How do you persuade philanthropists to pay $1 million for every pathogenic human virus you discover? Anjali Nayar talks to 'virus hunter' Nathan Wolfe in Cameroon to find out.
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Anjali Nayar is an International Development Research Centre fellow at Nature. Click here for a Nature video on Nathan Wolfe and virus hunting in Cameroon.
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Nayar, A. Emerging disease: Looking for trouble. Nature 462, 717–719 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/462717a
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