Thought Leadership

SARS, BSE and West Nile aren't just making headlines, they're making history. These diseases are truly products of our age - an age of global transport, industrialized agriculture and global warming. And they represent the tip of the iceberg in terms of emerging diseases.

Humans today are pushing every conceivable ecological boundary. We are displacing animal habitats, feeding meat products to herbivores, dining on exotic predators and doing it all while rushing madly about the planet in cars, boats and jet airplanes. We are everywhere and meddling in everything. As a result, we are being exposed to "new" diseases that have never before infected humans.

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