A: For most of the last two centuries people have been using interventions to knock down infectious diseases as much as possible. The idea is that we're going to use weapons like vaccines and ...

How do climate, evolution, and free-living hosts interact to determine the dynamics of pathogens and the burden of disease? Aa Aa Aa Infectious diseases have long been known to cause devastating ...

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