Cameroon Subsistence Hunters
Cameroon Plantation Workers
Cameroon Military
Democratic Republic of Congo Subsistence Hunters
Highly Exposed persons (sanctuary workers, vets) in Central Africa
Chinese Wet-Market Workers
Chinese Restaurant Butchers
Malaysian Bat Hunters
Orang Osli (Malaysia)
Numerous animals in all sites
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Selected Press / All News ›
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National Geographic Nathan Wolfe Interview listen  |
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Nature “AAAS: Viral chatter” Earlier today, UCLA researcher Nathan Wolfe gave a fascinating talk on the intricate art of ‘viral forecasting’. Viral forecasting takes disease surveillance a step further than public health agencies normally go: instead of waiting for an outbreak and then rushing to contain it, Wolfe tries to find new viruses before they find us. more |
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Mental Floss “10 Trailblazing Scientists About to Change Your Future” Instead of spending his days in a lab, UCLA professor Nathan Wolfe has thrown himself into the heart of the jungle. more |
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Scientific American “Pandemic Hot Spots Map a Path to Prevention” A new study maps out areas of the world that researchers think are most likely to breed the killer diseases of the future—and the highlighted countries are not the ones getting most of the resources for disease prevention. more | download pdf › |
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Economist “And now here is the virus forecast” On February 18th a glimmer of hope died. The Population Council, a big international charity, announced the results of one of the largest trials yet undertaken of a vaginal microbicide intended to protect the user from infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. more | download pdf › |
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Living on Earth / NPR “Hunting for the Next Pandemic” listen |
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Wired “The Plague Fighters: Stopping the Next Pandemic Before it Begins” HIV, Ebola, SARS — any of the world's most horrifying diseases are caused by animal viruses that made the jump to humans. Now a UCLA scientist thinks he can stop the next pandemic before it even starts. more |
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National Geographic News Feature interview with a top virus hunter on a mission to stop the next pandemic before it starts. more |
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SciDev.net “Scientists: Early warning system for disease needed” Scientists have called for a "global early warning system" to track infectious diseases that jump from animals to humans, in a paper published in Nature today. more |
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Baltimore Sun “Monkey meat and its hazards” Hopkins researchers in Cameroon try to stop emerging viruses in their tracks. download pdf › |
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Forbes "The Spreading Epidemic" We're destroying the web of nature. Can we knit it back together? download pdf › |
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The Scientist “Nathan Wolfe: From Bench to Bush” Traditional thinking in epidemiology held that successful cross-species transmission is a rare occurrence. "Nathan puts some old ideas on their head... download pdf › |
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Stanford Magazine “Preventing the Next Plague” Nathan Wolfe pursues killer viruses by studying subsistence hunters and their prey. more |