Disease Expert Calls For More Talk On Flu Experiments

by Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR

A government official told federally funded flu scientists meeting in New York that it was too soon to resume controversial experiments on mutant bird flu viruses, saying the public has to have input. But one of the flu researchers who did the work says he thinks it is time to lift the moratorium on this research, and that scientists around the world will not feel bound by what the U.S. government decides.

Broadcast Dates

• Morning Edition, August 1, 2012