These scientists saw a pandemic coming. Now they’re trying to stop the next one.

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By Shannon OsakaApr 29, 2020, 3:59 am98 pts
It was late one night in January 2009, and Jonathan Epstein was standing on the roof of an abandoned storage depot near Khulna, Bangladesh, with the writer and journalist David Quammen along with a small team of veterinarians. The group was in Bangladesh on a strange errand: They were catching bats. It had been…

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