NOT A FAIR FIGHT: “Viruses Don’t Play By Our Rules,” Says MacPhail | NLM in Focus

NOT A FAIR FIGHT: “Viruses Don’t Play By Our Rules,” Says MacPhail | NLM in Focus

NOT A FAIR FIGHT: “Viruses Don’t Play By Our Rules,” Says MacPhail

03/14/2018 04:30 PM EDT

Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it, or so the saying goes. So what can past worldwide pandemics teach us about future deadly outbreaks and the systems we’ve developed to combat them? Dr. Theresa MacPhail, a medical anthropologist who lived in China just after a deadly virus struck there, visited NIH…