How Studying Bats Can Help Predict and Prevent the Next Pandemic — ProPublica
Funders thought watching bats wasn’t important. Then she helped solve the mystery of a deadly virus.
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Funders thought watching bats wasn’t important. Then she helped solve the mystery of a deadly virus.
Island-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me that someone would do this,” says one former judge.
The forests around the epicenter of the world’s worst Ebola outbreak are getting patchier. The next pandemic could emerge from the edges around these patches, where wildlife and humans mix.
In Madagascar, a nonprofit called Health in Harmony is showing the world a new way to prevent outbreaks caused by deforestation. Many funders can’t wrap their heads around it.
The next deadly pandemic is just a forest clearing away. But we’re not even trying to prevent it.