Epidemics-in-waiting

Jim Bull () and Dan Dykhuizen ()
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Jim Bull: Section of Integrative Biology and the Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas
Dan Dykhuizen: State University of New York at Stony Brook

Nature, 2003, vol. 426, issue 6967, 609-610

Abstract: Could the next SARS-like virus reach epidemic proportions? Quantifying the likely threat of emerging diseases isn't easy, but evolution is a crucial factor that may tip the balance in favour of such human parasites.

Date: 2003
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