New Database: Indonesia rebuffs WHO, hands bird flu data to new public database instead
Indonesia says it will start sharing all information about its bird flu cases with a new public database, a move experts say will help monitor the disease following the country’s yearlong standoff with the World Health Organization…The free, online site launched on Thursday, 18 months after strategic adviser Peter Bogner and 77 influential scientists and health experts wrote a letter to Nature magazine calling for bird flu information to be shared more quickly and openly - resulting in the Global Initiative on Sharing Avian Influenza Data, or GISAID.