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The End of Epidemics: It's all about the money

A new book's ambitious plan to spot and stop global epidemics is easier said than done unless governments show willing and fund a real scheme to do just that

By Debora Mackenzie

4 April 2018

grave markers in Liberia

The 2014 Ebola outbreak claimed thousands of lives in Liberia

Daniel Berehulak/NYT/eyevine

INFECTIOUS disease is humanity’s oldest and deadliest . Epidemics from HIV to flu remind us that it is far from defeated. As the human population grows, factory farming expands and climate change upends the ecology of infections and their hosts, new pathogens are invading – and every time one does, it is clear that we aren’t prepared. Public health experts seethe with the knowledge that this just isn’t good enough.

So Jonathan Quick, a veteran of the World Health Organization and of efforts to get good business…

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