New York, - The team of scientists who developed the virus more deadly bird flu has delayed the study because of fears the virus could be used by terrorists.In an announcement published in scientific journals, Science and Nature, the team requested that held an international forum to discuss the risks and usefulness of their research.
"More research is needed to determine how influenza viruses in nature to the threat of a pandemic in humans," wrote the statement quoted by the BBC.
The delay will last for 60 days while awaiting discussion.
Reports say the debate over research among others, will take place in meeting the World Health Organization, WHO, next February.
Last month the United States authorities requested that the report's authors do editing on the details of the study to be published.
The reason is a concern if the data was later used by the terrorists.
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Two international scientific journals are now planning to publish a report - in the form of an edited - and establish cooperation with the U.S. government to ensure that data can only be accessed by 'the scientists in charge'.
Or H5N1 bird flu virus can cause death if the infection to humans, but its impact is relatively limited so far because it is not easy to transmit from human to human.
However, the combined team of researchers from Erasmus University, The Netherlands, and University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States, changed its derivatives and found that the virus becomes more easily transmitted among ferrets, are classified as mammals.
They conducted research on the grounds that the knowledge that a lot more about infectious virus before it mutates in nature is useful for public health.
After all biological security experts fear the virus that has been modified to trigger an outbreak is more virulent than the Spanish flu in 1918-1919, which killed up to 40 million lives worldwide.
