Animal-to-human diseases could be right at home

From Toronto, at a meeting of the American Society for Microbiology

A new map depicting where severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) or Ebola might erupt next highlights North America and Western Europe as likely locations.

Developed by Peter Daszak of the Consortium for Conservation Medicine in New York City, the map draws on growing knowledge of how pathogens hop from animals to people, a process called zoonosis.