Excerpt from: Cautionary Tale -
The Science of I am Legend
The Science of I am Legend
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Harvard Public Health Review HSPH alum tracks clues to pandemics before they erupt. download pdf › |
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ShortList The biggest threat to mankind is from the microbe. ShortList’s Matt Hussey talks to the man who is risking his life to save us all more › |
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USAID GVFInc part of elite teams funded by USAID Emerging Panic Threats program more › |
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Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA The notorious human immunodeficiency virus, known as HIV, originated in African ... one of humanity's outstanding medical mysteries,'' said Nathan D. Wolfe, ...more › |
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Finding the Next Epidemic
Before It Kills Nathan Wolfe wants to spot the next killer microbe while there's still time to do something about it. more › | download pdf › |
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Virus hunter aims to predict & prevent pandemics What if we could forecast outbreaks the same way we do hurricanes? Epidemiologist Nathan Wolfe ventures to the far-flung reaches of Africa, China and Asia to track how devastating diseases take hold in human populations and how they might be stopped before becoming widespread. Dr. Wolfe's most recent win? Helping to solve one of the long-standing medical mysteries surrounding malaria. see video › |
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The Origin of Human Malaria From where did human malaria come: chickens or chimps? That's been one of the questions up for debate over the last half-century regarding the origin of the most common human malarial parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, which is responsible for taking the lives of at least one million people every year. more › | download pdf › |
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Human Malaria Originated
In Chimps: Study Researchers studied malaria in chimps in Cameroon and Ivory Coast and concluded that the parasite that causes malaria in humans likely developed from the parasite that causes malaria in chimps, the Associated Press reported. It had been believed the two parasites developed from a common origin. more › | download pdf › |
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The Cosmopolitan Viruses As someone who studies how pandemics are born and how we may be able to predict and prevent them, I’m, of course, fascinated with the outbreak of Swine Flu. more › | download pdf › |
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Swine Flu Hits Mexico Dr. Nathan Wolfe of the Global Virus Forecasting Initiative talks about the flu. watch video › |
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Economist “A doctor in your pocket” Developing countries are using mobile phones to leapfrog to personalised medicine CAN new technologies help to tackle the health problems of the world’s poorest? download pdf › |
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Waiting for "The Final Plague" We should be and we can be doing a much better job to predict and prevent pandemics. download pdf › |
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National Geographic Nathan Wolfe, Epidemiologist Emerging Explorer more › | download pdf › |
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National Geographic Weekend Nathan Wolfe Swine Flu Interview | listen  |
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ABC News Nathan Wolfe talks about Swine Flu | watch video › |
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The Take Away Virus hunter Nathan Wolfe says we could have detected swine flu earlier | listen |
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Clarin El "cazador de virus" pone los ojos sobre Asia y el Africa negra | read more › |
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Prospect How we could have stopped swine flu | read more › |
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Welt Online Mehr Viren-Prävention statt Notfallpläne read more › |
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The Wall Street Journal The Age of Pandemics | read more › |
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New York Times Six-Figure Deal Reached for Book About Viruses read more › |
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TED An immune system for the planet: Exclusive interview with Nathan Wolfe watch video › | read more › |
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PC Magazine TED Tech Forum Looks Past Economy to Future read more › |
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O'Reilly Media On The Front Lines of the Next Pandemic Nathan Wolfe Interview | read/listen |
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Rolling Stone The 100 People Who Are Changing America read more › |
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Scientific American Preventing the Next Pandemic download pdf › |
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National Geographic Weekend Nathan Wolfe Interview | listen |
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Men's Journal “The Virus Hunter” HIV, Ebola, and the vast majority of other killer diseases have passed from animals to humans. So Nathan Wolfe is searching for the next AIDS before it makes the leap - and is revolutionizing the way the world tries to control diseases in the process. download pdf › |
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National Geographic “Nathan Wolfe, Epidemiologist Emerging Explorer” Just imagine the lives that could have been saved if we’d been able to forecast a pandemic like HIV/AIDS. more › | download pdf › |
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Der Spiegel Inventur der Viren download pdf › |
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Planet in Peril: Emerging diseases Anderson Cooper, Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Lisa Ling report in the CNN Worldwide investigation, "Planet in Peril: Battle Lines." watch video › |
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For Immediate Release GVFI Receives $11m to Implement Pandemic Early Warning System The Global Viral Forecasting Initiative (GVFI), a nonprofit research initiative dedicated to preventing pandemics, has received $11 million dollars from Google.org and The Skoll Foundation.. download pdf › |
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New York Times Feature on GVFI Deep in the Rain Forest, Stalking the Next Pandemic more › | download pdf › |
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Medical Tribune Preventing the next pandemic: Viral forecasting download pdf › |
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New York Times Deep in the Rain Forest, Stalking the Next Pandemic Dr. Wolfe says he enjoys the adventure. But he has a broader purpose: staving off global pandemics before they happen. more › | download pdf › |
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National Geographic Nathan Wolfe Interview listen |
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Nature “AAAS: Viral chatter” Earlier today, 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 | download pdf › |
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Mental Floss “10 Trailblazing Scientists About to Change Your Future” Instead of spending his days in a lab, professor Nathan Wolfe has thrown himself into the heart of the jungle. more | download pdf › |
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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 | download pdf › |
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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 | download pdf › |
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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 | download pdf › |
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Nature “Origins of major human infectious diseases” download pdf › |
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UCLA Public Health “Viral Forecasting” Aims to Prevent the Next Pandemic” Nathan Wolfe ventures into parts of the world where few scientists go, for reasons that are at once simple and profound: to find the next major pandemic, and prevent it from becoming one. download pdf › |