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there's probably a book how world health organization
is in the one on one hand and i don't know
is given consent to a mutant bird flu this is an interesting uh... story and
the eighty-five and one flu viruses now becoming a concern though is
and
i guess the concern that the death of his our pictures aria
the concern is that it would become transmissible between humans so far it
is only think communicated from animals to humans
so this is this incredible there were two different research teams that were
doing research on as they do with a research team doing research on h five n
one
and they were able to create
mutations of it
which are transmissible among humans and this information was released and then
it immediately there was a lot of criticism saying wait a second
does it make sense to even release that information because now you're letting
people know potential buyer terrorists that this can be done
and you kind of
in a couple of the articles giving a lot of information about what is needed to
to create these mutations
that are transmissible between humans does it make sense the sensor
science in this particular case
for the greater good and of course it opens up all of the free speech in
police states had questions
that are constantly being discussed
but what do you think louis because is that what we can all i know that we've
been able to create
human to human transmission will versions
and we were just talking about the responsibility of the researchers here
it's not like if they withhold this information and
from the general public that they're lying or that they're being pissy
foreigners anything which is going on interest disclosure right it is but the
question is what do we gain from that and i would putting at risk that the
possible and that's what this is uh...
or to write the infirmary nested in our collapse or enough
so do you agreed that should be kept quiet so that those who might want to
use
some kind of the mutation like this to create an academic won't
duets
yes i think this information should be shared with the people who need to know
about it and who can
uh... act on it
uh... value-added the quiet you create some kind of non disclosure agreement
confidentiality
just medical research that's being done
i don't think you have to
over you really have to do any of that i mean that
i mean i guess you might have to have to mediate get their hands on it at the
question earlier how do you prevent media from putting out the h five n one
strain of uh... avian influenza has proven fatal in sixty percent of human
cases so far
uh... it's only three hundred and fifty people who have died
because uh... it's it's not yet transmitted between that's exactly why
indonesia has been the worst hit country well i'd like to know is now that
they've engineered this mutation are they going to use that to develop a
vaccine or would that would be to logical
i'm sure it's in the works romance
i'm sure that's the goal of the research arthur caplan who's the director of the
center for bioethics at upenn
says that this is the case
you really strip
not have this information made public because the price of truth
is too high to let scientists disclose these these findings publicly so he says
that at the scientific level
they should be kept private and not even released it should just be considered a
proprietary private medical research than we are in agreement
however
many would argue why why do scientists whitey scientists get a hold these
secrets if these are instances of consequence to to humans why why did why
don't we have a right to know that this could become
human to human transmission will because that's been created
uh... i'm sure once it uh... once it reaches that level
we will now when when people know that they need to stay away from people who
have
this disease
i'm sure the information will be public but at the moment
what does anyone can do with this information it's useless to most people
alright so there is a list of
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