Sentences with phrase «sharing avian influenza»

Also this week, a large, international group of researchers is calling for a Global Initiative on Sharing Avian Influenza Data, Capua notes (Science, 25 August).

Instead, it uses information the CDC posts in the Global Initiative on Sharing Avian Influenza Data (GISAID) database, launched in 2006 by a number of science institutes and universities worldwide (including WHO, the CDC and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics) to encourage data - sharing in response to the global spread of the H5N1 avian flu.