Rethinking Biosafety in Research on Potential Pandemic Pathogens

ABSTRACT If accidentally released, mammalian-transmissible influenza A/H5N1 viruses could pose a greater threat to public health than possibly any other infectious agent currently under study in laboratories, because of such viruses’ likely combination of transmissibility and virulence to humans. We...

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Main Authors: Marc Lipsitch, Barry R. Bloom
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2012
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/eccfdb19f5c74798b8fa0aa55691eb8a
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