Excerpt from: Cautionary Tale -
The Science of I am Legend
The Science of I am Legend
Current global disease control focuses almost exclusively on responding to epidemics after they have already spread globally. Nevertheless, dramatic failures in such pandemic control, such as the ongoing lack of success in HIV vaccine development twenty-five years into the pandemic, have shown that this wait-and-respond approach is not sufficient, and that the development of systems to prevent novel pandemics before they are established should be considered a human health imperative. Had we had such systems in place thirty years ago we may have averted the HIV pandemic. more »
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Discover “Where Will the Next Pandemic Emerge?” download pdf › |
New York Times “Deep in the Rain Forest, Stalking the Next Pandemic” more » | download pdf › |
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Nature “Origins of major human infectious diseases” download pdf › |
On Point / NPR “The Virus Hunter” listen |
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The Lancet “Naturally acquired simian retrovirus infections in central African hunters” download pdf › |
Economist “And now here is the virus forecast” more » | download pdf › |
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PNAS “Emergence of unique primate T-lymphotropic viruses among central African bushmeat hunters” download pdf › |
Wired “The Plague Fighters: Stopping the Next Pandemic Before it Begins” more » | download pdf › |
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