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Safety and security concerns regarding transmissible vaccines

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  1. Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Jonas B. Sandbrink

  2. Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Matthew C. Watson

  3. Nuclear Threat Initiative, Washington, DC, USA

    Andrew M. Hebbeler

  4. Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Kevin M. Esvelt

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Sandbrink, J.B., Watson, M.C., Hebbeler, A.M. et al. Safety and security concerns regarding transmissible vaccines. Nat Ecol Evol 5, 405–406 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01394-3

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