The US government is unlikely to succeed in suppressing details of controversial experiments that have created highly infectious forms of the bird flu virus, experts have warned.
Two scientific journals have come under pressure not to publish findings of research on the mutant strains of H5N1 over fears that terrorists could use the information to create bioweapons.
However, scientists claim that the plea from the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) comes too late because details of the research have already been shared among flu experts.
“This horse is out of the barn,” Professor Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist and biodefence expert at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey, told the journal Nature.
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