Finally, bird flu genetic info from Indonesia

Here's welcome news -- Indonesia is making genetic sequences of bird flu virus isolates available to the public. This means that scientists around the world can study and map the information, to determine what is happening to the virus in that country.

The bird flu virus will be both from those infecting human patients and those found in chickens. This is important because there's a suspicion that the virus is going from person to person more than WHO is acknowledging, rather than everybody catching it from chickens.

So scientists wants to see if the isolates found in human patients matches or not isolates found in nearby infected chickens.

Indonesia sent 91 avian flu viruses to the Geelong Laboratory in Australia. That's a reference laboratory for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization FAO.
Information from the CDC was transferred to the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory. And also Genbank.
Another laboratory, at the University of Hong Kong and run by influenza expert Dr. Malik Peiris has also transferred work to Los Alamos.

Indonesia makes genetic bird flu isolates open to public



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