Research on bird flu may be too dangerous to publish

Though H5N1 kills with brutality when it takes hold in a human, it infects extremely rarely and doesn't go on to easily spread between people. Public health officials have long fretted that the virus may one day find a way to do so.
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Though H5N1 kills with brutality when it takes hold in a human, it infects extremely rarely and doesn't go on to easily spread between people. Public health officials have long fretted that the virus may one day find a way to do so.

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