Pandemic 'hotspots' located in study

The next most likely occurrence of a major pandemic will probably be in an overcrowded region of the world where humans have contact with wildlife a study has revealed.

Researchers from four major institutions, the University of Georgia along with scientists from the Consortium for Conservation Medicine, the Institute of Zoology (London) and Columbia University, have published a three-year investigation in the journal Nature which has issued a map of pandemic "hotspots" of the world where the team predict infectious diseases are more likely to occur.

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