person:yoshihiro kawaoka

▻http://www.initiativecitoyenne.be/article-des-virus-pandemiques-redoutables-continuent-d-etre-cree
Des chercheurs développent un virus incroyablement mortel

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Des chercheurs de l’université du Wisconsin ont développé un virus ultra contagieux en utilisant le principe de génétique inversée. Développé au sein du laboratoire du très controversé Yoshihiro Kawaoka, ce virus est composé de souches sauvages de la grippe aviaire qui ont été rendues volatiles, soit transmissibles par l’air. Ce qui le rend encore plus dangereux et contagieux. Des recherches qui subissent l’opprobre international au vu du danger qu’elles représentent pour l’humanité, mais qui ne cessent pas pour autant.

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

#H5N1 controversy: Studies must go on, says scientist
►http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/2012/01/h5n1-controversy-studies-must-go-on-says-scientist.html

Despite declaring last week a 60-day moratorium on the studies to allay security fears, Yoshihiro Kawaoka argued in a commentary in the journal Nature it was urgent and vital that his work continue. (...)
Last week, the two teams - Kawaoka’s and a second team led by Ron Fouchier at Erasmus Medical College in the Netherlands - said they would temporarily suspend their research because of the concerns. 
But writing in Nature on Wednesday, Kawaoka argued it would be “irresponsible” and dangerous not to continue researching highly pathogenic bird flu viruses.

#recherche

De « très méchantes bestioles » en laboratoire | Anne Poupon (Les blogs du Diplo)
►http://blog.mondediplo.net/2011-12-09-De-tres-mechantes-bestioles-en-laboratoire