Nipah Virus Electrograph (via CDC’s Public Health Image Library)

The Next Pandemic After This One and the Next One After That

I’m an epidemiologist, and this is what keeps me up at night.

In 2011, the movie Contagion did a superb and very realistic job of describing how the world would react if a pandemic occurred. In that movie, a colony of bats is disturbed by deforestation, and one of the bats makes its home above some pigs. The bad…