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From Chicago to Uganda, scientists track the wildlife diseases that could infect humans—or spark the next pandemic

By Carlyn Kranking | Disruptive Technologies

A disease detective during the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Liberia.

Scientists are working on vaccines that spread like a disease. What could possibly go wrong?

By Filippa Lentzos, Guy Reeves | Biosecurity

David Quammen portrait

How it feels to predict a pandemic: Interview with David Quammen, author of Spillover

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change, Special Topics

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at a press conference.

Will the WHO call for an international investigation into the coronavirus’s origins?

By Filippa Lentzos | Biosecurity