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How Museum Collections Could Help Scientists Predict Future Pandemics
The broad array of animal specimens could allow researchers to identify likely pathogen sources, hosts and transmission pathways
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Global shifts in mammalian population trends reveal key predictors of virus spillover risk
Emerging infectious diseases in humans are frequently caused by pathogens originating from animal hosts, and zoonotic disease outbreaks present a major challenge to globa …
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