China secrecy stalls bird flu vaccine
March 13, 2006, by Michael Sheridan
CHINESE state secrecy and academic squabbles have combined to deny vital research material to scientists struggling to develop a bird flu vaccine.
More than 90 people have died as the disease has spread from China to Europe and Africa. Yet bureaucrats in Beijing have only just agreed to share samples of live viruses after refusing such information to the international community during more than 30 outbreaks of the H5N1 virus.
Their reasons appear to have been an instinct to monopolise information and resentment that Chinese scientists were not credited for research published in an American academic journal.
March 13, 2006, by Michael Sheridan
CHINESE state secrecy and academic squabbles have combined to deny vital research material to scientists struggling to develop a bird flu vaccine.
More than 90 people have died as the disease has spread from China to Europe and Africa. Yet bureaucrats in Beijing have only just agreed to share samples of live viruses after refusing such information to the international community during more than 30 outbreaks of the H5N1 virus.
Their reasons appear to have been an instinct to monopolise information and resentment that Chinese scientists were not credited for research published in an American academic journal.
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