Essay Health & Medicine

The fight against infectious diseases is still an uphill battle

Pathogens are exploiting new conditions to emerge in new places

uphill battle

UPHILL BATTLE  Urban living, industrial farming techniques and climate change are fueling infectious diseases, experts say.

David Curtis

By Sonia Shah

- More than 2 years ago

It was barely more than half a century ago that the Nobel Prize–winning virologist Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet mused about the demise of contagions.