Contagion Creation: Scientists Alter Very Deadly Flu Strain, Make It More Dangerous

In something you’d expect from a Hollywood script, European scientists have tweaked the deadly H5N1 virus, developing an even more potent new strain of the flu.

FOX News Radio’s Alastair Wanklyn reports from London:

Scientists in Holland, mutating the bird flu virus into a form that passes easily in the air, in a victim’s breath, perhaps.  That’s compared with the person-to-person contact needed by the existing H5N1 bird flu – that kills just over half the people it infects.  The new strain is under lock and key, reports a British newspaper.

But the scientists who developed it say they plan to publish just how they did that, despite warnings from critics that’s the kind of information terrorists might want to read.

In London, Alastair Wanklyn, FOX News Radio.