Canada slowest in reporting bird flu at 618 days – but COVID shows we can do better

Sarah P. Otto & Sean Vidal Edgerton. 2025. Lengthy delays in H5N1 genome submissions to GISAID. Nature Biotechnology

UBC Science, March 25, 2025: Canada slowest in reporting bird flu at 618 days – but COVID shows we can do better: "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. [...]"