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Published online 28 July 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060724-12
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Bird flu outbreaks in Indonesia going unstudied
"No sequence data" have been acquired from birds for nearly a year.
Nature has learned that very few — if any — avian flu samples from Indonesian birds have been sent to official labs for sequencing over the past year.
The data blackout comes just as surveys of the country are revealing a startling number of previously unrecognized avian outbreaks.
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