Flu researchers slam US agency for hoarding data

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Influenza researchers are complaining that the poor sharing of data by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta is hindering their work, as the policy decisions are being made without full data being available to the scientific community. Many in the influenza field are displeased with the CDC's practice of refusing to deposit sequences of most of the strains that they sequence and hence the quality of their decisions cannot be checked.

Science & research, Administration of Public Health Programs, Centers for Disease Control, Research, Records and correspondence, United States. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Flu officials pull back from raising global alert level

Article Abstract:

The research groups visiting Vietnam filed a report in the first week of July 2005 indicating a widespread human-to-human transmission of the deadly flu strain H5NI. But due to the failure of the subsequent test on human-to-human transmission, the alert was not upgraded to the global level.

Vietnam, Prevention, Epidemics

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Academics strike back at spurious rankings

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Academics have boycotted the most influential university ranking in the U.S., thus highlighting the problem of institutional rankings. They believe that the ranking implies a false precision and authority that is not warranted by the data they use.

United Kingdom, Germany, Colleges & Universities, Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools, Colleges and universities, Universities and colleges, Rankings

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