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Less Prep, More Insights: GIDEON R for Epidemiology Research

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” March 2021, Ecological Conditions That Increase Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases Outbreaks: Morand and Lajaunie published their findings on how global forest cover changes and oil palm expansions are associated with increased outbreaks of vector-borne and zoonotic disease outbreaks from 1990 to 2016.

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Vaccine History and Heroes

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Following this, mice continued to serve as standard tools for the study of zoonotic diseases by future researchers (6). Yellow fever cases and rates worldwide, 1950 – 2016 Pearl Kendrick (left) and Grace Eldering.

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Brucellosis – How Dangerous is It?

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Zoonotic diseases seem to be keeping the world on its toes. What is the disease responsible for the latest outbreak in China , and what is its pathogenic potential? Not the Next COVID-19 Brucellosis is a category B bioterror disease, as classed by CDC.