#KUFieldWorks: Monitoring bat viruses to prevent the next pandemic
In a remote, mountainous rainforest in Central America, researcher Jocelyn Colella and colleagues recently conducted fieldwork monitoring zoonotic diseases. In this Q&A from the Office of Research, the KU professor discusses how most emerging diseases in humans come from nonhuman mammals and how her work's aim is to identify zoonotic pathogens in the wild — before they find us.