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Slack / Private Message Drop, pp.40-41 [SLACK_000254] · slack_pm:msg:00397

Date: 2020-05-26 13:01
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recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Robert F. Garry

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"Although PREDICT almost certainly discovered hundreds of potential zoonoses, their true zoonotic potential is almost impossible to assess, leading to the surprising statistic that the programme only led to one conclusive discovery of a zoonosis, the Bas-Congo virus.7"

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A single line often inverts meaning once you see what it answers, so neighbouring messages are always shown.

2020-05-26 12:27 Kristian G. Andersen open

:thinking_face: [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2020-05-26 at 12.26.26.png]
2020-05-26 12:27 Kristian G. Andersen open

:man-facepalming:
2020-05-26 12:59 Robert F. Garry open

The dots just keep coming. I mean what are he odds that the Batwoman [of course, not the "actual" Batwoman - the one in a long-term relationship with the woman who becomes the Question] is the same age as the first known case?
2020-05-26 13:01 Robert F. Garry

"Although PREDICT almost certainly discovered hundreds of potential zoonoses, their true zoonotic potential is almost impossible to assess, leading to the surprising statistic that the programme only led to one conclusive discovery of a zoonosis, the Bas-Congo virus.7"
2020-05-26 13:01 Robert F. Garry open

• 7.Branco LM Garry RF *Bas-Congo virus - not an established pathogen.* _Science._ 2018; (published online Dec 3.)
2020-05-26 13:03 Robert F. Garry open

From PREDICT to prevention, one pandemic later
2020-05-26 13:03 Robert F. Garry open

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(20)30002-1/fulltext#back-bib7

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