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Notes"We pride ourselves on having explored nearly every corner of this planet, but behind our world is a shadow world of microbes—and they are often calling the shots."Nathan Wolfe, founder of the Global Viral Forecasting Initiative, in National Geographic.
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“I think there’s a sense that many of us have that the great age of exploration on Earth is over,” says virus hunter Nathan Wolfe. That sense, as he explains in this keynote, is mistaken—there still might be entire forms of microscopic life that have not yet been found.
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NotesPBS’s NewsHour interviews virus hunter Nathan Wolfe.
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Nathan Wolfe’s mission is to stop the next deadly pandemic before it has a chance to jump from animals to humans. TIME Magazine’s story on the celebrated Virus Hunter is a compelling read.
Nathan Wolfe quoted in TIME on the threat of the next pandemic:
“We sit here dodging bullets left and right, assuming we have an invisible shield, but you can’t dodge bullets forever.”
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Notes“We live at this moment in history where we’re going to have more and more pandemics. It’s the nature of the way that our species is.” -Nathan Wolfe
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NotesThe chilling new Steven Soderbergh movie, Contagion, about the spread of a lethal airborne pandemic, stars Oscar winners Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet, and Marion Cotillard. Pandemic speaker Nathan Wolfe —a renowned biologist and virus hunter whose book, The Viral Storm, is out this fall—served as a technical advisor to the film.
