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Roots of an Outbreak

How the Next Pandemic Could Start

The next pandemic is just a forest clearing away. We’re not doing enough to prevent viruses from spilling over from wildlife to humans.

How We Used Machine Learning to Investigate Where Ebola May Strike

The (Random) Forests for the Trees: How Our Spillover Model Works

Out of Balance

Why Scientists Have a Hard Time Getting Money to Study the Root Causes of Outbreaks

This Scientist Tracked Bats for Decades and Solved a Mystery About a Deadly Disease

Au bord de la catastrophe

How We Found That Sites of Previous Ebola Outbreaks Are at Higher Risk Than Before