Emerging disease: Looking for trouble

How do you persuade philanthropists to pay $1 million for every pathogenic human virus you discover? Anjali Nayar talks to 'virus hunter' Nathan Wolfe in Cameroon to find out.

• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  2009-12-09

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science, History

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1038/462717aPMID 20010663PMCID 7095381
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

• The origin of malignant malaria

  2009cited by this paper
• Emergence of unique primate T-lymphotropic viruses among central African bushmeat hunters

  2005cited by this paper
• Naturally acquired simian retrovirus infections in central African hunters

  2004cited by this paper
• Naturally acquired simian retrovirus infections in central African hunters.

  2004cited by this paper

• Bringing together emerging and endemic zoonoses surveillance: shared challenges and a common solution

  2012cites this paper
• Metagenomics and future perspectives in virus discovery

  2012cites this paper