Hunting With The Global Viral
by Brent Stirton
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Hunting With The Global Viral
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Brent Stirton
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Photograph - Photography
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NYABISSAM, CAMEROON - JULY 27: Dr. Nathan D. Wolfe, left, an American virologist at work in the forests of Nyabissam, Cameroon, July 27 2011. Wolfe is currently Director of the Global Viral Forecasting Initiative and the Lorry I. Lokey Visiting Professor in Human Biology at Stanford University. Dr. Wolfe spent over eight years conducting biomedical research in both sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. In 2007, he founded the Global Viral Forecasting Initiative with the goal of developing an early warning system for pandemics to monitor the transmission of infectious diseases from animals to humans. The initiative currently coordinates a staff of over 100 scientists in China, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, DR Congo, PR Congo, Lao, Gabon, Central African Republic, Malaysia, Madagascar and Sao Tome. He also directs Global Viral Forecasting Inc. which offers both governmental and corporate services for biological threat evaluation and management. He is seen with a local hunter in the forest of Nyabissam, Cameroon as the hunter checks and prepares small animal snares deep inside the forest. Wolfe has a long history with these small animal hunters with whom he collaborates in obtaining vital blood samples to monitor emerging Pathogens which may be harmful to both humans and wildlife. Small mammals can be reservoirs for new and emerging infectious diseases. The most famous example of this is the the HIV Virus which emerged from Chimp DNA which combined with that of the monkeys the Chimps ate. Blood to blood contact between Chimps hunted for food and human's who becames infected through contact with infected chimps. Wolfe's mission is to guard the frontline of infectious disease, searching for the next pandemic, serving the frontline in the war against the next super-virus. (Photo by Brent Stirton/Getty Images.)
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