Risks of resurrecting 1918 flu virus outweigh benefits (original) (raw)

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Sir

Your Special Report “The 1918 flu virus is resurrected” (Nature 437, 794–795; 2005), on the debate surrounding the recreation of the 1918 (Spanish) human influenza virus, focuses solely on the question of publication, giving little attention to the possibility of regulating potentially harmful experiments before they are started.

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1. Hamburg Centre of Biological Arms Control, Hamburg University, Falkenried 94, Hamburg, 20251, Germany
   Dr Jan van Aken

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van Aken, D. Risks of resurrecting 1918 flu virus outweigh benefits.Nature 439, 266 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/439266a

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• Published: 18 January 2006
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