Birdflu: Crucial gene data locked away in private databank !

[oscar111]

As best as i understand it, {not an expert}... The gene scientist who runs the site is saying that WHO is using a private data repository .... and some crucial gene map information on bird flu is not available to scientists in general. Unclear if private means corporate or only-available-to-WHO-staffers.

Obviously, this hinders the fight against bird flu !

A petition has been started by that scientist, and i urge you to sign it. Only a pathetic four hundred have signed it so far. Even tho the petition was mentioned on CNN. Site founder is Dr. Niman, who has been with U. Pittsburg.. and made the flu monoclonal antibody in the 'eighties.

CLUSTER... SECOND BIGGEST ON RECORD
BTW, the press has not reported the latest two Indonesian deaths fully, to my casual knowledge: in fact, the "two sibling deaths" which are the very latest news.... are part of a family cluster of 7. The second largest cluster on record. That number seven was nowhere in the news i saw. Odd.

ISOLATE NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA
For details on my idea to easily isolate both north and south america by using the natural barriers of our two oceans, see my Journal, top right module. Journal link is at the top of this post, first icon.

TEXAS NOW TO USE WEBCAMS TO SEAL BORDER
Even the more difficult chore of sealing a land barrier is now seen as feasible by TX governor Perry, who now plans to spend five million for webcams ... and to have the whole world watch the border online. I'm no fan of Perry, but i prefer his positivism to the odd defeatism about borders i have oft seen. Fellow dems, stop being defeatists.

I am an optimist.... humans can do anything they set their mind to. Just as JFK implied, before the moonshot. We can seal borders, we can seal oceans. Progressives don't buy defeatism.

PETITION LINK:

http://www.petitiononline.com/h5n12006/petition.html

THE SITE HOME PAGE, HOSTED BY DR. NIMAN:
http://www.recombinomics.com/

FROM HIS SITE'S LINKS TO UPI:
Recombinomics added, "Sequences from this outbreak and early human cases in Indonesia are sequestered at the World Health Organization's ... private database."

Only one sequence from an Indonesian H5N1 patient has been released publicly so far, the firm noted.

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The most common strain is similar to the publicly available sequence, which has a novel cleavage site that has not been previously reported in poultry in Indonesia or elsewhere, Recombinomics said.

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A third strain is in the recent large cluster in north Sumatra and is amantadine resistant. "Release of these human sequences would provide clues on their origin," Recombinomics argued.

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"Data from an H5N1-infected cat as well as other hosts in Indonesia and worldwide would also enhance the analysis, adding to the need for the release of all sequestered H5N1 sequences."