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Nature 441, 574 (1 June 2006) | doi:10.1038/441574c; Published online 31 May 2006
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Can the Internet save us from epidemics?
David M. Eagleman1
- Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Texas, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
Kathleen Morrison, in News & Views ("Failure and how to avoid it" Nature 440, 752–754; 2006), notes that societies have often prevented collapse by adopting new technological strategies. In today's world, where one of the most-talked about prospects for collapse is an epidemic of infectious disease, it is worth remembering that perhaps we already have the technological strategy to avoid it — the Internet.
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