Dutch researcher Ron Fouchier, PhD, of Erasmus University, said the voluntary 60-day moratorium on lab-modified H5N1 viruses expired Mar 20 and added that researchers are waiting for national governments to release their lab biosecurity assessments. These assessments were a component of a plan stemming from a World Health Organization (WHO) meeting of technical experts in February.
Fouchier made his comments during a live episode of virologist Vincent Racaniello's "This Week in Virology" (TWiV), which was broadcast via webcast from the Society for General Microbiology conference in Dublin, Ireland. Racaniello, a virologist at Columbia University, authors Virology Blog and hosts the weekly virology podcast series.
Click "source" for more. Video of this event will be released on Sunday on MicrobeWorld Video.
