Abbreviations
- ABSA American Biological Safety Association
- ASM American Society for Microbiology
- ASV American Society for Virology
- BWC Biological Weapons Convention
- CDC Centers for Disease Control (USA)
- CFR Case fatality ratio
- CWG Cambridge Working Group
- DURC Dual use research of concern
- EMC Erasmus Medical Center (Netherlands)
- ECDC European Centers for Disease Control
- ESWI European scientific working group on influenza
- ESCAIDE European scientific conference on applied infectious disease epidemiology
- FAO-OIE Food and Agriculture Organization - Office International des Epizooties
- FVR Foundation for Vaccine Research
- GOF Gain of function
- H5N1 Influenza A virus with H5 hemagglutinin and N1 neuraminidase proteins at viral surface
- H7N9 Influenza A virus with H7 hemagglutinin and N9 neuraminidase proteins at viral surface
- HHS (US Department of) Health and Human Services
- HPAI Highly pathogenic avian influenza
- IOM Institute of Medicine (US)
- KNAW Koninklijke Nederlanse Akademie van Wetenschappen Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences
- LPAI Low pathogenic avian influenza
- MERS Middle East Respiratory Syndrome
- MERS-CoV Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus
- MPS Max Planck Society (Germany)
- NAS National Academy of Sciences (US)
- NIAID Nation Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (US)
- NIH National Institutes of Health (US)
- NRC National Research Council (US)
- NSABB National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (US)
- RS Royal Society (UK)
- SARS Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
- SARS-CoV Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus
- SFA Scientists For Science
- USG US government
- VWS VolkswagenStiftung (VW Foundation, Germany)
- WHO World Health Organization
