... that viruses are capable of rapid evolution, which allows them to overcome antibiotics, and that humanity's disruption of ecosystems threatens to unleash new viruses. He notes that during the first widespread use of antibiotics following World War II, medicine was able to subdue tuberculosis, syphilis and pneumonia-all of which could then be cured with pills or shots if caught in time. But some ... still behave themselves as if they were apart from nature. And the idea that we are somehow apart from the forces of evolution is part of our weakness in the war on disease. We have failed to...

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