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YSPH Hosts Animal Diseases Conference
Infectious–disease experts, zoologists and biostatisticians from Cambridge to Kazakhstan convened at the Yale School of Public Health April 3 and 4 for its first conference on zoonoses, infectious diseases with the potential to spread from animals to humans. Rabies, Lyme disease, Ebola virus and avian flu were just a few of the illnesses discussed over the two days, through the lenses of both forecast modeling and surveillance and intervention.