{"id":1573,"date":"2013-01-04T12:53:52","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T00:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/?p=1573"},"modified":"2013-01-04T12:57:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T00:57:27","slug":"avian-influenza-h5n1-researchers-ready-as-moratorium-nears-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/avian-influenza-h5n1-researchers-ready-as-moratorium-nears-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Avian Influenza: H5N1 Researchers Ready as Moratorium Nears End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><\/em>\u00a0<em>&#8220;<\/em><strong>Just because we can does it mean we should?<em>&#8221; <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Researchers who study the H5N1 avian influenza virus will soon be able to do some science that&#8217;s been off-limits for nearly a year<\/em>.<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/files\/2013\/01\/avian-Flu-image-from-nature3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1586\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/files\/2013\/01\/avian-Flu-image-from-nature3-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This has sparked\u00a0 renewed debate on the dangers of developing a strain that\u00a0 can move between mammals.<br \/>\n<em>Fearing that such &#8220;gain-of-function&#8221; experiments could enable terrorists or a lab accident to start a deadly human pandemic, critics demanded stricter controls on science that could be used for good and evil.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read on for the full story on how scientists globally are trying to address this issue.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/339\/6115\/16.full\">http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/339\/6115\/16.full<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0&#8220;Just because we can does it mean we should?&#8221; Researchers who study the H5N1 avian influenza virus will soon be able to do some science that&#8217;s been off-limits for nearly a year. This has sparked\u00a0 renewed debate on the dangers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/avian-influenza-h5n1-researchers-ready-as-moratorium-nears-end\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[481,15,485],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology-resources","category-general","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}