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1. Featured
  
  Can Anything Stop Bird Flu? (opens in a new tab)
  
  New York Magazine March 10, 2025
  
  Related paper The global H5N1 influenza panzootic in mammals
2. Which wild animals carry the COVID-19 virus? An ambitious U.S. project aims to find out (opens in a new tab)
  
  Science April 29, 2024
3. Featured
  
  Bird flu virus has been spreading among US cows for months, RNA reveals (opens in a new tab)
  
  Nature April 27, 2024
  
  Related paper The global H5N1 influenza panzootic in mammals
4. Featured
  
  Potential Research Priorities to Inform U.S. Readiness and Response to Avian Influenza A (H5N1): Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief (opens in a new tab)
  
  National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 2024
  
  Related paper The global H5N1 influenza panzootic in mammals
5. Featured
  
  TWiV 1051: Like SARS-CoV-2 in the headlights (opens in a new tab)
  
  This Week in Virology October 8, 2023
  
  Related paper Accelerated evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in free-ranging white-tailed deer
6. Heard on Campus: Martha Nelson on the SARS-CoV-2 virus in deer (opens in a new tab)
  
  Penn State University June 6, 2023
7. Featured
  
  To thwart the next pandemic, 'swientists' hunt for flu viruses at U.S. hog shows (opens in a new tab)
  
  Science October 27, 2022
  
  Related paper A Heterogeneous Swine Show Circuit Drives Zoonotic Transmission of Influenza A Viruses in the United States
8. 100-year-old pandemic flu viruses yield new genomes (opens in a new tab)
  
  Nature July 6, 2022
9. Scientists count the career costs of COVID (opens in a new tab)
  
  Nature November 10, 2021
10. The long journey to resolve the origins of a previous pandemic (opens in a new tab)
  
  The Scientist September 2, 2021
11. Over the baby bump (opens in a new tab)
  
  Science August 6, 2021
12. Swine flu strain with human pandemic potential increasingly found in pigs in China (opens in a new tab)
  
  Science March 29, 2021
13. The Next Pandemic: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (opens in a new tab)
  
  HBO February 14, 2021
  
  Advisory role: Nelson advised on this segment and is listed in the credits.
14. Tracking the UK SARS-CoV-2 outbreak (opens in a new tab)
  
  Science February 12, 2021
15. The challenges of vaccine strain selection (opens in a new tab)
  
  eLife October 13, 2020
16. Coronavirus Deaths Pass One Million Worldwide (opens in a new tab)
  
  The New York Times September 28, 2020
17. Featured
  
  How COVID-19 Took Hold in North America and Europe (opens in a new tab)
  
  Global Biodefense September 22, 2020
  
  Related paper The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in Europe and North America
18. Featured
  
  The next pandemic could come from factory farms (opens in a new tab)
  
  Vox August 18, 2020
  
  Related paper When Pigs Fly: Pandemic influenza enters the 21st century
19. Featured
  
  Human Viruses Can Jump into Animals, Too — Sowing the Seeds of Future Epidemics (opens in a new tab)
  
  Scientific American May 20, 2020
  
  Related paper Reverse zoonosis of influenza to swine: new perspectives on the human-animal interface
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