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How do pandemics begin? There's a new theory — and a new strategy to thwart them

By NPR  
   February 15, 2023

One way scientists have described it is that a virus spilling over is, in a way, winning the lottery: The virus is in the right place at the right time, and on top of that, it has special, rare characteristics that allow it to infect people.

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