{"id":5478,"date":"2024-04-23T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=5478"},"modified":"2024-04-24T10:41:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T14:41:21","slug":"scientists-say-usda-is-sharing-too-little-data-too-slowly-on-h5n1-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/scientists-say-usda-is-sharing-too-little-data-too-slowly-on-h5n1-flu\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists say USDA is sharing too little data too slowly on H5N1 flu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the US Department of Agriculture announced late Sunday that it had publicly posted new data from its investigation into a bird flu outbreak in cattle, scientists eagerly searched a well-known platform used globally to share the genetic sequences of viruses.<\/p>\n<p>The sequences weren\u2019t there. As of Tuesday morning, they still aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers looking to track the evolution and spread of H5N1 say the information that was posted \u2014 raw data on a US server \u2014 isn\u2019t very useful and is anything but transparent. They also say the government\u2019s release of information in the outbreak, which was confirmed in cattle almost a month ago, has been painfully slow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the US Department of Agriculture announced late Sunday that it had publicly posted new data from its investigation into a bird flu outbreak in cattle, scientists eagerly searched a well-known platform used globally to share the genetic sequences of viruses.<\/p>\n<p>The sequences weren\u2019t there. As of Tuesday morning, they still aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers looking to track the evolution and spread of H5N1 say the information that was posted \u2014 raw data on a US server \u2014 isn\u2019t very useful and is anything but transparent. They also say the government\u2019s release of information in the outbreak, which was confirmed in cattle almost a month ago, has been painfully slow.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/scientists-say-usda-is-sharing-too-little-data-too-slowly-on-h5n1-flu\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scientists say USDA is sharing too little data too slowly on H5N1 flu<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1007,1006,1009,1085,1084,361,1008,77,304,8,51],"class_list":["post-5478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-avian-flu","tag-avian-influenza","tag-bird-flu","tag-cattle","tag-cows","tag-data-suppression","tag-h5n1","tag-influenza","tag-outbreaks","tag-research","tag-united-states","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5478"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5480,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478\/revisions\/5480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}