There is an interesting development in the bid flu community. Many of the amateur slueths and scientists proclaim that the virus has mutated rapidly in the last month aquiring 5 out of 6 of the amino acids necessary for human to human transmission. However they claim that they are unable to study the virus completly because the World Health Organization has hidden the results of many virus samples taken from around the world inside of a password protected database. This begs the question: why would the WHO do this? Other health organizations like the OIE do not do this, they make thier sequencing information public as soon their testing is complete on public websites such as GenBank. Are they hiding something? Do they hope to make money somehow? Are they afraid of widespread panic? Are they lazy and ineffective? I suspect the latter is the answer.
Italy's Directory of Vetinary Institute calls on WHO to disclose dataRecombinomics call for immediate release of WHO data.
Hoarding?
