What if the Flu Flew into the wrong hands?

In class we have been discussing Influenza for the past few days. In the article WHO: Bird Flu Study Could Be Published in Flu After Risks Assessed, by Liz Klimas written on February 22, 2012 discusses the risks involved with the publication of the study of the mutated form of the bird flu or H1N5.

If the flu was to fall into the wrong hands of a person, there could be a major epidemic break out or even a pandemic. after the meeting of flu experts and other researchers in Geneva, there was still a great debate over publishing the research or not.

Publishing something so dangerous in newspapers and broadcasting it on the news would advertise this research to the wrong people.

Gregory Hartl, a WHO spokesman, said that "there must be a much fuller discussion of risk and benefits of research in this area and risks of the virus itself."

This topic is is just like any other risk people take, except there could be a severe problem if the flu got out and into the wrong hands, does the public really need to know all about what's going on in those labs?

Personally I think this could be published if it was done so in an appropriate way. Such as not telling the location of where the virus is being studied and held along with who is conducting the research.

All of the information about the research could one day be published but only after there is a definite known vaccination or cure for this mutated form of the flu in case the virus did in fact enter the wrong hands.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/who-bird-full-study-could-be-published-in-full-after-risks-assessed/