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A new study predicts regions that could be hotspots for the next pandemic disease.
A new study published in the Feb. 21 edition of Nature predicts countries concentrated along the equator in areas such as Southeast Asia, India and Bangladesh, West Africa, Southern Brazil, and some parts of Europe and North America could be hotspots for the next pandemic disease.
Credit: Zina Deretsky, National Science Foundation
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