U.S. Government Lifts It's Three-Year Research Funding Ban On Making Deadly Viruses Even More Deadlier

Daily Mail: US government lifts three-year research funding ban aimed at making viruses more lethal and says studies could even extend to cover Ebola

* The NIH said that it is lifting a three-year moratorium on deadly virus research
* The government halted funding for research aimed at making more lethal and transmittable viruses like influenza, MERS and SARS in 2014
* To get funding, researches will need to face a new government panel
* The panel will determine whether the research benefits outweigh any risks

Government officials have lifted the moratorium on funding for research that involves altering certain viruses to make them more lethal and transmittable.

In a press briefing, the head of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis S. Collins, said Tuesday that the research can now go ahead — provided a scientific panel determines that the benefits of that research outweighs any risks involved.

The suspension was originally put into place in October 2014, impacting research that involved making the influenza virus, as well as viruses that cause Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), more dangerous and communicable.

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