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Predicting zoonoses

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As the line dividing human and wild habitats becomes thinner, we might be brewing the world's next big pandemic. Zoonoses are diseases that are naturally transmitted between animals and humans, and a new project aims to predict their occurrence.

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Gruber, K. Predicting zoonoses. Nat Ecol Evol 1, 0098 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0098

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