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Thursday, February 16, 2012
Shots - Health News
The 'WHO's Who' Of Virologists Meet To Talk Bird Flu In Geneva
February 16, 2012 The highly-anticipated gathering of flu experts has been described as a fact-finding session that will focus on understanding how bird flu studies done at Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands and at the University of Wisconsin were performed and overseen by the relevant authorities.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
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Scientists Debate How To Conduct Bird Flu Research
February 15, 2012 Scientists working with bird flu recently called a 60-day halt on some controversial experiments. The unusual move has been compared to a famous moratorium on genetic engineering in the 1970s. Key scientists involved in that pause on genetic research disagree on whether today's furor over bird flu is history repeating itself.
