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Vigilance is not enough

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Global surveillance is key to tracking potential pandemic viruses such as H5N1. But we need to share samples more rapidly, increase testing in endemic areas and track more than one virus, argues Walter Boyce.

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  1. Walter Boyce is director of the Wildlife Health Center, and co-director of the NIH Center for Rapid Influenza Surveillance and Research, at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, California, USA.,

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Boyce, W. Vigilance is not enough. Nature 450, 791–792 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/450791a

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