Public health: Use open data to curb Zika virus : Nature : Nature Publishing Group

Public health: Use open data to curb Zika virus : Nature : Nature Publishing Group

Public health: Use open data to curb Zika virus

• Marie-Paule Kieny,
• Vasee Moorthy
• & Daniela Bagozzi

• Affiliations
• Corresponding author

Nature

 

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469

 

(26 May 2016)

 

doi:10.1038/533469b

Published online

 

25 May 2016

To avoid losing valuable knowledge and to accelerate decision-making during the current Zika public-health emergency, the World Health Organization (WHO) and international partners are renewing efforts to promote rapid sharing of the latest research data (see go.nature.com/qtf5x4). Data sharing is important for all medical research, and particularly during outbreaks of…