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Why it's so difficult for scientists to predict the next outbreak of a dangerous disease

  • Written by C. Brandon Ogbunu, Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University
_Aedes aegypti_ mosquitoes, responsible for transmitting Zika.AP Photo/Felipe Dana

A two-year-old boy in rural Guinea died of Ebola in December 2014. Over the next two years, almost 30,000 people in West Africa would be infected with the Ebola virus.

Why, unlike previous 17 Ebola outbreaks, did this one grow so large, so quickly? What, if anything,...

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