Primate disease field guide covers critical gap in global health

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 - 13:07 in Biology & Nature

Why are so many infectious diseases jumping from animals to humans? Why do we have so little capacity to predict epidemics, or avoid them? Some answers, and possible solutions, can be found in the first trench-to-bench guide to wild primate infectious diseases, published 17 November in the Yearbook of Physical Anthropology...

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