App-based citizen science experiment could help researchers predict future pandemics

A new app gives UK residents the chance to get involved in an ambitious, ground-breaking science experiment that could save lives. This could the best data set we've ever had on the movement of people in the UK - for a researchers like us, this is incredibly exciting. Julia Gog The most likely and immediate threat to our species is a global pandemic of highly infectious flu. Such a pandemic could be so serious that it currently tops the UK Government's Risk Register. Scientists from the University of Cambridge and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine are attempting to collect a gold standard data set that can be used to predict how the next pandemic flu would spread through this country - and what can be done to stop it. They need your help. UK residents can take part in the BBC Pandemic experiment simply by downloading the Pandemic app onto your smartphone via App Store or Google Play from today.