Voluntary 'pause' in controversial H5N1 virus research lauded
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
A month after the US government asked scientists to hold off publishing the details of their research describing a genetically-modified form of the H5N1 avian flu virus, which has been found to be highly transmissible in ferrets, over worries terrorists could use the information for harmful purposes, the researchers agreed to voluntarily "pause" their work for 60 days (scripintelligence, 21 December 2011).