672 - What Studying The Nipah Virus Can Tell Us About Investigating Spillover Events

<p data-pm-slice="1 1 []">Nipah virus is a lethal zoonotic disease that passes from bats to humans in what are called "spillover events." But it’s still not known for sure how outbreaks happen, which makes prevention difficult. Epidemiologist <strong>Emily Gurley</strong>, who has studied Nipah outbreaks in Bangladesh for nearly 20 years, talks with <strong>Lindsay Smith Rogers</strong> about her work tracking the virus’s transmission and the enormous amount of multi-disciplinary resources and complexity required to investigate spillover events.</p>