Fun video on animal -> human disease

Diseases Jumping from Animals to Humans: Recording

At the 2016 Joseph Leiter Memorial Lecture, guest speaker Jonna Mazet, DVM, MPVM, PhD, talked about her specialty -- diseases that jump from animals to humans. "Most of the infectious diseases that we see today like Ebola, MERS, even Zika originated from an animal host," she told the audience. "How can we stop them or stop them from expanding their range?" The recording of Dr. Mazet's lecture is available from the NIH Videocast site. 

One takeaway: each pandemic costs as much as it would take to research prevention