Primate disease field guide covers critical gap in global health

Why are so many infectious diseases jumping from animals to humans? Why do we have so little capacity to predict epidemics, or avoid them? Some answers, and possible solutions, can be found in the first trench-to-bench guide to wild primate infectious diseases, published Nov. 17 in the Yearbook of Physical Anthropology.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news146234280.html">Primate disease field guide covers critical gap in global health</a></p> <p>Why are so many infectious diseases jumping from animals to humans? Why do we have so little capacity to predict epidemics, or avoid them? Some answers, and possible solutions, can be found in the first trench-to-bench guide to wild primate infectious diseases, published Nov. 17 in the <I>Yearbook of Physical Anthropology</I>.</p>