Disease Hunters
Follow disease hunters on the front lines as they identify, study, or kill infectious diseases, vectors, and microbes. Connecting today's outbreaks with historical epidemics, we can explore factors that may accelerate future episodes, like human-animal interactions, drug resistance, climate change, urbanization, and globalization.
Follow disease hunters on the front lines as they identify, study, or kill infectious diseases, vectors, and microbes. Connecting today's outbreaks with historical epidemics, we can explore factors that may accelerate future episodes, like human-animal interactions, drug resistance, climate change, urbanization, and globalization.
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