Controversial US scientist creates deadly new flu strain for pandemic research

Exclusive: Controversial US scientist creates deadly new flu strain for pandemic research
A controversial scientist…has completed his most dangerous experiment to date by deliberately creating a pandemic strain of flu that can evade the human immune system. …“He took the 2009 pandemic flu virus and selected out strains that were not neutralised by human antibodies. He repeated this several times until he got a real humdinger of a virus,” said one scientist who was present at Professor Kawaoka’s talk.