then mutated and became infectious to humans. But vigorous responses by public-health officials, as well as plain luck, limited its impact. If H1N1 had been more virulent, it would have killed millions of people,the Stanford biologist Nathan Wolfe told me at the time.Maybe tens of millions. Once i
current crisis. He was working for a company that aimed to head off pandemics, such as H1N1 flu and SARS. At San Francisco-based Metabiota, formerly called Global Viral Forecasting, founded by well-known virus hunter Nathan Wolfe, Fair conducted lots of medical diplomacy work for the US government.
foreshadow the current crisis. He was working for a company that aimed to head off pandemics, such as the H1N1 flu and SARS. At San Francisco-based Metabiota, formerly called Global Viral Forecasting, founded by well-known virus hunter Nathan Wolfe, Fair conducted lots of medical diplomacy work for the U.S.
Does modern life make us more susceptible to modern pandemics? We asked virologist Nathan Wolfe, author of The Viral Storm and a National Geographic Emerging Explorer, to explain what we know and don't know about this deadly new virus. Wolfe, the founder and executive chair of Global Viral and a vis
ses have died, it may be that only sicker individuals are being identified. Individuals who have milder symptoms may not come to hospitals and [may] be less likely to be identified if so, the current 50% mortality rate may be an overestimate, virologist Nathan Wolfe told National Geographic.
"What this suggests is that the disease may be transmissible from person to person, though it's most likely to have originated from some other source," said Nathan Wolfe, a co-author who heads a California health company, Global Viral Forecasting.