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Letter to the Editor

Can Limited Scientific Value of Potential Pandemic Pathogen Experiments Justify the Risks?

Marc Lipsitch
Marc Lipsitch
Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology and Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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DOI: 10.1128/mBio.02008-14
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https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.02008-14
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25316701

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  • Published online October 14, 2014.

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Copyright © 2014 Lipsitch. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license, which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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  1. Marc Lipsitch
  1. Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology and Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  • Address correspondence to mlipsitc{at}hsph.harvard.edu.
  • Citation Lipsitch M. 2014. Can limited scientific value of potential pandemic pathogen experiments justify the risks? mBio 5(5):e02008-14. doi:10.1128/mBio.02008-14.

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