How do pandemics begin? There's a new theory — and a new strategy to thwart them
NPR, February 15, 2023
Scientists really haven't had the tools — or funding — to detect new viruses inside people, said Dr. Gregory Gray, who's an infectious disease epidemiologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. “We probably have novel viruses in North America infecting people who work a lot with animals, especially domestic animals,” he said. “We're just missing them because we don't often have the tools to pick them up.”