The Next Pandemic: Why It Will Come from Wildlife

Yale Environment 360: Emerging diseases are in the news again. Scary viruses are making themselves noticed and felt. There's been a lot of that during the past several months -- West Nile fever kills 17 people in the Dallas area, three tourists succumb to hantavirus after visiting Yosemite National Park, an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo claims 33 lives. A separate Ebola outbreak, across the border in Uganda, registers a death toll of 17. A peculiar new coronavirus, related to SARS, proves fatal...

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