Infectious Disease and Human Origins - Nissi Varki, Amanda Lewis

(01:35 - Are there human-specific infectious diseases?, 19:53 - The microbiome and infections of the reproductive tract in human females) Infectious diseases have profound influences on the evolution of their host populations. In the case of humans, the host species has also shaped pathogen dynamics and virulence via a multitude of factors from changes in social organization, group size, and exploitation of varied habitats and their animals and plant resources to agriculture, technology, rapid long-distance travel, medicine and global economic integration - which all continue to shape epidemics and the human host populations. This symposium will explore how infectious agents and humans have shaped each other over the eons. [7/2020] [Show ID: 36036]

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