Gary Flory sets out ways to combat pandemic threats on pp. 60-63 in the latest issue of CBNW in his article Pandemics: One World, One Health.

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Last update 27 April 2018

1: de Oliveira Carneiro I, Sander AL, Silva N, Moreira-Soto A, Normann A, Flehmig B, Lukashev AN, Dotzauer A, Wieseke N, Franke CR, Drexler JF. A novel marsupial hepatitis A virus corroborates complex evolutionary patterns shaping the genus Hepatovirus. J Virol. 2018 Apr 25. pii: JVI.00082-18. doi: 10.1128/JVI.00082-18. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29695421.

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