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How best to prepare for epidemics? Strengthen primary care

  • Written by Ashwin Vasan, Assistant Professor of Clinical Population Health & Medicine, Columbia University
imageA worker at the Wynwood Community Service Center hands a local resident a can of insect repellent Aug. 4, 2016, in Miami. AP Photo/Alan Diaz

In global public health, 2016 was a year defined by the end of two important emergencies: Ebola and Zika.

But that doesn’t mean the risk either of these viruses pose has gone away. Zika transmission...

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