Was it ‘crazy’ for this scientist to re-create a bird flu virus that killed 50 million people? - The Washington Post
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/06/12/good-idea-or-crazy-re-creating-a-bird-flu-virus-that-once-killed-50-
At the center of the international debate is a thin, intense-looking man named Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, who studies influenza virus and Ebola. On Wednesday, he and an international team of scientists published a study in Cell Host & Microbe that said they created a life-threatening virus that is only 3 percent different from the 1918 Spanish flu, which likely killed more people than the Black Death.
ça recommence (►http://blog.mondediplo.net/2011-12-09-De-tres-mechantes-bestioles-en-laboratoire), mais cette fois c’est les Américains
#recherche #virus #santé #guerre_bactériologique cc @anne
