Reply to "Studies on influenza virus transmission between ferrets: the public health risks revisited".

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Animal Models for Influenza Research: Strengths and Weaknesses.Viruses · 2021
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2. Application of a Biologically Contained Reporter System To Study Gain-of-Function H5N1 Influenza A Viruses with Pandemic Potential.mSphere · 2020
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3. Improved Biosafety and Biosecurity Measures and/or Strategies to Tackle Laboratory-Acquired Infections and Related Risks.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018
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4. A Review of Laboratory-Acquired Infections in the Asia-Pacific: Understanding Risk and the Need for Improved Biosafety for Veterinary and Zoonotic Diseases.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2018
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5. Why Do Exceptionally Dangerous Gain-of-Function Experiments in Influenza?Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2018
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6. Underprotection of Unpredictable Statistical Lives Compared to Predictable Ones.Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis · 2017
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7. Viral factors in influenza pandemic risk assessment.eLife · 2016
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8. Gain-of-Function Research: Ethical Analysis.Science and engineering ethics · 2016
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9. Assessing and Managing the Risks of Potential Pandemic Pathogen Research.mBio · 2015
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10. Reply to "Comments on Fouchier's calculation of risk and elapsed time for escape of a laboratory-acquired infection from his laboratory".mBio · 2015
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11. Comments on Fouchier's calculation of risk and elapsed time for escape of a laboratory-acquired infection from his laboratory.mBio · 2015
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Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Moratorium on research intended to create novel potential pandemic pathogens.2014
• Comment on
  Studies on influenza virus transmission between ferrets: the public health risks revisited.2015

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

Abstract

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