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The hantavirus outbreak

The hantavirus outbreak

in the Four Corner’s region in 1993 saw 13 deaths. The biodiversity collections of UNM’s Museum of Southwestern Biology have played a lead role in efforts to integrate museum specimens, such as the deer mouse, into emerging disease responses.

Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Natural history museums

Natural history museums

could play a key role in the next pandemic.

How natural history collections can predict the next pandemic

UNM’s Museum of Southwestern Biology could play key role

By Steve Carr June 24, 2020

Categories: Front Page College of Arts & Sciences Biology Research

Tags: research Museum of Southwestern Biology

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