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Two-Day WHO Meeting On Bird Flu To Release Statement As Soon As Possible, WHO Official Says
Researchers of H5N1 bird flu virus "are set to wrap up a two-day meeting on the issue Friday with international experts at the World Health Organization in Geneva" with the aim of settling controversy over the work of two research teams that created genetically altered viral strains that are easily transmissible among ferrets, a laboratory model for humans, the Associated Press reports (Mason, 2/17). "The meeting may reach some consensus on a few immediate issues, such as what parts of the studies should be published, and who might qualify for access to the full papers on a 'need-to-know' basis," according to the Nature News Blog (Butler, 2/16).
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