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seems to me that technology (along with an army of grad students) can go a long way to dealing with this inevitability by cataloging the genomes of every animal pathogen they can find.
We definitely need more grad students. :)
And more technology. Good point.
From a lady shaking the hands of a cook who prepared a pig that ate a banana that had fallen from the mouth of a bat, whose home was destroyed by a colleague of the lady who was bulldozing.
It all starts with the bulldozer.
At least, that's how it happens in Contagion at any rate. :)
2:43 PM Oct 19 2012