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Editorial
Nature 442, 957 (31 August 2006) | doi:10.1038/442957a; Published online 30 August 2006
Boosting access to disease data
Abstract
A new agreement by stakeholders to improve the sharing of flu data should eventually stimulate research on many infectious diseases. Now to make it work.
The pledge by leaders of the rich G8 countries at their summit in Russia in July to boost the meagre quality of international surveillance of infectious diseases correctly identifies many key needs: "better coordination between the animal and human health communities, building laboratory capacities, and full transparency by all nations in sharing, on a timely basis, virus samples."A scheme to end secrecy in the sharing of avian-flu samples and data, announced online last week in Nature (see page 981), addresses one aspect of the challenge.
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