Wondering what the next SARS or Zika-like disease heading our way might be? At a conference this past weekend in the Austrian capital, a leading researcher made some predictions.
Kevin Olival, the associate vice president for research at the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance, used a formula that takes into account the number of animal species a virus can infect and the number of vectors — think types of mosquitoes or ticks — that can transmit it.
