Indonesia Opens Information to WHO

Indonesia has finally decided to help the World Health Organization in its global fight against the bird virus by sharing information on the virus.

Before that, Indonesia decided to stopped sharing information on the said virus in protest for a lack of access to vaccines that were produced by developed countries. The country was then criticized for by health officials and scientific researchers.

“We have always promoted the sharing of influenza data, all we ask for is that it be done in a fair, transparent, and equitable manner,” Supari said of Indonesia’s decision to contribute sequence data to the new database, known as the Global Initiative on Sharing Avian Influenza Data (GISAID), according to the AP report.

With the merging of the information, we hope that a cure be found soon.

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