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Should scientists/researchers study and research strains of viruses that can kill half of humanity?
For which purpose and why? Will this benefit, or harm humanity? What would be the virus' purpose?
A virus with the potential to kill up to half the worldâs population has been made in a lab. Now academics and bioterrorism experts are arguing over whether to publish the recipe, and whether the research should have been done in the first place.
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http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/01/flu-researcher-ron-fouchier-its.html
Image: Avian influenza virus, TEM (NIBSC/Science Photo Library)
http://www.nature.com/news/second-mutant-flu-paper-published-1.10875
http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/15udpj/man_made_superflu_could_kill_half_humanity/
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