Members of Congress Sign Petition

[sharon sanders]

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Flu Stories: The Witholding of Flu Viral Sequences Filters Into Mass Media


by DemfromCT

Fri Jul 14, 2006 at 04:05:55 AM PDT




Welcome to Science Friday. There are other important things going on in the world, but the H5N1 issue continues to simmer in the background.

From Nicholas Zamiska, WSJ:
Scientists around the world, racing to discover how avian influenza is spreading and whether it is evolving toward a pandemic strain, face a dilemma: Should they share their interim findings widely, show them only to a select set of peers, or keep them to themselves until they can publish papers, often critical to their careers?


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In fact, US House members led by

Dennis Kucinich (Democrat, Ohio) and Wayne Gilchrest (Republican, Maryland are circulating a letter in the House of Representatives that calls on Michael Levitt, the US health secretary, to require H5N1 sequences and other publicly funded research data "to be promptly deposited in a publicly accessible database, such as GenBank".​

 

[stormsailor1981]

Re: Members of Congress Sign Petition

THANK GOD. i sent e-mails to both senators from north carolina. and i received in the mail from both pamphlets on healthcare. and then messages on my answering machine from their offices inviting me to luncheon fundraisers.

 

[Corn]

Re: Members of Congress Sign Petition

Bout time. The news of what the sequences contain may be grim however I'll decide for myself, not someone who controls the data. Release the sequences!