Influenza and its complications

摘要

In december the scientific world was taken aback by an odd request. The American government, in the shape of the country's National Scientific Advisory Board for Biosecurity (nsabb), called on the world's two leading scientific journals to censor research. Nature and Science were about to publish studies by researchers who had been tinkering with hsni influenza, better known as bird flu, to produce a strain that might be able to pass through the air between people.