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Are We Ready for the Next Pandemic?

Are We Ready for the Next Pandemic?

Update: 2025-11-05
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Maybe not, according to Todd Disotell, a biological anthropologist and science communicator from the University of Massachusetts. Among his many research interests, Disotell studies and teaches about disease ecology: how pathogens of every variety get to be so good at making us sick (hint: evolution is deeply involved), and how our bodies fight back. Join host Mat Kaplan for this enlightening, and sometimes sobering, look at those masters of adaptation: pathogens.

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Are We Ready for the Next Pandemic?

Are We Ready for the Next Pandemic?

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