Potent Version of H1N1 Flu Created

A new version of the so-called swine flu virus has been engineered by a US-based Japanese scientist. The research on the 2009 H1N1 virus at a high-security lab at the University of Wisconsin, Madison has not yet been published, but was first made public July 1 by the Independent newspaper in London. The article described virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka, as "controversial" and said "some scientists who are aware of (the experiment) are horrified." Kawaoka ...