Bird-Flu Research to Start Again After New Safety Rules
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After a yearlong halt based on safety concerns, research will resume on forms of the H5N1 bird-flu virus that scientists made easily transmissible within some mammals, and could potentially be a threat to humans.
Researchers should restart their projects in countries where governments have approved appropriate biosecurity measures, according to a letter signed by 40 researchers and published by the journals Science and Nature. This doesn’t currently include the U.S., the scientists wrote.