2015 Baker Institute News: Colin Parrish organizes workshop on epidemic viruses

Abstract

This news item is about: Pandemic Influenza, West Nile virus in the USA, Severe Acute Respiratory syndrome (SARS), Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), Ebola virus. These are just a few of the viral diseases that have passed from animals to humans to cause epidemics without any warning. Dr. Colin Parrish studies of animal viruses at the Baker Institute address these topics involving viruses of animals, and now he coordinated a workshop on the emergence of new epidemic viruses in Rockville, MD, August 3-5, 2015. The meeting was supported by the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the NIH, as well as by the Baker Institute for Animal Health.