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Stopping the Next One

Kim Blasdell is trying to monitor levels of Buruli bacteria in possums on the Mornington Peninsular (Credit: Annette Ruzicka)
Stopping the Next One

The flesh-eating bug hitting Australia

By Harriet Constable

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Stopping the Next One

Why the risk of yellow fever is rising

By Jacob Kushner
A worker checks on pigs at a farm in China's Sichuan province (Credit: Getty Images)
Stopping the Next One

Why a 2009 pandemic could return

By Harriet Constable
Close contact between camels and humans risks spreading Mers – a more deadly coronavirus relative of Covd-19 (Credit: Jacob Kushner)
Stopping the Next One

The virus hunters warily eyeing camels

By Jacob Kushner in Marsabit, Kenya
(Credit: Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History)
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The insect that kills 1m people a year

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Fruit bats are Nipah’s natural host (Credit: Getty Images)
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The other virus that worries Asia

By Harriet Constable
One of Duong’s team works with a sample of bat urine (Credit: Sa Sola)
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