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Emergent Diseases in a Small World: Lessons from the AIDS Pandemic WP33-2003 - 29.12.2003 Ricard V. Solé, Elisabetta Broglio and Rickard Sandell Over the past few decades, the concepts of ‘emergent diseases’ and ‘emergent viruses’ have attracted the attention of both scientists and politicians as a new threat to the economic and social stability of our world (Morse, 1993; Garrett, 1994). Not surprisingly, these two concepts are associated with other sources of environmental change, including the increasing evidence of an accelerated modification of our current climate and the degradation of the world’s ecosystems.
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