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Published online 29 March 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050328-2

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Gossip mongers push for national networks

Surveillance of disease rumours looks set to expand.

Public-health experts are poised to exploit an unlikely weapon in the war against bird flu and other fatal diseases. They want to expand a worldwide system for eavesdropping on rumours.

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