Boosting access to disease data
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A scheme called the Global Initiative on Sharing Avian Influenza Data (GISAID) is initiated to facilitate the sharing of avian-flu samples and data among nations. Although countries and scientists in affected countries might be reluctant to share outbreak data, the proposed scheme, based on guidelines for sharing data in large-scale biological research, could provide a model for rapid dissemination of data from outbreaks of future emerging diseases, since sharing is essential for collective research, surveillance and control.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2006
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Power to the people
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Scientists and experts feel that, in the African countries doctors and researchers should take the initiative to start and implement the effective research and control measures, which will assist in reducing deaths due to malaria and concentrate on developing and testing drugs and vaccines. The African scientists are organizing themselves into regional networks, which will facilitate the exchange of ideas and skills and bring together their resources.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2004
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