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Rare South American Diseases Offer Clues on the Next Pandemic

Published by New York Times World By Zane Irwin, Lucía Cholakian Herrera and Sebastián López Brach · 21 August 2026 at 12:00
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Rare South American Diseases Offer Clues on the Next Pandemic
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Ebola virus, hantavirus and the pathogen that causes Covid-19 likely jumped from animals to humans. So do these viruses — and scientists say climate change is speeding their spread.

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