01.27.2012 08:04
Rizki Gunawan
Liputan6.com, New York: Bird flu more dangerous and frightening world community. To that end, the World Health Organization (WHO) said it will hold an international conference next month to address concerns that bird flu research can be used by terrorists.
Not long ago, several people died from the disease this influeza type. On Sunday (22 / 1), a Chinese citizen was killed infected with bird flu. In addition, a toddler named Nazril Ilham died in Jakarta, Tuesday (24 / 1), which allegedly also caused by bird flu.
Ironically, the recent U.S. scientists even conduct research to develop this virus becomes more dangerous. They're trying to develop this virus becomes more easily infected. Bird flu virus was originally transmitted from birds to birds to humans or the like, will be developed transmission from mammal to mammal. Which certainly can be transmitted from human to human.
Following up on this, the U.S. government asked the scientists to delay the research. U.S. worried about the results of such research will be misused by terrorists, which of course would also endanger the world's population. The U.S. also asked to keep these studies from outside parties.
The team of scientists immediately discontinue the study. [Read: Fear of Terrorism, Bird Flu Virus Research Postponed ]. Last Friday, 39 scientists involved in this research announced temporary suspension of their studies.
As reported in the pages of NHK, to address these concerns, the World Health Organization (WHO) plans to hold an international conference. Pull Jasarevic WHO spokesman said the conference will be held on 16 February for 2 days.
He added that this conference will focus on finding solutions and discuss ways to deal with biotech research is likely to be misused by terrorists. (MEL)
1 comment:
16th of February... that seems like a long ways out, considering the rate of appearance of new cases. Seems like discussions of pandemic contingency plans for nuclear power plants might be getting dusted off by that time. There is mention of "ironic" US studies of transmissible H5, which did yield some disturbing results that nobody wanted to hear. But to automatically to try to slap American fingerprints on whatever train wreck that humanity may be in for this very winter would be the greatest irony of all, as the effects of past plagues on consumer and labor markets (dispassionate speculation for which I apologize) is in the interests of no such country. The geographic advantage of the New World continents enjoyed as the virus remains chiefly a bird pathogen will disappear with the advent of any tropism toward airborne human transmission.
I feel badly about some earlier comments I made toward certain international leaders earlier as I admit I have never been in charge of lives and livelihoods as the people I criticized are, and I am sorry.
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