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Dutch Government Grants Export License Allowing Publication Of Controversial H5N1 Study
"The Dutch government has agreed to grant an export license to allow Ron Fouchier, a virologist at the Erasmus Medical University in Rotterdam, to publish his work on H5N1 avian influenza in Science," Nature's "News Blog" reports (Owens, 4/27). "Fouchier had to get permission first from the Dutch Department of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation -- in line with E.U. regulations -- because a risk existed that the H5N1 virus, as well as its research, 'could be used for the wrong purposes,' the Dutch department said in a statement," according to Agence France-Presse (4/28).
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