Spillover - Zika, Ebola & Beyond

Natural Selection in an Outbreak

Computational geneticist Pardis Sabeti and disease ecologist Lina Moses discuss how the 2013–2015 Ebola outbreak in west Africa became the largest Ebola outbreak in history. This video was produced as an educational resource by HHMI BioInteractive.

Natural Selection in an Outbreak

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    Spillover - Zika, Ebola & Beyond

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    Investigate the rise of spillover viruses like Zika, Ebola and Nipah that can make the leap from animals to humans. Find out how human behaviors spread diseases and what science can do to anticipate and prevent epidemics around the world.

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