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Fighting a Pandemic with One Eye Closed

May 11, 2007

An article in The Scientist worries that despite advances in vaccines, many scientists worry that not enough is being done to curtail the next pandemic. Scientists at the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics at Penn State are taking a systems approach to disease; they hope to solve the problem of potentially pandemic parasites by marrying things like population biology and ecology to epidemiology and genomics.

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