Ethical Alternatives to Experiments with Novel Potential Pandemic Pathogens
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1 Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 2 Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 3 Department of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases), Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, 4 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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