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U.S. Science Advisory Board Asks Science, Nature To Omit Data From Bird Flu Studies Amid Security Concerns
The U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity on "Tuesday asked two scientific journals to leave out data from research studies on a lab-made version of bird flu that could spread more easily to humans, fearing it could be used as a potential weapon," Reuters reports (Steenhuysen, 12/20). The board "recommended that the journals Science and Nature publish only the general discoveries, not the full blueprint for these man-made strains," the Associated Press notes (Neergaard, 12/20). "Editors at the journals ... say they will not agree to the redactions until they are assured the data will be accessible to researchers" according to BBC News (12/20).
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