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Interview: Predicting pandemics

Infectious diseases expert Dennis Carroll outlines his vision for monitoring viral threats across the globe

Just months before the Covid-19 virus was identified in China last year, the United States government quietly wound down its global programme dedicated to discovering pathogens circulating in wild animals and understanding why some jump to humans.

Until then, the US Agency for International Development’s Predict programme had been led by Dennis Carroll.

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