Finches, Dogs, Lions and Zika: An Ecologist Looks at Emerging Disease

University of Minnesota, School of Public Health. 01/24/2017 This one-hour, 32-minute webinar provides quantitative estimates of levels of pathogen diversity in natural communities, illustrating the relative insignificance of discovering new viruses, and describing the factors that determine successful emergence and subsequent evolution in a well-studied avian pathogen. The speaker also provides an analysis of the current and future dynamics of Zika virus and its response to potential control methods. (Video or Multimedia)

Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - December 6, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news