You can assume that journal subscription costs are negligible compared to laboratory costs. If not, then you can assume that evolution has already done most of the work for you and that mischief arising from the accessibility of knowledge is comparable to the risk of spontaneous outbreak and trivial compared to the risk of development and exploitation by nefarious parties.
And ultimately that is the objective of virology (at least performed in the pursuit of medical ethics): to understand and mitigate as much of the space of viral evolutionary pathways as possible as early as possible.
Can we honestly say that when the researchers themselves are pointing out the extraordinary lethality of this particular H5N1 strain?This part of the scientific community appear to have been oblivious to the dangers, even when the traditional methods of oversight have been used...
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