THE WORLD is the stage for the next pandemic. In our first discussion, we began to unravel the web of disease outbreak and saw how any combination of individual pathogens, vectors, and humans can interact to produce an epidemic (a regional outbreak) or even a pandemic (a global outbreak). The odds seemed to be stacked against us until we delved
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Editor’s Note: This article is the second of a three-part series on the components involved in the creation and prevention of infectious disease outbreaks. Check out the first part “It Only Takes One” if you haven’t yet. The third (and final!) article will be coming in a month–stay tuned! A NATION is the center of organization for the individuals in
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IT ONLY TAKES ONE infected person to start the spread of a deadly disease. Every outbreak seems to have a “Patient Zero”: the first infected human who spreads the pathogen to others. The HIV/AIDS pandemic is said
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