Introduction to The Impact of Infectious Disease on Humans and our Origins Symposium

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(1:35 - Introduction - Pascal Gagneux) 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 viaa 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 humanhost populations. This symposium will explore how infectious agents and humans have shaped each other over the eons. Recorded on 05/16/2020. [Show ID: 36048]

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I was just researching information on rats and I stumbled upon an Australian article from 2019 about Leptospirosis. Could you give a lecture/opinion about it. I think it's been around since the early 1600's or possibly before. It's quite terrifying if you ask me. Around 1.03 million human cases in the world are reported a year with 68, 900 ending in deaths.

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