Pandemics
May 29 2008, Nick

The vigorous international trade in exotic pets such as monkeys, crocodiles and rats must be stopped if human beings are to be protected from global pandemics, according to Dorothy Crawford, Professor of Medical Microbiology and a Fellow of the Academy...

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