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The author is director-general of the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, an expert government agency for surveillance, control and research in the field of communicable diseases. Citizens from the host country are excluded from the ECDC director position.
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Norrby, S. Alert to a European epidemic. Nature 431, 507–508 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/431507a
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