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Blockchain-facilitated sharing to advance outbreak R&D

In a world in which we are increasingly mobile, outbreaks of known or new infectious diseases are a real and unavoidable threat. It is vital that we build improved systems to more quickly detect and respond to new outbreaks. Concepts for such a system are the outcome of research published in Science Magazine and conducted by the Athena Institute, the RIVM Center for Infectious Disease Control, and industry partner FutureLab.

Mark B. van der Waal, Carolina dos S. Ribeiro, Moses Ma, George B. Haringhuizen, Eric Claassen and Linda H. M. van de
DOI: 10.1126/science.aba1355
Science 368 (6492), 719-721

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