World Health Organization differed, saying in February that the flu research should be published in full, because benefits to public health outweighed the theoretical risks.
Future bird-flu research could help scientists learn how it is transmitted through the air, why it makes the leap from animal to man, and how specifically it binds to human cell receptors.
Since December, however, when the Advisory Board recommended postponing publication of the bird-flu research, and some of his colleagues called for stopping it entirely, he has felt, he says, like the focus of "an international witch hunt".
However, other leading scientists vehemently denounced the decision on the grounds that it would be more dangerous to proceed with the research than to continue with the moratorium, claiming that there has been little discussion of the decision outside the flu-research community.
Leading scientists have condemned a decision by flu researchers to continue their controversial research into the deadly H5N1 bird-flu virus, which has already led to the creation of a mutated form of avian flu that can spread easily between mammals – including humans.
A scientist at the University of Wisconsin known for his edgy influenza research, Yoshihiro Kawaoka, developed the H1N1 flu virus strain — also known as the swine flu — to evade immune protection, which humans tend to develop as a virus persists in nature.
