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Disease: The Next Big One

Chris Brunner, October 28, 2013

Sixty percent of human infectious diseases, including the worst of the old ones and the scariest of the new are zoonotic.  What are the public health issues to be faced as we prepare for the next global pandemic? What role are disease ecologists playing in the efforts to limit the scope of coming pandemics?  Read more about it in David Quammen’s, New York Time’s article: Disease: The Next Big One