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Friday, 9 August 2013

SCIENTISTS TO CREATE MUTANT FORM OF NEW BIRD FLU VIRUS TO WORK OUT RISK OF IT CAUSING A DEADLY HUMAN PANDEMIC

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Scientists are to create mutant forms of the H7N9 bird flu virus that has emerged in China so they can work out the risk of a lethal human pandemic. Highly transmissible and deadly forms of H7N9 will be made in several high security laboratories around the world – but it is vital to prepare for the threat, the scientists say. The new bird flu virus, which was unknown in humans until February, has already infected at least 133 people in China and Taiwan, killing 43 of them, according to the latest World Health Organisation (WHO) data.  
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Scientists are to create mutant forms of the H7N9 bird flu virus that has emerged in China so they can work out the risk of a lethal human pandemic. Highly transmissible and deadly forms of H7N9 will be made in several high security laboratories around the world – but it is vital to prepare for the threat, the scientists say. The new bird flu virus, which was unknown in humans until February, has already infected at least 133 people in China and Taiwan, killing 43 of them, according to the latest World Health Organisation (WHO) data.  The only way to find out how likely that is, and how many genetic changes would need to take place before it could happen, is to engineer those mutations in laboratory conditions and test the virus’s potential using animal models, they said. ’It’s clear this H7N9 virus has some hallmarks of pandemic viruses, and it’s also clear it is still missing at least one or two of the hallmarks we’ve seen in the pandemic viruses of the last century,’ Fouchier told Reuters.
The new bird flu virus has already infected at least 133 people in China
‘So the most logical step forward is to put in those (missing) mutations first.’ Writing in the journals Nature and Science on behalf of 22 scientists who will carry out various aspects of the H7N9 work, Fouchier said because the risk of a pandemic caused by a bird flu virus exists in nature, it was critical for risk-mitigation plans to study the likely mutations that could make that happen. This kind of science is known as ‘gain of function’ (GOF) research.  It aims to identify combinations of genetic mutations that allow an animal virus to jump to humans and spread easily. By finding the mutations needed, researchers and health authorities can better assess how likely it is that a new virus could become dangerous and if so, how soon they should begin developing drugs, vaccines and other scientific defenses. Yet such work is highly controversial. It has fuelled an international row in the past two years after it was carried out on another threatening bird flu virus called H5N1.
Infectious particles of the avian H7N9 virus emerging from a cell. Scientists who sparked an outcry by creating easier-to-spread versions of the bird flu want to try such experiments again
When Fouchier and Kawaoka announced in late 2011 they had found how to make H5N1 into a form that could spread between mammals, the U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) was so alarmed that it took the unprecedented step of trying to censor publication of the studies. The NSABB said it feared details of the work could fall into the wrong hands and be used for bioterrorism.  A year-long delay on such research followed while the World Health Organisation, U.S. security advisers and international flu researchers sought ways to ensure the highest safety controls. The laboratory Fouchier will be working in is known as a BSL3 Enhanced lab (Bio-Safety Level 3), the highest level of biosecurity that can be achieved in academic research. ’Nature is the biggest threat to us, not what we do in the lab. What we do in the lab is under very intense biosecurity measures,’ he said.  ’There are layers upon layers of layers of biosafety measures such that if one layer might break there are additional layers to prevent this virus ever coming out.’ Fouchier said research has been ‘under fire’ recently.  ’One of the accusations against the flu community was that we were not transparent enough about what experiments were being done, and why and how they were being done,’ he said.
The experiments aim to identify combinations of genetic mutations that allow an animal virus to jump to humans and spread
‘We’re trying to pre-empt such accusations this time.’ The H7N9 bird flu outbreak currently appears under control with only three new human cases in May, after 87 in April and 30 in March.  Experts say this is largely thanks to the closure of many live poultry markets and because of warmer weather. Yet as winter approaches in China, many experts believe H7N9 could re-emerge, meaning the threat of a pandemic looms if it mutates to become easily transmissible between people. Wendy Barclay, an Imperial College London flu expert, said it would be ludicrous to shy away from such studies.  ’This type of work is like fitting glasses for someone who can’t see well,’ she said. ‘Without the glasses the vision is blurred and uncertain, with them you can focus on the world and deal with it a lot more easily.’
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