Episode 68. Pandemics: Leslie Reperant
Science History Podcast
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The Acceleration of Emerging Infectious Diseases
New infectious diseases new between bracket because actually nothing is new under the sun are appearing at an increasing pace maybe because we detect them better that's for sure. We have technologies that we didn't have before to really find out the the the the causative agent of new disease at also record pace you talked about vaccines but it's also for diagnostics and for identifying new pathogens nowWe can do that at such a rapid pace so emerging infectious disease appear to be increasing some will say oh it's because we detects them better and we are more aware of them in part it is true. But correcting for those bias they are still emerging infectious disease the pace of a disease emergence is accelerating.
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