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Stephen Downes

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The situation described in this post raises the possibility that the next influenza epidemic will result not from a superbug but because of patent law. You need to share data to fight influenza, but countries that are sharing data are getting tired of paying royalties to companies that use that data to create proprietary - and expensive - vaccines.

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