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zoonotic diseases

A GDP for nature: How measuring the health of the natural world might prevent the next pandemic

By Laura H. Kahn | Disruptive Technologies

Bats.

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