Mirage News: “We’re more likely to detect pathogens in the places where we spend a lot of time and effort looking, with a disproportionate number of studies focusing on charismatic animals at zoos or in close proximity to humans” said Anna Fagre, a virologist and wildlife veterinarian at Colorado State University, who was lead author on the study. “It brings into question which cross-species transmission events we may be missing, and what this might mean not only for public health, but for the health and conservation of the species being infected.”

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