Publications about bird flu virus was deliberately created by human appeared in scientific journals. One of them was published in the Nature journal.
Four months ago, the U.S. government banned the publication of two studies of how scientists create bird flu virus that is easily spread. However, the current revised version of the journal is published with the agreement of U.S. government.
Nature journal published a revised version on Wednesday (2/5/2012) online. The paper was revised on purpose because U.S. government worried about the possible misuse of information by bioterrorist who want to make a virus for the purpose of terror. On the other hand, the researchers argue that publish research results in detail is important to deal with the threat of malicious viruses.
Meanwhile, the second paper of more controversial, because it involves a more dangerous virus will be published later in Science journal.
