Allo allo allo what have we here?

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Going to the Source to Prevent Viral Disease Outbreaks

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1/4/2018

@jhas5 @rubic3n @BillyBostickson

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"When you consider the VIDs that emerged and reemerged around the world in 2017, what many of them have in common is that they originated in animals and spilled over into humans after a series of mutations that enable the pathogens to jump

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PREEMPT aims to advance understanding of viruses and their interaction with animals, insects, and humans, and deliver new, proactive interventions to reduce the risk from emerging and reemerging pathogens.

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“DARPA wants to reorient preparedness efforts to make them more proactive, so that instead of only modeling the trajectory of an epidemic as it spreads from H2H, we contain and suppress diseases in the animal species in which they originate before they can jump into people.”

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PREEMPT will have 2 technical thrusts: development of multiscale models and test beds to quantify the imminent emergence and reemergence of human pathogens; and development of new, scalable approaches to preventing pathogen spillover and transmission from animals and vectors