Canada Slowest in Reporting Bird Flu at 618 Days – but COVID Shows We Can Do Better - Science in Vancouver

Canada Slowest in Reporting Bird Flu at 618 Days – but COVID Shows We Can Do Better - Science in Vancouver

The global average for countries to report genetic information about bird flu, crucial to tracking and preventing a human pandemic, was seven months, and Canada came in last, a new study has found. Authors of the non-peer reviewed commentary published today in Nature Biotechnology say the work highlights the urgent need for Canada and other countries to speed up the pipeline from sampling an infected creature, analysis of the genetic information…