These maps reveal where rats, monkeys, and other mammals may pass diseases on to humans
Tuesday, June 14, 2016 - 13:31
in Biology & Nature
The majority of infectious diseases currently emerging as human epidemics originated in mammals. Yet we still know very little about the global patterns of mammal-to-human pathogen transmission. As a first step, researchers have assembled summative world maps of what's on record about mammal-to-human diseases.