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Spillover - Zika, Ebola & Beyond

Natural Selection in an Outbreak

Visit the front lines of the West African Ebola outbreak.

06/26/2018

Spillover - Zika, Ebola & Beyond

Natural Selection in an Outbreak

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Visit the front lines of the West African Ebola outbreak.

Computational geneticist Pardis Sabeti and disease ecologist Lina Moses discuss how the 2013–2015 Ebola outbreak in west Africa became the largest Ebola outbreak in history. This video was produced as an educational resource by HHMI BioInteractive.

06/26/2018

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