Preventing pandemics: The fight over flu (H5N1 research)

Nature  
Volume 481 Number 7381 pp237-404  19 January 2012
http://www.nature.com/nature/current_issue.html

Preventing pandemics: The fight over flu
Nature 481, 257–259 (19 January 2012)
doi:10.1038/481257a
Published online 15 January 2012

A proposal to restrict the planned publication of research on a potentially deadly avian influenza virus is causing a furor. Ten experts suggest ways to proceed.

Ron Fouchier & AB Osterhaus: Globalize the discussion

John Steinbruner: A system for redacted papers

Kwok-Yung Yuen: The Hong Kong perspective

D. A. Henderson: The ultimate biological threat

Lynn Klotz & Ed Sylvester: Worry about lab infections

Jeffery K. Taubenberger: Study how viruses swap hosts

Richard H. Ebright: Mitigate the risks of release

David L. Heymann: We will always need vaccines