The recent cases of Ebola contagion in health care workers make evident the lack of a complete understanding of the infection process. There are evidences against respiratory system involvement along the complete transmission cycle, from an infected individual to an uni...

In letters to the journals Science and Nature (1, 2), 22 virologists notified the research community of their interest in expanding research to develop strains of the already deadly H7N9 Asian influenza virus that would be transmissible via aerosols among mammals, thus ...

In September 2011, scientists announced new experimental findings that would not only threaten the conduct and publication of influenza research, but would have significant policy and intelligence implications. The findings presented a modified variant of the H5N1 avian...