Are we mad to have let a maverick scientist create a virus that could wipe out 400 million people? Professor Yoshihiro Kawaoka created a new strain of 2009 swine flu virus If virus escaped it could kill up to a billion people – there is no known vaccine Professor Kawaoka argues that it is part of valuable scientific research Others in the field have called the experiment ‘exceedingly dangerous’ He’s basically got a known pandemic strain that is now resistant to vaccination. Everything he did before was dangerous, but this is even madder. I am worried that this signals a growing trend to make “transmissible” novel viruses willy-nilly. In the … Continue reading Yoshihiro Kawaoka