Emerging Infectious Diseases: What Can We Learn from Primates?

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The sudden appearance and devastating human and environmental effects of diseases like SARS, Ebola, and AIDS underscore our need to understand the ecology of infectious diseases. Given that monkeys and apes often share parasites with humans, understanding the ecology of infectious diseases in non-human primates is of paramount importance. In this mini-Enviro lecture, Prof. Chapman [...]

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