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Juliette Kayyem

Security vs. scourge

Scientists mutate a deadly virus. Should the details be published?

By Juliette Kayyem

 |  Globe Columnist  

  January 05, 2012

Here’s what you need to know: since 1997, nearly 600 people have been infected worldwide by direct exposure to infected birds. The fatality rate is 60 percent, but its impact was limited becuase it couldn’t transmit from human to human. Until now.

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