Scientists and security specialists are in the midst of a fierce debate over recent experiments on a strain of bird flu virus that made it more contagious.
The big question: Should the results be made public?
Critics say doing so could potentially reveal how to make powerful new bioweapons.
The H5N1 virus has been circulating among birds and other animals in recent years. It's also infected about 500 people. More than half died. But this dangerous virus has not caused widespread human disease because, so far, sick people haven't been very contagious.
TVNL Comment: This is probably a man made flu in the first place. Why do we allow this kind of experiment to take place? Why do we permit labs to create any virus? What if they can not contain what they create? These people create these viruses for two reasons...population control, and the pharmaceutical industry profits. One one hand they want to reduce the population. And on the other hand they want to make a lot of money from the living population via expensive and dangerous vaccines.
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