Bird flu experts meeting in Geneva have ruled that controversial research on a mutant form of the virus potentially capable of being spread among humans should be made public.
Security assessments must however be carried out first before the two studies can be published and the research can continue, scientists agreed at a two-day meeting at the WHO.
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