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Genetic detectives: how scientists use DNA to track disease outbreaks

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor

They’re the top questions on everyone’s mind when a new disease outbreak happens: where did the virus come from? When did this happen? How long has it been spreading in a particular country or group of people?

These questions have been the foundation of epidemiology, the study of the occurrence and spread of disease, since the days when...

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