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Pandemics: A deadly business

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Andy Tatem traces the global tracks of pathogens that have clung to the coat-tails of trade over the centuries.

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  1. Andy Tatem is an associate professor at the University of Florida in Gainesville. He studies the geography and dynamics of human and pathogen movements.,

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